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South Africa: S. Africans Protest Police Brutality Against Poor Under Lockdown
The police watchdog is investigating at least 10 deaths at the hand of law enforcement under a coronavirus lockdown
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Rwanda: UN Prosecutor Confirms Death of Genocide Fugitive Augustin Bizimana
Serge Brammertz, the Chief Prosecutor of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (RMICT), which took over from the ICTR, confirmed Bizimana's death "based on the conclusive identification of Bizimana's remains in a gravesite" in Pointe Noire, the Republic of the
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This Day in History — June 16
1977: Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev is named president, becoming the first person to hold both posts
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West Africa: UNHCR Launches U.S.$186 Million Appeal for Sahel Displacement Crisis
The U.N. refugee agency is appealing for $186 million to protect and assist hundreds of thousands of civilians who have been forced to flee from escalating, increasingly brutal attacks from multiple armed groups in the volatile central Sahel
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Source: allAfrica.com
Sudan: Accused Darfur War Criminal Ali Kushayb in ICC Custody
A former militia leader accused of war crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region is now in the custody of the International Criminal
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Young Buck Released From Prison, Claims He Does Not Owe Fofty Any Cashville Coins
For those who not in the know the “Shorty Wanna Ride” rapper recently spent four months on child abandonment charges from Newton
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''Black Lives Matter'' protest hits South Africa
The end state will be the creation of an anti neo-colonial, anti-imperialist movement, anti new world order
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AMHVoices: Zanu PF shedding crocodile tears
THOSE whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make
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Nigeria: Obaseki Perfects Defection Plans As APC Crisis Worsens
Obaseki, who resigned his membership from the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, hours before the Court of Appeal affirmed the suspension of the party's National Chairman, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, held a series of meetings with his PDP colleagues and the party's National Chairman, Prince Uche
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Namibia: Probe Against Self-Confessed Rapist Drags On
Jeremia van Wyk appeared in absentia in the Katutura Magistrate's Court before magistrate Namwenyo Shikalepo
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Source: allAfrica.com
Kenya: Break the Silence, Says DCI Director on Rising Violence
The Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti has waded in to the rising cases of gender-based violence (GBV) during this time the country is battling
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RLJ Entertainment Announces Launch Of UMC - Urban Movie Channel
RLJ Entertainment, Inc., created by Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and The RLJ Companies and Chairman of RLJ Entertainment, today announced the launch of UMC – Urban Movie Channel (“UMC”), RLJE’s proprietary digital channel. UMC will feature
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Namibia: Trial of Sodomy Accused Ex-Hostel Caretaker Deferred
The 49-year-old Mervin Nguyapeua is on trial in the Windhoek High Court on 32 charges of rape and 27 alternative charges of committing sexual acts involving 10 boys younger than 16 from 2013 to
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Source: allAfrica.com
LIVESTREAM - Black music appreciation month: Russell Simmons
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) kicks off Black Music Appreciation Month with an exclusive interview with Def Jam founder Russell
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Kayapó chief dies from COVID-19 in Brazil, led protest against Amazon dam
BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s indigenous people lost one of their pioneering leaders to COVID-19 yesterday with the death of Paulinho Payakan, a Kayapó chief who led protests against the Belo Monte hydro-electric dam in the
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Bio rallies support for his state of nation address – has he done enough in two years?
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Filmmaker Oge Egbuonu Examines The True Definition Of Black Womanhood
(In)visible Portraits, Oge Egbuonu's feature directorial debut, reinforces that awareness and explores generations of otherizing Black
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Nigeria coronavirus: almost 20,000 cases; govt pays $12m hazard allowance
Confirmed cases = 19,808
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OBBO: Nkurunziza could have won gold, but left without a medal
Pierre Nkurunziza had only a few weeks to go as president of Burundi, before handing over power to his recently elected successor, Evariste
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50 Cent Trolls Ja Rule For Low Budget Ad For Local Greek Restaurant: “This Is What Happens When You F-ck With Me”
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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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Africa: The Special Court for Sierra Leone - Keys to its Success & Lessons for Today
In 2002, the government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations formally agreed to the creation of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, a so-called 'hybrid court,' to bring justice and reconciliation to the country and
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Nigeria coronavirus: 17,735 cases; six local airlines set to fly
Total confirmed cases = 17,735
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EX-NFL Player Bacarri Rambo Arrested On Rape Charge
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Minnesota Pardons Black Man in Century-Old Lynching Case
Minnesota’s pardons board on Friday granted a posthumous pardon to a black man imprisoned a century ago in the alleged rape of a white woman, part of a case that included the infamous lynchings of three other black men in
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50 Cent
50 Cent is often called by his nickname, “Fiddy”… 50 Cent says in his autobiography that he borrowed his name from a local robber, a “stickup kid from Brooklyn”… The rapper announced in March of 2003 that he’d had a special bullet-proof jacket made for his six-year-old
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Terrence Howard
Thanks to the buzz over his films Crash and Hustle & Flow, Terrence Howard had a career breakthrough in 2005 after more than a decade of stand-out performances in television and feature films. Howard began getting small roles in TV shows in the early 1990s. His appearances in feature films such
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Nigeria Records 717 Rape Cases in Five Months - Official
The police chief called on Nigerians to join in efforts to tackle rape and other sexual violence by ensuring prompt report of cases and working with the police to apprehend the
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We are all horrified, but only White people have luxury of being shocked –
Last night while my city burned and curfew fell, I sat and watched “Black Panther” and thought about what smug hypocrites White people can
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