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Thousands of Ethiopian youth on Tuesday accompanied the body of a famed Oromo singer and songwriter to the city of Ambo in the Oromia regional state for funeral rites and burial. His body was retrieved from the St. Paulos
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Guyana’s political tragedy - Stabroek News
By D. Alissa Trotz Arif Bulkan Guyana is in a most profound crisis. The article Guyana’s political tragedy appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Experts see no proof of child abuse surge amid pandemic
NEW YORK, United States (AP) When the coronavirus pandemic took hold across the United States in mid-March, forcing schools to close and many children to be locked down in households buffeted by job losses and other forms of stress, many child welfare experts warned of a likely surge in child
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Judge warns of possible move of trial in George Floyd death : TheGrio
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge on Monday warned that he’s likely to move the trials of four police officers charged in George Floyd’s death out of Minneapolis if public officials and attorneys don’t stop talking about the case. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill stopped short of issuing a gag
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PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy launched
A centre designed to coordinate public policy and advocacy by fostering development relations between the Caribbean and Africa was launched at The University of the West Indies last Friday.Named the PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy, it has former Jamaica Prime Minister PJ Patterson
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British Scientists Begin COVID-19 Vaccination Trials In South Africa And Brazil Free Press of Jacksonville
On Wednesday, residents in South Africa and Brazil volunteered to begin the testing of a COVID-19 vaccination trial developed by the University of Oxford in Britain. The trials are starting in South Africa because it [...]
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Brooklyn Nets’ DeAndre Jordan Tests Positive For Coronavirus
The center will not be returning when the NBA season resumes in July.
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BET Awards 2020: DaBaby, Beyoncé, Roddy Rich And More Bring The Bling To Virtual BET Awards
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New COVID pre-testing requirement for some US visitors
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced new COVID pre-testing requirements for visitors to Jamaica from high-risk US states. At a press conference at Jamaica House on Monday, Holness said as of July 10, people visiting Jamaica from Florida, New...
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Netflix announces Ava DuVernay-led series on Colin Kaepernick | The Atlanta Voice
Colin Kaepernicks life story is headed to Netflix. The streaming giant announced a new limited series titled Colin in Black White, from Ava DuVernay, based on Kaepernicks high school years. Kaepernick will appear in the series and add his own voice to the project. The limited series will run for
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Grizzlies Morant Apologizes for Anti-Police Post - Black News Channel
By AP/BNC Contributor MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis Grizzlies rookie guard Ja Morant posted and deleted an Instagram photo suggesting hed replace his name with an expletive on his number 12 jersey in a protest against police. Morant apologized Sunday night, saying the message didnt accurately
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Governor-general of Jamaica suspends personal use of 200-year-old insignia due to racism - Face2Face Africa
The governor-general of Jamaica will in the meantime, no longer wear the personal insignia of the Order of St. Michael and St. George that sees a white angel stamping his foot on the head of the devil, depicted as black. On Friday, Governor-General Patrick Allen said the time had come for hitherto
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Why news organizations’ move to capitalize ‘Black’ is a win - African American News Today - EIN News
American” to “black” and “African American.” And those are just the dignified than “black.” But African American does not account for there is not uniformity among black Americans about black vs. Black over the treatment of black Americans in the wake of
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Colorado Riot Cops Used Pepper Spray to Break Up a Peaceful Violin Vigil for Elijah McClain
A peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain, who was killed last year, was broken up by riot police who shot pepper spray at the crowd.
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Candice Carty-Williams and Bernadine Evaristo Become 1st Black Authors to Win Top British Book Awards
Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo just won Book of the Year and Author of the Year at the British Book Awards, respectively, becoming the first Black authors
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French Olympic Committee denounces racist graffiti outside Sport Institute - Stabroek News
PARIS, (Reuters) The French Olympic Committee (CNOSF) has denounced racist graffiti that was found on Black athletes’ posters in front of the National Institute of Sport (INSEP) at the
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Trump to Black Americans: If you dont understand your history, you will go back to it again - African American News Today - EIN News
that his message to Black Americans demanding the removal of his message was for Black Americans, specifically, whose ancestors were a lot for the African-American community, what is your president.  Trump replied that Black Americans need to learn about
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Fox Cancels Farrakhan July 4 Special - African American News Today - EIN News
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Amy McGrath Will Face McConnell in Kentucky, and Hickenlooper Wins in Colorado
Ms. McGrath and John Hickenlooper, two moderate Democrats, prevailed in their Senate primaries on Tuesday. In Oklahoma, voters approved a Medicaid expansion.
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5 reasons we all need to be watching season 3 of The Chi right now - TheGrio
One of the things that the coronavirus pandemic has done is allowed a lot of us to be stuck in the house long enough to catch up on all those shows we never got around to checking out. To that point, streaming services like Netflix have seen huge spikes in traffic around shows that came
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Florida site of GOP convention orders wearing of masks : TheGrio
The city of Jacksonville, Florida, where mask-averse President Donald Trump plans to accept the Republican nomination in August, ordered the wearing of face coverings Monday, joining the list of state and local governments reversing course to try to beat back a resurgence of the coronavirus. Less
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Four Makhanda schools hit by Covid-19 as 9 staff, pupil test positive | News24
Four of the 19 government schools in the Eastern Cape town of Makhanda have closed after a total of 10 people tested positive for Covid-19.
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Less Than 1% of VC Goes to Black Founders, But Heres How I Raised $11 Million
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Jodian Fearon's mom wants answers
APPROXIMATELY two months after the completion of the autopsy for Jodian Fearon, the first-time mother who died after being denied access to health care at several hospitals in April, her family is yet to receive a copy of the report.The revelation was made by Fearon's mother Portia Haughton, who
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COVID-19 HAS caused numerous job losses, and, for some persons, a cut in salary. However, for Christine Brown, the pandemic has provided an economic opportunity, which has also created employment for her family members, who lost their substantive...
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WATCH | 'We can't wash our hands' - Makhanda residents have no water for Covid-19 fight | News24
"We are worried because we can't wash our hands and yet the municipality wants us to wash our hands," says one resident of an informal settlement in Makhanda.
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Shares of Carver Bancorp Inc. (CARV) are surging almost 118 percent or $6.91 in Tuesday's morning to trade at $12.78. New York-based Carver Bancorp is the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank, a federally chartered savings bank that provides consumer and commercial banking services.
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Total lockdown of Region One mooted amid surge in COVID-19 cases - Stabroek News
As Region One (Barima-Waini) becomes the epicentre of the Novel Coronavirus in Guyana with over 60 active cases, officials believe that a national intervention may be needed to have a total lockdown of the
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