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Shipt Logo Now Tops Birmingham’s Tallest Building

Shipt, the online grocery-delivery service founded in Birmingham in 2014 that has since grown into a nationwide force, needed the helicopter to carefully place its shiny green logo on top of the old SouthTrust

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Man who pointed bow and arrow at protests now behind bars

Brandon McCormick aims bow and arrow at protesters in Salt Lake

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Source: theGrio

Bill Banning Police From Using Deadly “Sleeper Hold” Introduced in California Assembly

By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Trump rally on Juneteenth in Tulsa called 'slap in the face'

OKLAHOMA CITY — Black community and political leaders are calling on President Donald Trump to at least change the date of an Oklahoma rally kick-starting his return to public campaigning, saying that holding the event on Juneteenth, the day that marks the end of slavery in America, is a “slap in

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

“Acknowledging Your Privilege and Becoming an Ally”: a Guide to Resources for White Folks

Music Supervisor Rob Lowry (Twitter: @robertlowry) was recently inspired by Han Martin‘s (Twitter: @hnicolemartin) “Resources for White Family” post to create his own version of a letter and resources to White friends and family and tweet it to anyone who wanted

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

New Book Celebrates the Girl Power That Launched Kamala Harris

It is this legacy of dynamic, change-making women that Maya’s daughter Meena Harris, also a lawyer and founder of the Phenomenal Phenomenal Woman activism campaign and lifestyle brand, draws upon when discussing the inspiration behind her first book, Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea, due for release by

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Health care equipment shortages lead to innovation, conflict

At one point, more than 30% of U.S. healthcare workers had two weeks of N95 face masks, considered the standard for protection, remaining, and 22% had none at all, according to GetUsPPE.org, a grassroots organization working to source personal protective equipment for U.S. healthcare

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Source: South Florida Times

Minneapolis council majority backs disbanding police force

MINNEAPOLIS, USA (AP) — A majority of the members of the Minneapolis City Council yesterday said they support disbanding the city's police department, an aggressive stance that comes just as the state has launched a civil rights investigation after George

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Choppy waters are ahead for cruise industry

SOME cruise lines are hoping to set sail later this summer but with images of coronavirus-ravaged ships still fresh in many minds, the industry could face years of choppy water

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

NFL Commissioner Encourages Teams to Hire Colin Kaepernick – Free Press of Jacksonville

By Jeanette Torres-Perez, ABC News (NEW YORK) — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday said he would “welcome” Colin Kaepernick back into the league and would “encourage” a team to sign the 32-year-old quarterback.Kaepernick has not taken the field since 2016, when he first started kneeling

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Rising Country Star JT Harker Releases New Single “Drunk People”

Country singer continues to gain followers and streams with each new song

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Snoop Dogg Thought His Criminal Record Kept Him from Voting But Learned He Was Wrong

“I ain’t never voted a day in my life, but this year I think I’ma get out and vote because I can’t stand to see this punk in office one more year,” said Snoop about Trump around the 11:50 mark of the June

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Three African Americans Step Into Top California Leadership Roles

Yolanda Richardson and Adetokunbo “Toks” Omishakin, are officially assuming their roles as state government executives in Sacramento at a time when the state is implementing deep cuts to its fiscal year 2020-21 budget in response to the global COVID-19

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Health experts fear second wave of coronavirus cases

LOS ANGELES — California, where health experts warn of a potential second wave of the coronavirus as the economy reopens, is seeing cases rise at a rapid clip, even as other states have seen the first wave fade, it was reported June

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Source: Homepage -

Covered California Providing Health Care Coverage During COVID-19 Pandemic to Affected Californians

Los Angeles News Observer via Covered California News

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

California Highway Patrol Shoot, Kill Man in East Oakland in Latest Local Incidence of Police Brutality

As calls to defund the police intensified nationwide, protestors demanded justice this week for Erik Salgado, 23, a Hispanic man shot and killed in East Oakland by California Highway Patrol officers on Saturday night after officers fired dozens of rounds at the car he was

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Chair Bass, Senators Booker and Harris, and Chair Nadler Introduce the Justice in Policing Act of 2020

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Karen Bass (D-CA), Senators Corey Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA), and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduced the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, the first-ever bold, comprehensive approach to hold police

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

I Was Just Thinking: So Now Can We Hire Kaepernick Back?

Football great Colin Kaepernick’s take-a-knee gesture is now famous as a rallying cry around the world against police brutality, racial injustices, and the killing of citizen George

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Source: Delivering News You Can Use

Nancy Pelosi Calls For Removing Confederate Statues From U.S. Capitol

WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday called for “immediately” removing 11 Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol, calling them “monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

Miles Bailer Armstead, 45 | Post News Group

Miles Bailer Armstead’s life tragically ended at his property in East Oakland as a result of the all-to-common violence in our

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Source: Post News Group | PNG

COMMENTARY: The Black Church Faces an Atypical Crisis

During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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Source: The New Journal and Guide

Protesters Come Out for Floyd and Others

Floyd was handcuffed while lying prone on the ground when Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck as two other officers had their knees on his back for nearly nine minutes causing his

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Recruiting for Good Cancels The Foodie Games and Launches Summer Gigs for Kids

The Foodie Games were creative competitions for kids to win fun goodies; R4G will instead hire kids for summer gigs to create positive and purposeful

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

NFL On Kneeling Players' Protests: 'We Were Wrong' Commissioner Says

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Source: Stories About Black History

‘First Time Smiling In the Inside’: Draya Michele Fans Fawn Over Her Beauty

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Sister of slain cop: 'Where is the outrage for a fallen officer that also happens to be African-American?'

A woman whose law enforcement officer brother was killed last month in the line of duty during ongoing nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd asked Congress on Wednesday: "Where is the outrage over a fallen officer that also happens to be

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Source: TheBlaze

Protesters Call Attention to Deaths of Two More Black Men | Afro

By Russ Bynum and Ed White

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Protests erupt across America after police murder of George Floyd – The Mississippi Link

From the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to the Streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Louisville, Atlanta, Washington, DC and New York City, and the bright lights of the Big Apple, citizens across racial lines are expressing outrage over the police killing of George

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Source: The Mississippi Link

Russell Westbrook Signs on As Executive Producer for Docuseries About the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Russell Westbrook wants to help tell the real-life story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, an infamous episode in which white mobs burned and destroyed an affluent Black area in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called Greenwood, also known as Black Wall

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Community Demands Answers After Black Man Is Found Hanging Near City Hall

Source: Bob Carey / Getty

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Source: NewsOne

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