Virtual Community Calendar: Week of June 21

BlackPast.org - To Understand the Present, You Must Enter the Past

BlackPast.org is a one-stop shop for everything you want to know about African-American history. Chock full of robust, easy to use features and one of a kind facts and information, everyone will find something of value in this amazing website. Watch this brief video to learn more. Visit the

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Source: Black Past

Man accused of engaging cops in shootout freed

Cornel Wilkins, who was accused of engaging the police in a shoot-out, injuring one of the cops, has been freed by the Gun

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

ZOSO imposed in Greenwich Town

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced a Zone of Special Operation (ZOSO) in Greenwich Town, St

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Cops bring relief to destitute senior citizen

Eight-six-year-old Lucius Nathaniel Binns was a picture of happiness after receiving a mattress, courtesy of the St Catherine North

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Families birth businesses from farmers’ market resale

Alexandria Rodriques and her 16-year-old sister, Amanda, have tapped business opportunities out of farmers’ markets by buying bulk produce at low cost and retailing, on order, to established

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

'Insecure' Season 4 Finale Proved Black Women's Friendships Are Irreplaceable

when we thought Molly and Issa were toast, Insecure’s season 4 finale proved us

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

‘Insecure’ episode 7 recap: Molly doesn’t unpack her oversized baggage and it bursts at the seams

Molly’s packing for a baecation with Andrew, where she’ll meet his brother and

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Source: theGrio

New PBS NewsHour Weekend Special | Dallas Weekly

America in Black and Blue 2020, a new PBS NewsHour Weekend special, offers context for and insight into the widespread protests currently engulfing the nation after the latest display of police brutality against Black

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Honda and Historically Black Colleges and Universities Join Together to Combat the Pandemic

At the end of March, nearly 250 students and coaches from 48 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were set to travel to California to compete for the national championship title in the 31st annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC), America’s premier academic competition for

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Jamaican medical student in Cuba readies for Spanish Town Hospital mission

THOUGH restricted in movement by the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba-based Jamaican medical student Oraine Darren Lynch is biding his time, as he prepares for a final-round push towards a mission that will decide his

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

We have done our best to manage COVID-19 – Greene

While new concerns looming about the nation’s capacity to contain a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 with the gradual reopening of the island’s borders, Errol Greene, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), believes his administration is in a state of readiness to give of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

DJ Spinderella Admits She Didn’t Use Her Voice During Her Decades with Salt-N-Pepa

However, those familiar with the group’s history know them to be a trio, with its third member the DJ Deidra “DJ

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Hello mi neighbour | Activate the spirit of philanthropy

However, some bright sparks, in the midst of this pandemic, pandemonium and panic, are persons who will give every penny they own to help improve the lot of another

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Spinderella Says She Wasn’t Using Her Voice When She Was In Salt-N-Pepa

It’s no secret that DJ Spinderella has issues with her former group members Sandra “Pepa” Denton and Cheryl

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Source: MadameNoire

COVID-19 influences KSAMC hurricane preparations

THE Disaster Committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is reporting that it is prepared for the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season despite changes to its operations brought on by the COVID-19

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Fenty, Adrian M. (1970- )

Adrian Malik Fenty was born to Philip and Jan Fenty, an interracial couple, on December 6, 1970, in Washington, D.C. Fenty’s parents were both runners and they owned the athletic shoe store Fleet Feet in Washington, D.C. Fenty graduated from Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in Washington. While

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Source: Black Past

Sewell, Terri (1965- )

Terryinca “Terri” Sewell, the current U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 7th district, was born January 1, 1965 in Huntsville, Alabama to Andrew and Nancy Sewell. Sewell grew up in Selma, Alabama where both of her parents were employed by the local school district. Her

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14 years later, a dad longs for lost child

ALTHOUGH IT has been 14 years since his five-year-old daughter was mowed down by a gunshot victim as she stood waiting on her dad, the pain is still fresh for Sheckton

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Otis Williams Talks Music And History | Afro

Williams’ journey from Texarkana, Texas to Motown and global superstardom, is chronicled in his acclaimed autobiography, “Temptations,” written with The New York Times best-selling author Patricia Romanowski, as well as “The Temptations,” an Emmy Award-Winning television

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

PBS Celebrates Pride Month with PRIDELAND, a Short-Form Digital Series and New One-Hour Special with Host and Actor Dyllón Burnside, Exploring LGBTQ+ Identity in the U.S. South

Digital episodes premiered May 26 on PBS Voices, a new documentary-focused YouTube channel from PBS Digital Studios; one-hour broadcast special premieres Friday, June 12 at 9:00 pm ET on PBS

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Source: Delivering News You Can Use

St Andrew man charged in relation to $250,000 robbery

Twenty-six-year-old Kemar Whyte, otherwise called ‘Brief Man’, a scrap metal worker of Riverton Meadows, St Andrew has been charged with robbery with aggravation and illegal possession of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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Carmelo Anthony teams with Macy's & Nickelodeon for New Boys Line

Macy’s has teamed up with Nickelodeon and NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony to introduce, TMNT x Melo a high-octane line of boys’ apparel and accessories inspired by the beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Channeling the fearless energy of the crime-fighting foursome, the limited-time capsule

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Source: Savoy Network

A GOLDEN SURPRISE!

A move to make the Golden Age Home in St Andrew an arm of the Local Government Ministry, based on an International Monetary Fund (IMF) recommendation five years ago, has hit a major

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

'We are not okay'

A number of the island's district constables (DCs) is crying foul over the “poor” treatment they say is being meted out to them by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), even as the group celebrates District Constable

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Water disruption in rural St Andrew; Trelawny communities to brace for lock off

Residents of rural St Andrew communities served by the Castle James pumping station, will remain without water until late this evening due to electro-mechanical problems at the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Anthony Hamilton Connects us All with Hit New Single, “Back Together” Featuring Rick James

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

Temptations’ Otis Williams Talks Music, History, and the Temps’ 60th Anniversary – The Mississippi Link

The Temptations’ Otis Williams joined BlackPressUSA for an exclusive live interview to discuss music, history and social

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Source: The Mississippi Link

Uganda: Two KCCA Officials Interdicted Over Collapsed Building

Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) acting executive director Andrew Mubiru Kitaka has interdicted two Makindye Division officials over a building that collapsed in the area last week and killed 13

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Source: allAfrica.com

Barbara Jordan was born

Congresswoman, Barbara Jordan was born, 1936

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