Africa: Global Govt Debt Set to Soar to Record $71 Trillion in 2022

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Source: NewsOne

Early voting starts Monday in Texas. Here’s what you need to know.

On July 14, Texas will hold its 2020 runoff elections to decide the final spots for Democrats and Republicans on the November general election

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Biden, Trump Stage Rare Dueling Events in Pandemic Era

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Both President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, are swinging through key battleground states on Thursday, presenting dueling events in a way that hasn’t happened much in the age of coronavirus and that will showcase their contrasting styles in response to

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Minorities wanted for COVID-19 testing

In addition, sterilizing Native American women without their consent, and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, led to a justifiable fear and luck of trust by people of color regarding clinical trial participation in the

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

COMMENTARY: Counseling Helps in Adapting to a New Norm

Some people will have a combination of positive and negative responses to situations over the cycle of the

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Opinion – College Football Amid a Pandemic is Not Worth the Risk to Young Men’s Lives

That question can’t be ducked as the NCAA allows colleges to begin “voluntary” football practices, and other college teams begin to

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Fired! Nurse ‘Karen’ Loses Her Job For ‘Black Privilege’ Video Blaming George Floyd’s Death On Himself

But this time around, Karen — presented in the form of a nurse — seemed to not only be cognizant of her disdain for Black folks, but she also advertised it while recording a selfie video complaining about “Black privilege” (which, of course, doesn’t exist) and suggested George Floyd was to blame

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Source: NewsOne

Anchored in Milwaukee, 2020 Democratic National Convention will be a "Convention Across America"

The DNCC reiterated the Democratic Party’s commitment to holding a convention that would protect public health while transforming the convention experience for delegates and

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

LETTERS: MSMEs play important role in the economy

PHOTO | FILE

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Source: Business Daily

‘I CAN’T GO HOME AND TAKE MY SKIN COLOR OFF’

Black people can’t gather in large crowds because some type of violence happens, whether it’s a fight or someone getting

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Malawi opposition leader heading for election win - media

Malawi's opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera appeared headed for victory on Thursday in a re-run of a presidential vote that was scrapped over massive irregularities, unofficial tallies

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Scores of maintenance payments backlogged during lockdown

Some say they have not received maintenance payments processed by court officials since the start of the lockdown, while others, like Mthembu, have not been paid since

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Greed is killing us: Ncube

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said people could take the bond notes being rejected by the market to the bank in exchange for new notes, accusing economic saboteurs of hindering his economic revival

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

We have done our best to manage COVID-19 – Greene

While new concerns looming about the nation’s capacity to contain a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 with the gradual reopening of the island’s borders, Errol Greene, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), believes his administration is in a state of readiness to give of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

We Can’t Let This Moment Pass

I was deeply moved by the reading, and felt it was critical in this moment that a United States Senator from the Deep South stand on the Senate floor and declare that Black Lives

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Taxis in KwaZulu-Natal plan to defy lockdown regulations

As of Monday, taxis in KwaZulu-Natal plan to operate at full capacity and long-distance taxis plan to operate without permits, according to Boy Zondi, the South African Taxi Council (Santaco) provincial

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Source: https://www.news24.com

COVID-19 blamed for one-year construction delay for MoBay bypass

MONTEGO BAY, St James — The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been blamed for pushing back, by a year, the start of construction on the highly anticipated US$22-million Montego Bay bypass

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

Balto’s Northeast Market Reopens Mon June 29 | Afro

Fresh seafood, meats, produce as well as popular specialty dishes now available indoors

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

What should the West learn from China?

Fortunately, while the COVID-19 is spreading around the world, China has achieved progress in controlling the epidemic, and has gradually resumed the economic and social operations, enabling it to free up its hands to accelerate the production of epidemic prevention materials to aid those countries

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Putting Health First Despite the Pandemic | Afro

While COVID-19 might have resulted in the closing of most gyms and fitness studios, Gerard Burley, founder of SWEAT DC, is encouraging people to still move their bodies and put their health

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

CARIFORUM countries set to test ‘specialty foods’ in UK, EU markets

Still some distance away from recovering from the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Caribbean would appear to be already looking beyond that challenge and focussing on the growth of its niche markets in

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

California Senate Okays ACA 5: Affirmative Action Decision Moves to Voters

approve the amendment in November, California will join 42 states that allow

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

EDITORIAL: Address parents’ worries

FILE PHOTO | NMG

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Source: Business Daily

Last hurrah for Dunrobin Primary seniors - School-leavers go out in style in drive-through graduation

Maciann McDermott was all smiles as she waited in the procession of vehicles decorated with balloons, banners and other paraphernalia for Dunrobin Primary School’s drive-through graduation on

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Surfing Confronts Sport’s Racist Past After George Floyd’s Death – Free Press of Jacksonville

Surfer Marc Chavez, founder of the San Diego nonprofit Native Like Water, which offers surf camps for Indigenous youth, said localism is a form of racial

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

Vote could keep Putin in power until 2036

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — Polls opened in Russia yesterday for a week-long vote on constitutional changes that would allow President Vladimir Putin to stay in power until

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

This Day in History — June 26

1998: US President Bill Clinton opens a State visit to China in Tiananmen Square, where a protest movement for democracy was brutally suppressed nine years

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

House Democrats Push Toward Policing Vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a policing overhaul collapsed in the Senate, House Democrats returned to Washington for a day heavy with emotion and symbolism to vote on their sweeping proposal to address the global outcry over the death of George Floyd and other Black

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Disney Announces Redesign Of Splash Mountain After Some Call Ride Themes Racist

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Source: Stories About Black History

The future of investigative journalism is collaborative

Investigative journalism plays an important role in uncovering corruption, human rights abuses and other forms of wrong-doing by people in

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

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