WADA seeks extension of Roland Schoeman's 1-year doping ban

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WADA seeks extension of Roland Schoeman's 1-year doping ban

South African Olympian Roland Schoeman may see his current 1-year suspension extended by another 12 months.

Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Loretta Lynch is the second woman to hold the job of Attorney General; Janet Reno held the job from 1993-2001 under President Bill Clinton… Loretta Lynch married Stephen Hargrove in 2007, according to the Associated Press.

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Fear Of A Black Planet: White People Becoming Minorities In America Sooner Than Expected, New Census Data Confirms

While it has already been reported that white people were edging toward living in a country in which they would not be the majority, new data shows that may happen a lot sooner than

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Source: NewsOne

Woods, Eldrick “Tiger” (1975- )

Eldrick “Tiger” Woods was born on December 30, 1975 in Cypress, California to parents Earl and Kultida Woods. Woods was given the nickname Tiger after a Vietnamese soldier and friend of his father’s. He grew up watching his father play golf and at the age of two, he was putting with

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Black supremacy

Black supremacy or black supremacism is a racial supremacist belief that black people are superior to people of other races. The term has been used by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an American legal advocacy organisation, to describe several fringe religious groups in the United

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Nigeria: Dope - Nigeria's Paralympic Champion, Esther Onyema, Banned for Four Years

Nigeria's former Paralympic and Commonwealth Games champion, Esther Onyema, 38, has been banned four years by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for committing an anti-doping rule

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Source: allAfrica.com

Hundreds line up for George Floyd’s memorial in Houston

Mourners are guided into the Fountain of Praise Church during a public visitation for George Floyd Monday, June 8, 2020, in

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Source: theGrio

Kanye West Qualifies as Presidential Candidate in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Rapper Kanye West has qualified to appear on Utah’s ballot this November as an unaffiliated presidential candidate, an elections official said Monday. State Elections Director Justin Lee said his office has verified that West's campaign gathered the necessary 1,000 signatures

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Covid-19 could cancel 28 million surgeries

During the onset of the coronavirus in the country, elective surgeries across all government hospitals were suspended in March, forcing thousands of Kenyans in need of one or more of these scheduled surgeries to restore their lives to

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Tragedy in Minneapolis as video shows police kneeling on black man who died

Please man,” can be heard in a video that surfaced of Minneapolis officers kneeling on black man neck during an arrest which ultimately ended in his

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Louisville Restaurant Owner Was Killed By National Guard Troops, Investigation Finds

The popular owner of a Louisville barbeque eatery who was killed as authorities tried to quell police brutality protests was fatally shot by National Guard troops, a new investigation has

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Africa: Continent Set to Get Debt Relief From China

Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to cancel interest-free debt owed by "relevant" African countries as part of Beijing's move to help the continent during the Covid-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ali, Holder, rapper Nas among 2015 DuBois Medal recipients

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and rapper Nasir “Nas” Jones are among the 2015 recipients of Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois

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AFRO Archives April 11, 20130: Survivor of 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing Wants Money, Not a Medal

Now, Congress is considering conferring a top award to honor the

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Swift firings for Minneapolis officers in death of African-American man

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — To the general public, the video of a white police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a black man prone on the street, crying out for help until he finally stopped moving, was

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

Esper opposes using Insurrection Act for law enforcement

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday he opposes use of the Insurrection Act, which would allow President Donald Trump to use active-duty military forces for law enforcement duties in containing street

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Richmond Mayor Assigned Security Detail After Receiving Threats Over Removal Of Confederate Statues

He's vowed to remove statues honoring controversial figures.

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Plot thickens over origins of pope's civil union endorsement

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Questions swirled yesterday about the origins of Pope Francis' bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was never broadcast in its entirety.

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My family was robbed!

The Trump Administration has been pointing to a segment of the industry — facilities with low federal ratings for infection control — and to some Democratic governors who required nursing homes to take recovering coronavirus

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

Bill Cosby Granted Appeal in Pennsylvania Sex Assault Case

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a stunning decision that could test the legal framework of #MeToo cases, comedian Bill Cosby has won the right to fight his 2018 sexual assault conviction in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The 82-year-old Cosby has been imprisoned in suburban Philadelphia for nearly two

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Source: Black America Web

Stacey Abrams Endorses Candidates in 7 US Senate Contests

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Alongside discussions of her own national political ambitions, former Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is wading into elections outside her home state, endorsing the campaigns of seven Democrats vying for U.S. Senate

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Did Fired Cop Derek Chauvin Know George Floyd? The Two Were Once Co-Workers

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APD officer stage sickout after charges brought in Rayshard Brooks case, city on alert

Hours after the charges were announced yesterday against two Atlanta police officers in the killing of 27-year-old Rashard Brooks at an Atlanta fast-food restaurant, the Atlanta Police Department said an unusual number of officers called out sick from the late

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Black Mayor in Virginia City Receives Threats After Announcing Confederate Statue Removal - The New York Beacon

Richmond mayor Levar Stoney has reportedly been assigned bodyguards after he received numerous “serious” and “credible” threats, which surfaced after he called to remove Confederate monuments in the Virginia city amid nationwide civil unrest. Among the statues targeted for removal include those

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

Do You Want White People To Wash Your Feet?

White pastors in North Carolina washed the feet of Black pastors and apologized for racism and White supremacy. What do you think of the action? Is it helpful or performative?

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Source: MadameNoire

Black Man Dies After Video Shows Officer Kneeling on Neck

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis was seen on a bystander’s video pleading that he could not breathe as a white officer knelt on his neck during the arrest and kept his knee there for several minutes after the man stopped

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Source: Black America Web

Minnesota pardons Black man in century-old lynching case

In this May 30, 2020 photo, a protestor holds up a photo of George Floyd in front of the Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial as part of a large protest in Duluth, Minn. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via

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Source: theGrio

As Party Leaders Age, Progressive Black Democrats Take Stage

WASHINGTON (AP) — Yearning for change, a group of progressive Black Democratic congressional hopefuls is rushing toward the national stage, igniting rank-and-file enthusiasm in a party dominated by aging white

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Burundi poll count continues, 'many' opposition supporters detained

Burundi’s leading opposition candidate says more than 200 party supporters were arrested during Wednesday’s election, and he is keeping open the possibility of challenging the results over suspected

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Two DUT staff members test positive for Covid-19

The Durban University of Technology (DUT) is the latest tertiary institution in KwaZulu-Natal to confirm Covid-19 infections, with two staff members testing

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Source: https://www.news24.com

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's see-no-evil posture on coronavirus | The Atlanta Voice

President Donald Trump’s persistent see-no-evil posture on coronavirus testing — if you don’t look for the virus, the cases go away — defies both science and street

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

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