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Protests Shift to Memorializing Floyd Amid Push for Change
ATLANTA (AP) — The tenor of the protests set off by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police has taken a turn from the explosive anger that has fueled the setting of fires, breaking of windows and other violence to a quiet, yet more forceful, grassroots call for more to be done to address
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Lawyer Says White Woman Attacked Girl Because She Was Black
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — A white woman is charged with assaulting an 11-year-old black girl in what the girl’s lawyer calls a racially motivated
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Kandi Burruss Wins Season 3 Of ‘The Masked Singer’
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Biden Meets With Black Leaders at Local Church Amid Unrest
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden met with community leaders at a predominantly African American church in Delaware Monday morning, leaving home for a second consecutive day to address exploding racial tensions that have begun to reshape the upcoming presidential
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Fed Judge Rules Florida Can’t Stop Poor Felons From Voting
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Tallahassee ruled Sunday night that Florida law can’t stop felons from voting because they can’t pay back any legal fees and restitution they
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Ferguson Elects First Black Mayor
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson voters have elected Ella Jones as the city’s first black mayor as protests over the death of George Floyd and police treatment of black communities roil the
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Minneapolis Police Face Civil Rights Probe Over Floyd Death
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The state of Minnesota on Tuesday launched a civil rights investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department in hopes of forcing widespread changes following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for minutes, even
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Obamas, Beyonce Deliver Speeches During YouTube Virtual Ceremony
LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Barack Obama said in a commencement speech Sunday that the nationwide protests following the recent deaths of unarmed black women and men including George Floyd were fueled from “decades worth of anguish, frustration, over unequal treatment and a failure to perform
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Man Who Filmed Arbery Shooting Video Charged In His Slaying
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia man whose cellphone video of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting helped reignite the case was charged with murder Thursday, making him the third person arrested more than two months after the
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Official: FBI Finds Link Between Pensacola Gunman, al-Qaida
The gunman in a deadly rampage late last year at a military base in Florida communicated with al-Qaida operatives about the attacks in the months leading up to it, U.S. officials said Monday as they laid out new details of a shooting that killed three American
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Porsha Williams Shares An Update On Her Marriage Plans
The virtual ”Real Housewives of Atlanta” reunion was full of so much drama, so much confrontation and so much tea, that weeks later there are still new clips coming out of things that didn’t make it to
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Black CNN Reporter Speaks Out After Being Arrested On-Air Amid Minneapolis Protests
According to CNN, at 5:09 a.m. local time, Omar Jimenez was reporting live on an arrest happening near a city police department precinct that protestors had burned and cops had abandoned
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NAACP Calls ‘Hate Crime’ Beating By White Men In Iowa Racially Motivated
DarQuan Jones, 22, said he was walking to his girlfriend’s house when he was attacked by the suspects around 3:25 a.m. in the south side of Des Moines, according to a police
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NNPA Exclusive: Iconic entertainer and entrepreneur, Ice Cube, speaks to the Black Press
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Tribute Broadcast Planned For Late Music Exec Andre Harrell
NEW YORK (AP) — A tribute to Andre Harrell, the influential music executive who discovered Sean “Diddy” Combs and died earlier this month, will air
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Funeral Plans For George Floyd Announced In Houston
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Starbucks Creates Own Black Lives Matter Shirt for Employees
Starbucks is creating its own Black Lives Matter shirt for employees to wear if they
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Ex-Boyfriend of ‘Black-ish’ Star Jenifer Lewis Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud
“On September 11, 2015, only hours before my mother passed away, I learned that the man I planned to build a life with was a convicted felon and con artist whose criminal career spans more than 25 years, with a special skill in swindling women,” she wrote on Instagram back in
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Ex-Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Released From US Prison
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen was released from federal prison Thursday to serve the remainder of his sentence at home, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated
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Wendy Williams Pauses Talk Show Because Of Health Condition
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wendy Williams is taking a break from her daytime talk show to receive treatment for a previously announced health
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Nation’s Streets Calmest in Days, Protests Largely Peaceful
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Protests were largely peaceful and the nation’s streets were calmer than they have been in days since the killing of George Floyd set off sometimes violent demonstrations over police brutality and injustice against African
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Pandemic Threatens To Deepen Crisis in Mental Health Care
NEW YORK (AP) — More than three weeks after Brandon Bell stopped showing up at a New York office that serves people with schizophrenia, employees finally located him at a nearby homeless
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‘Denied The Truth’ Says Son of Black Man Who Died in Custody
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The son of a black man who died in police custody in Louisiana after a videotaped altercation that appears to show officers hitting and tasing him two months ago said he feels the family has been denied the truth about what
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Biden Knocks Trump for ‘This Macho Stuff’ in Shunning Masks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden said Tuesday that wearing a mask in public to combat the spread of the coronavirus is a sign of leadership and called President Donald Trump a “fool” who was “stoking deaths” for suggesting
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