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AP/BNC Contributor ATLANTA (AP) — Tyler Perry has offered to pay the funeral expenses for an 8-year-old girl who was fatally shot in Atlanta over the weekend, a representative for the actor and filmmaker confirmed Wednesday. Im outraged today because Id rather be paying for 8-year-old Secoriea
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Texas is set to execute Billy Wardlow, who was 18 when he killed a man. Experts argue thats too young for a death sentence. | Dallas Weekly
On Wednesday evening, Texas plans to execute Billy Joe Wardlow for a 1993 East Texas robbery and murder. His lawyers are hoping the swell of the coronavirus pandemic and Wardlow’s young age at the time of the crime will persuade the courts or the governor to stop it. Wardlow was 18 when he killed
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Georgia sandwich shop workers fired after making noose out of dough and mimicking a hanging - Face2Face Africa
Sandwich restaurant chain, Jimmy John’s, has fired four of its employees in Georgia after they filmed themselves with a noose made out of dough and mimicking a hanging. The video in question was first shared on Snapchat, CNN reports. In the video which was subsequently shared across other social
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Keke Palmer believes Trump wants to incite a race war
Keke Palmer is showing off a new look and raising her voice in the latest issue of Cosmopolitan. The magazine’s... View Article The post Keke Palmer believes Trump wants to incite a race war appeared first on TheGrio.
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Kanye West Breaks with Trump, Claims 2020 Run is not a Stunt - Black News Channel
By The Associated Press undefined/ BNC Contributor NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West says he is no longer a Trump supporter. The rapper, who once praised President Donald Trump and said the two share dragon energy, tells Forbes that he is taking the red hat off — a reference to Trumps trademark red Make
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Christian Cooper Declares He Wont Cooperate In Prosecution of Central Park Karen on False 911 Report Charges, Claims Shes Suffered Enough
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Kwekwe seeks legal advice on Tsvangirai Street
KWEKWE councillors, who early this year passed a resolution to name a street after the late MDC founding icon Morgan Tsvangirai, have started seeking legal advice before implementing the decision to avoid offending Local Government minister July Moyo. BY BRENNA MATENDERE The councillors, who are
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MDC targets ‘fence-sitting’ councillors
MDC Alliance ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora has been ejected from the Bulawayo East constituency district chairmanship over his alleged questionable loyalty to the opposition party and its leadership. BY NQOBANI NDLOVU Chigora is reportedly among a group of Bulawayo councillors and legislators
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Seven men pin down black teen who later died for throwing a sandwich - Face2Face Africa
A disturbing surveillance video has emerged showing at least seven men violently restraining a black teenager, Cornelius Fredericks, at a Michigan youth center, who had a cardiac attack and died two days later. The surveillance footage from the Lakeside Academy in Kalamazoo was released Tuesday by
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Shes Already Paid A Steep Price: Christian Cooper Wont Cooperate In The Prosecution Of Central Park Karen
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NW Premier Job Mokgoro voluntarily hospitalised with COVID-19
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OP-ED: Moving Forward with Police Reform | Afro
By Leonard Hamm, Richard Hite Jr., Wendell France, Henry Martin and Barry W. Powell Police departments across the country are caught up in the public outcry for police reform. Demonstrations have taken place in major cities, not only in the United States but also in other countries such as Canada
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2 Chainz ft. Skooly “Devil Just Trying To Be Seen,” City Girls ft. Doja Cat “P*ssy Talk” & More | Daily Visuals 7.7.20
For his visuals to his Skooly assisted “Devil Just Trying To Be Seen,” 2 Chainz uses camera phone footage of the numerous police killings of unarmed Black men and the protests they inspired on the streets while he and Skooly partake film themselves in the same camera phone manner. It was pretty
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Court: Some Employers Can Refuse to Offer Free Birth Control
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled broadly Wednesday in favor of the religious rights of employers in two cases that could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception and tens of thousands of people with no way to sue for job discrimination. In both cases the court ruled
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Couple charged with hate crime for painting over Black Lives Matter mural - DefenderNetwork.com
A white couple were charged with a hate crime on Tuesday after they allegedly painted over a Black Lives Matter mural in California on the Fourth of July, prosecutors said. Video of the couple using black paint to deface the street mural went viral over the weekend, where people confronted the
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Ricardo Mthembu: ANC KZN spokesperson dies due to COVID-19
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Tyler Perry To Cover Cost Of Secoriea Turners Funeral, 8-Year-Old Girl Shot Near Scene Of Rayshard Brooks Death
"I’m outraged today because I’d rather be paying for 8-year-old Secoriea Turner’s college than her funeral. When does this end?" Perry said.
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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro Tests Positive For COVID-19 After Mocking The Pandemic For Months
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Dallas Animal Services (DAS) joins a national coalition of 13 other animal shelters in the Human Animal Support Services (HASS) pilot program to implement a new animal welfare organizational model that recognizes pets and people as family-units and works to keep them together. “The driving force
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of four Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyds death is asking to have his case dismissed. An attorney for Thomas Lane said in court papers made public Wednesday that the case against his client should be dismissed for lack of probable cause. As part of his
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Big Mac Racism at McDonald’s - Black News Channel
By Whitney Gresham and Trevor W. Coleman II at The Michigan Chronicle For more than 50 years, the McDonald’s Corporation took pride in branding itself as a socially conscious corporation particularly interested in doing business in abandoned and long-ignored Black communities while embracing racial
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Sponsored content by the University of Texas at Austin As COVID-19 continues to spread across Texas and the nation, scientists from the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Houston have created a mapping tool for
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