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Black America speaks. America should listen.

30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in

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Man drives his car into Seattle protest for George Floyd, shoots man

(credit: screenshot) A man drove a car into a Seattle crowd of protestors angered over the death of George Floyd and shot one of the marchers over the weekend. READ MORE: White police wash Black faith leaders, protestors’ feet Police detained an unidentified man on Sunday after he u

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George Floyd unrest prompts petition to look into Kendrick Johnson's death

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Free daily horoscope, celeb gossip and lucky numbers for 9 June, 2020

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Robert Johnson applauds former VP Biden's movement towards his reparations proposal

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Kenya: KFS Warns Kenyans Against Buying Parcels Around Ngong Road Forest

The Kenya Forest Service is warning Kenyans not to be duped into buying land within Ngong Road Forest around Sunvalley Lang'ata and surrounding areas without

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Kenya: Protesters Rally Outside U.S.s Embassy in Nairobi Over George Floyd's Death

Dozens of people gathered outside the US embassy in Nairobi Tuesday to protest over the death of an African-American man in Minneapolis police

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Arrested! ‘Karen’ Charged After Video Shows White Woman Spitting On Black Teen Protester

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End load shedding: 'Do in energy what's been done in telecoms'

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Dripped In Kente Cloth, Congressional Democrats Unveil Sweeping Police Reform Bill

On Monday members of the Congressional Black Caucus, along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, unveiled a sweeping reform bill aimed at overhauling policing in the United

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Perspective: The Death and George Floyd and Its Aftermath | Afro

Basic human rights, civil rights, and justice have been denied to George Floyd, Amadou Diallo, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, and the countless, sometimes faceless others who didn’t have their last moments exposed on mobile

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Uganda pushes back award of exploration licences

Uganda has pushed back the licensing round for five new oil blocks in the Albertine Graben to September 30, 2020, following low interest from exploration

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“We Do Not Need To Protect Them” Tika Sumpter Has A Message For Black People In Interracial Relationships

Last week, rapper Eve made headlines after she shared that she and her husband, Max Cooper, a White man, were having some uncomfortable conversations in the midst of the uprising currently taking place in this

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Bank of England says sorry for slave links as UK faces past

LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has apologized for the slave links some of its past governors had with slavery, as a global anti-racism movement sparked by the death of George Floyd forces many British institutions to confront uncomfortable truths about their

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Britain’s culture war and the Caribbean

In events eerily reminiscent of other turning points in history from South Africa to Eastern Europe, a group of protestors pulled down a statue of Edward Colston, a seventeenth century slaver and city benefactor, and threw him into the

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Opportunity Wisconsin Statement on May Jobs Report

Opportunity Wisconsin also releases new graphic outlining the tough choices Wisconsin workers continue to face as corporations get billions

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Minneapolis police to be dismantled

The police department in the US city of Minneapolis will be dismantled and rebuilt, city councillors said late Sunday, after the death in custody of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests about racism in law

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'Sorry' is too little and too late, Roger Goodell | The Atlanta Voice

As Roger Goodell, the league’s longtime commissioner, explained in a video released Friday, “we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully

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England call-up gives Thomas hope of Test career

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Rookie fast bowler Oshane Thomas says he is thrilled by his call-up for the England tour and hopes it can lay the groundwork for a successful Test

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New York State Assembly passes Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act

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Pittsburgh paper accused of censorship, stops Black reporters from protest

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How to Talk with Young Children about the George Floyd Protests

The recent protests sparked by the death of George Floyd (as well as Breonna Taylor and many other people of color) have affected families with young children in many different

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2020, the year of America's fall

The people – not just Black people – but a huge swath of America’s people – are fed up with America’s racism, spurred and nurtured by white supremacy which has given White people the false belief that they can do whatever they want

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Following Protests, Democrats To Unveil Police Overhaul Measure

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Florida sheriff tells residents to shoot looters as more rioting follows George Floyd’s death | Afro

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Rapper YG films music video at LA protest; claps back at critics

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