Daily Update: Big E, NJPW Summer Struggle, Gerald Meerschaert

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Daily Update: Big E, NJPW Summer Struggle, Gerald Meerschaert

Big E speaks with Yahoo Sports, NJPW reveals another Summer Struggle card, and a fight is off tonight's UFC show due to a positive COVID-19 test.

Source: WON/F4W - WWE news, Pro Wrestling News, WWE Results, UFC News, UFC results

Botswana coronavirus: govt prioritizes data amid stay away campaign

Total confirmed cases = 35 (new cases

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

In Letter to Congress: Black Wealth 2020 Sends Plea for Unity in Pandemic Relief | Afro

Black-Owned Businesses Got Little Relief Under PPP

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Ghana coronavirus: 6,808 cases, phase out lifting of restrictions - church group

Total confirmed cases = 6,683 (new cases

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Uganda: We Were Reluctant to Charge Dr Nyanzi, Says DPP

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Jane Frances Abodo has said her office was reluctant to sanction charges of being a nuisance against former Makerere University Research Fellow, Dr Stella Nyanzi last

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Source: allAfrica.com

Trump threatens to pull Republican convention out of North Carolina | The Atlanta Voice

President Donald Trump began a solemn Memorial Day railing against North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, ahead of the 2020 Republican National Convention, threatening to pull it out of Charlotte, where the convention is expected to be held August 24 to

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

This Bronx Culinary Collective Is Helpining Communities Amid COVID-19

New York City has been hit hard by the COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, pandemic and no borough has been harder hit than The Bronx due largely to income inequality, poor healthcare, and food

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Kenya: Norwegian Brothers to Battle 'Team Timothy Cheruiyot' in Virtual Race

Nairobi — World 1500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot will team up with Commonwealth Champion Elijah Manangoi and 800m runner Edwin Meli to compete against the Norwegian Ingebrigtsen brothers in a virtual race set for June 11, competing over 2,000m in an event christened 'Maurie Plant Memorial

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Source: allAfrica.com

Extension and Partners Build Capacity for QUEST Card/EBT Use at Farmers Markets

The Milwaukee Farmers Market Coalition (MFMC) is working to make sure that SNAP/EBT programs at farmers markets operate in a safe manner this

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

Lack of professional clubs in Scotland holding game back, says Strachan

(Reuters) – The lack of fully professional clubs in the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) has handcuffed the sport in the country, former Scotland manager Gordon Strachan

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Africa: The Antidote for COVID-19 Is Looking Out for One Another, Kagame Tells Africans

President Paul Kagame joined leaders across different sectors in celebrating Africa day, which marks the founding of the Organisation of the African Union (OAU) - currently the African Union - and called for solidarity among the people of

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Source: allAfrica.com

DeKalb County, State Agriculture Department partner with Georgia farmers to fight food insecurity | The Atlanta Voice

On Friday, May 22, DeKalb County Government worked to mitigate food insecurity in the county by distributing 1,200 boxes of fresh produce and 1,200 bags of chicken to families and residents who have limited access to healthy

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Africa: At UBA Web Summit, Leaders Outline Path for Africa's Recovery

The leaders and experts made the call yesterday at the United Bank for Africa's (UBA) 2020 Africa Day Conversations, with the theme: "Growth, Jobs, and Sustainable Development Amidst a global Pandemic," that was moderated by the Chairman of the bank, Mr. Tony

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Source: allAfrica.com

'We're expendable': black Americans pay the price as states lift lockdowns

Majority black counties already account for more than half of all coronavirus cases in the US and nearly 60% of

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Source: News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition | The Guardian

Africa: Why Africa Can't Afford Further Delay On AfCFTA - Afreximbank

The devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Africa's economy has shown that the continent can ill-afford a further delay in the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), panelists in a web conference on Africa's economic recovery, post-COVID-19, said on

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ahmaud Arbery shooting weighs heavily on black legal professionals

(Courtesy: Quintairos, Prieto, Wood

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Angola: Africa Shows Resilience Capacity - Foreign Minister

Luanda — Angolan Foreign Minister Tête António said Monday that the fight against the covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the capacity resilience of the African

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Source: allAfrica.com

AMHVoices: COVID-19: A blessing in disguise for Zim health sector

In Zimbabwe, the health sector has been the worst affected of all sectors by economic

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

East Africa: First Person - The Struggle to Protect Human Rights in East Africa During the Pandemic

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in East Africa, the UN Human Rights regional office, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been contributing to the COVID-19 response of UN country teams in the region, by ensuring that human rights protection for vulnerable people is included in their

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Source: allAfrica.com

Worker Shortage Concerns Loom In Immigrant-Heavy Meatpacking | Afro

Lacking English skills, the brothers took jobs at Smithfield Foods’ Sioux Falls pork plant, grueling and increasingly risky work as the coronavirus sickened thousands of meatpacking workers

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Africa: U.S. Treasury Secretary Demands Independent Investigation of AfDB President

United States Treasury Secretary, Mr. Steven Mnuchin, has canvassed an independent investigation into allegations of wrongdoing against the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, despite Adesina's clearance by the ethics committee of the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ghana coronavirus: 7,117 cases as Accra hits 5,000; MPs infection controversy

Total confirmed cases = 7,117 (new cases

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Home of Know Africa – Be Africa

About a month ago, Africa’s largest content house launched the first factual Video on Demand platform on the

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Global leadership and the search for a vaccine

It said that the voluntary pooling of patents in response to the pandemic needed to be ‘be narrowly tailored in scope and duration to the medical needs of the current crisis’, raising uncertainty about how the US intends to respond if it is the first nation with a viable

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Coronavirus pandemic claims another victim: Robocalls | The Atlanta Voice

After a lockdown order went into effect in India in late March, “we saw the volume of calls basically half the next day,” Quilici

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Sector-specific protocols best way to gradually open up the economy, says DA's head of policy

The DA's head of policy, Gwen Ngwenya, says the country has to consider implementing sector-specific protocols, which will help with a gradual and responsible reopening of the

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Angola: Public Calamity Situation Already in Force

Luanda — After 60 days of social confinement under the Presidential Decree on the State of Emergency, Angola is observing, as of Tuesday, a Public Calamity Situation, with new rules to overcome the coronavirus

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Source: allAfrica.com

Secretary of State: Return Georgia mail-in ballots now | The Atlanta Voice

Georgia’s chief election official is urging residents to complete and send in their absentee ballots now instead of

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

World Health Organization says global coronavirus cases 'still on the way up'

(Photo by Naohiko Hatta - Pool/Getty

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Source: theGrio

Black Women Are Calling Out Their Employers, But There’s Still Work To Be Done

Apologies are not enough. Things need to change internally — here’s how.Continue reading on ZORA »

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Source: https://zora.medium.com

Henry Winkler & David Bautista Clown Donald Trump’s Water Drinking Struggle

After much scrutiny and slander for continuing to show signs of some sort of mental decline (his racism still seems very much intact though), Henry Winkler decided to take to social media and show the world how an old, yet able man drinks a glass of water with a single

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Source: The Urban Daily

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