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African Americans die more frequently from Covid-19, but poverty isn’t why - Atlanta Tribune
Black Americans are dying from Covid-19 more frequently than white people. But two researchers found it’s not because of obesity or poverty. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management professor Christopher Knittel and graduate research assistant Bora Ozaltun analyzed daily
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Source: Atlanta Tribune
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Black Wall Street - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” That quote from one of America’s most renowned Black authors and social commentators, James Baldwin, would be appropriate for hundreds of sinful scenarios perpetrated against African Americans during our
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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper
Black LGBTQ+ Leaders and Allies Applaud 3 California Bills | Post News Group
Some of the proposed laws aim to address challenges that impact various segments of the African American LGBTQ+ community -- either directly or circumstantially.  The post Black LGBTQ+ Leaders and Allies Applaud 3 California Bills first appeared on Post News Group.
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School Districts Get Kids into Summer School | BlackPressUSA
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS - The total allocation for San Bernardino City Unified School District amounts to $435 million in total stimulus relief, which also includes the first COVID CARES Act funding.| By Dianne Anderson State school districts are in for big money, precisely $15.3 billion
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DEAR BLACK MAN: Twenty-one Black men pen open letters of encouragement and brotherhood to Black men | The Atlanta Voice
As far back as history can take us Black men have always been a part of our story—some good and some challenging.  Far before the hashtags, Black men's names and narratives have been written for them and at times by them. In the following letters, 21 Black men openly share radical intimate words
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Source: The Atlanta Voice
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Stacey Abrams Deserves Flowers For Georgia’s Crucial Role In 2020 Election
Stacey Abrams deserves to be recognized for why Georgia is a swing state on the verge of making election history.
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Us’ 55 Years of Unbudging Blackness: Africa as Our Moral Ideal - Los Angeles Sentinel
Now the interrelated moral imperative to be ourselves and to free ourselves is intimately related to our commitment as advocates of Us to the principle and practice of unbudging Blackness and the deep-rooted and irreversible embrace of Africa as our moral ideal. To talk of our Blackness, again, is
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Tomorrow Is National CROWN Day, AKA, Black Hair Independence Day
July 3 marks the one-year anniversary of The CROWN Act and as such, The CROWN Coalition, a national alliance founded by Dove, the National Urban League, the Western Center on Law & Poverty, and Color Of Change has declared July 3, 2020, National CROWN Day, also known as Black Hair
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Georgia sets new early voting record for Senate runoffs - TheGrio
As early voting began for the runoff elections in Georgia, more voters took to the polls on the first day... View Article The post Georgia sets new early voting record for Senate runoffs appeared first on TheGrio.
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André 3000 Respectfully Declined Performing At Virgil Abloh’s Funeral
André 3000's new instrument is opening new doors for him. He has revealed that he was asked to perform at Virgil Abloh's funeral but he respectfully declined. As previously reported the Outkast member is on the verge of returning to the music industry but his way. This week it was announced that he
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Source: The Urban Daily
Kamala Harris' first 100 Days paints complicated political picture for Black women - TheGrio
Commemorating Kamala Harris’ 100th day as the U.S. vice president is an achievement that should be a cause for celebration.... View Article The post Kamala Harris' first 100 Days paints complicated political picture for Black women appeared first on TheGrio.
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PNM’s Marcelle hopes support translates to votes
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Tobago PNM candidate for Bethel/New Grange Downie Marcelle, left, and his wife after voting on Monday at the Bethel Community Centre. PNM candidate for Bethel/New-Grange Downie Marcelle hopes the support he received throughout the
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Why Do More Black Men Die from Prostate Cancer?
It has long been known among medical experts for a while now that Black men are at a considerably higher risk of being falling victim to prostate
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April Ryan pays tribute to Black women in new book: ‘It’s a love letter’ - TheGrio
April D. Ryan is one of the community's most celebrated journalists, who has covered five presidential administrations and is still... View Article The post April Ryan pays tribute to Black women in new book: ‘It’s a love letter’ appeared first on TheGrio.
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Black therapists on how to cope with racial trauma amid COVID-19 pandemic - DefenderNetwork.com
The first half of 2020 has been horrific for Black Americans. It began with the loss of the legendary Lakers guard Kobe Bryant. Then in March, the COVID-19 pandemic, which impacts Black Americans more adversely, changed our lives forever, killing over 130,000 Americans so far. Then, racism and its
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#WhenBlackWomenVote We Are A Force Beyond Measure
Follow MadameNoire as we look deeply at the impact of the Black women's vote in America.
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‘Get Away From All the Stereotypes’: ‘Lupin’ Star Omar Sy Hopes the TV and Film Industry Is Moving In a New Direction
The film and television industry has been more than put on notice for its need to diversify Black roles. Black actors, both in America and abroad, share a
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Derek Chauvin has been found guilty, but what about the other racist police? - Voice Online
The conviction of Derek Chauvin was a hopeful sign of a better future, but there is a cynical part of me that feels that the police officer was only convicted because the whole world was able to see what has been happening to us for years
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An African-American anthology
“Black Women in White America,” edited by Gerda Lerner, is an anthology of Black women’s personal narratives that date back to 1811. Recognizing the need for Black people to “define themselves autonomously and to interpret their past, their present and their future,” Lerner compiled this anthology
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Mathew Knowles Claims Beyoncé’s 'Unapologetically Black' Super Bowl Cost Her Endorsements: 'She Paid a Dear Price for That'
Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime show performance in 2016 remains a topic of discussion despite taking place half a decade ago. The latest spin about the […]
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Black Woman Still On Probation For Refusing To Give Up Seat On Segregated Bus In 1955
85-year-old Claudette Colvin has been on probation since 1955, after she was arrested for refusing to sit on the back of a segregated bus in Alabama.
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Malveaux: Melvin Van Peebles, creative genius | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com) - One of the first Broadway plays I ever saw was Melvin Van Peeble’sAin’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death. A. Robert Phillips, who led the Black Talent Program at Boston College, arranged for a group of us undergraduates to attend the play, have dinner, and
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CNN Reporter Threatens To Cover ‘Suburban Women’ If Paid Leave Is Left Out Of Build Back Better
A viral tweet from CNN reporter Kasie Hunt threatened to cover scorned "suburban women" -- aka white women -- who voted for Biden instead of Trump if paid family leave was left out of the Build Back Better framework. Spoiler alert: It was.
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Housekeepers Face a Disaster Generations in the Making
… . In cities like New York, African-American women lined up at spots … the Fair Labor Standards Act. African-American women had won many of …
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Bill Cosby’s wife slams #MeToo movement, says they should ‘clean up their act’ - Face2Face Africa
The wife of Bill Cosby, Camille Cosby, still has some animosity towards the #MeToo movement two years after her husband was convicted for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004. Speaking to ABC News on Tuesday in what was her first major interview in six years, Cosby slammed the
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Don't worry, mail-in ballots and Black voters might just save us from Trump : TheGrio
Before I go off: This shouldn’t have even been a tough race, but here we are. Right now, both Democratic... View Article The post Don't worry, mail-in ballots and Black voters might just save us from Trump appeared first on TheGrio.
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Meet Ernest White: The FAMU Grad Behind The Travel TV Show ‘Fly Brother’ – Free Press of Jacksonville
Although Black people have always traveled, it has only begun to surge within the last 7-10 years, largely in part to the internet and travel blogs like White’s becoming more
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Could Racially Motivated 911 Calls Become Hate Crimes?
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Africa: Racism and Self-Hate - Why Africa Is Not Innocent
Just as it was an enabler of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism, tribalism has also manifested in post-colonial Africa in the form of divisive, exclusionist, conflicting and destabilising politics of ethno-geographic identity, which has proven to be an anathema to the collective
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'The Underground Railroad' has strong performances, but fails to deliver - TheGrio
How do you make slavery boring ? Despite strong performances, Barry Jenkin's The Underground Railroad is plodding and rudderless. The... View Article The post 'The Underground Railroad' has strong performances, but fails to deliver appeared first on TheGrio.
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