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Jobs Report: What's The Unemployment Rate For Trump's First Full Month? (It's Not What Economists Expected) - Blavity

In the first full month of Donald Trump's presidency, government data shows that the U.S. added fewer jobs than expected while the unemployment rate has now increased to 4.1%. According to the data released on Friday, 151,000 workers were hired last month. Economists, however, were expecting to see 170,000 jobs added, per ABC News.

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Topics in Mental Health: Physical Abuse and African American Oppression

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Nigeria: Lagos Slashes 2020 Budget By 21% to N920.5 Billion

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Tunisia, at the northernmost bulge of Africa, thrusts out toward Sicily to mark the division between the eastern and western Mediterranean Sea. Twice the size of South Carolina, it is bordered on the west by Algeria and by Libya on the south. Coastal plains on the east rise to a north-south

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US Autoworkers Return, While Possible Vaccine Shows Promise

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S. for the first time in nearly two months Monday in one of the biggest steps yet to restart American industry, while an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus yielded encouraging results in a small and

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Africa: Meeting Africa's Liquidity Needs While Protecting Market Access - Appeal from Finance & Development Ministers

Addis Ababa — Statement co-signed by the ministers of finance and / or ministers of development of the following countries: Angola, Cameroun, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone and

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Protest in Spain over government's handling of COVID crisis

Thousands of supporters of Spain’s far-right Vox party gathered today in their cars and on motorbikes in the centre of Madrid and other Spanish cities to protest the Spanish government’s handling of the nation’s COVID-19 crisis, international news agencies

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Bowser Releases Budget Amid COVID Crisis | Afro

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In Fight Against Virus, South Africa Expects a Long Wait | Afro

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Magic Johnson Offering $100 Million To Minority-Owned Businesses Struggling Through Coronavirus Pandemic - Blavity

On MSNBC, Johnson and Rafael Martinez, MBE Captial Partners' majority owner, spoke with Al Sharpton about the program and their goal to help 100,000 minority-owned

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(1934) W.E.B. Du Bois, “A Negro Nation Within a Nation"

W.E.B Du Bois, a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) through most of his life was a staunch integrationist. In 1934 however he advanced the argument that since integration would not happen in the nation any time soon, African Americans had to

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Magic Johnson Announces $100 Million in Loans for Business Owners of Color

Since April, when the $2 trillion COVID-19 Stimulus Bill was passed and the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) began to address COVID-19’s financial hits, the first study to look at the novel coronavirus’ impact on Black and Latinx business owners, conducted by the

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Obama Emerges as Central Figure in 2020 Presidential Race

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Gary Declaration, National Black Political Convention, 1972

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Cairo, Egypt (founded c. 969 C.E.)

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National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Report), 1967

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Providing relief to cities must be priority to Congress –

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'What's The Matter With Kansas?' - A Deconstruction

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President Mugabe and Tsvangirai agreed to a power-sharing deal in September that called on the leaders to share executive authority. Under the deal, Tsvangirai will serve as prime minister and the opposition will control 16 ministries. The governing party will control 15; Mugabe will continue as

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Mangudya likens money changers to coronavirus

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Haile Selassie I

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Despite Guv's OK, Stylist Fears Reopening

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