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Kenya: AU Reiterates Backing Kenya in UNSC Vote

The African Union has reiterated endorsing Kenya for the upcoming vote for the UN Security Council seat in what could strengthen Kenya's chances ahead of the election due June

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One-on-One with Jonathan Majors on Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods •

In February 2019, Majors received rave reviews for his performance in Joe Talbot’s THE LAST BLACK MAN STANDING following its premiere at the Sundance Film

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Buffalo City Council Asks AG to Reopen Case of Black Female Officer Fired for Stopping Assault of Handcuffed Suspect

Officials in Buffalo, New York, want the New York Attorney General’s Office to open an investigation into the firing of Cariol Horne, a Black former police officer who was fired because she intervened after a white officer placed a suspect in

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Uncle Nearest and Jack Daniel's Join Forces to Launch The Nearest & Jack Advancement Initiative to Increase Diversity in American Whiskey Industry

LYNCHBURG, TN – The Jack Daniel Distillery and the Nearest Green Distillery announced today the Nearest & Jack Advancement Initiative to further diversity within the American whiskey

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Africa: An Open Letter to America

On Monday, May 25, 2020, a disturbing video of a 46-year-old man (George Floyd) being murdered in broad daylight by four (4) white police officers, seized our various news feeds on every social media platform, and other online media

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Juneteenth: A day of joy and pain - and now national action

In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American families across the nation with a cookout, a parade, a community festival, a soulful rendition of “Lift

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Kenya's Pivotal Role in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and SGDs a Boon Tothe United

Kenya is persuaded that global challenges are only surmountable if the world's rules based multilateral system is deployed in a manner that attracts consensus not only in the appreciation of the challenges, but also in the evolution of practical response

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Poitier, Sidney (1927 - )

After two years in the Army, Poitier decided on an impulse to audition at the American Negro Theatre. Although he was initially rejected, Poitier was now determined to become an actor. He worked on getting rid of his Bahamian accent and improving his theatre performance for six months. On his

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Africa: 4 Countries Win Seats on UN Security Council -5th Goes to Runoff

Four countries were elected to two-year terms on the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday in the first major vote held at the world body amid the coronavirus

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Shirley Griffith: American Blues Singer and Guitarist

Shirley Griffith was an American blues singer and guitarist, mainly based in

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'You're Looking too Hard': Fans Come to Yandy Smith's Defense After Troll Takes Offense to Her Recent 'CEO' Pose

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Trump Threatens Protesters On Juneteenth

Ahead of a campaign rally in a city where a racist massacre took place, President Donald Trump threatened violence against protesters, as people in cities around the country are set to participate in peaceful anti-racism marches to mark Juneteenth, the anniversary of the end of slavery in the

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Police reform was never going to be easy — but now is the time

Fundamental reforms would begin with ending the “qualified immunity” of police, curbing the militarization of police forces, transferring funds and functions to social agencies, imposing residency requirements and finally making lynching a hate

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Harrowing Blame Game Over COVID-19 Toll In Nursing Homes | Afro

The Trump administration has been pointing to a segment of the industry — facilities with low federal ratings for infection control — and to some Democratic governors who required nursing homes to take recovering coronavirus

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NAACP economic development chair helps local entrepreneurs –

Orlando Johnson was tapped by Flagler County NAACP president Linda Sharpe Matthews in 2013 to serve as the branch’s Economic Development

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Beauty Founder Sharon Chuter Established The #PullUpOrShutUp Movement To Rebuild The Black Middle-Class With High Paying Jobs

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Africa: Tracing the History of Pandemics

Most people on the globe are very frightened of the Covid-19 pandemic which has swept across the

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Trump Issues Executive Order On Police Reform And Meets With Black Families

President Donald Trump held a press conference today (June 16) in the Rose Garden at the White House to sign an executive order providing his strategy for restoring, renewing and rebuilding communities through police

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'Smart As a Button': Kenya Moore's Daughter Learns Her Flash Cards

On Monday, June 15, the reality star of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” shared a video on Instagram of her 1-year-old daughter Brooklyn Daly learning her flash

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Rachael Suggs Pitts, An Early Pioneer In Virus Surveillance, Turns 99

Pitts — who received her nurse training at Brewster Hospital Nursing Program for colored girls in Jacksonville, Florida, which was one of the few nursing schools for African American girls in the United States – says that she was fortunate to have a nursing school director who had links to

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Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte , byname of Harold George Belafonte, Jr. (born March 1, 1927, New York City, New York, U.S.), American singer, actor, producer, and activist who was a key figure in the folk music scene of the 1950s, especially known for popularizing the Caribbean folk songs known as calypsos. He

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Brother Of Man Hanged In California Presses For Autopsy Report

As suspicion continues to mount over the deaths of at least three Black men who were found hanged -- two in California and one in New York--the family of one of the men is calling for answers more than two weeks after he was found

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Ramsey Orta, Who Filmed Eric Garner's Death, Released From Prison

Ramsey Orta — the man who shot video of Eric Garner’s 2014 arrest where he was killed by a police officer who held him in a chokehold — was released from prison on May 28, six weeks ahead of the scheduled end of his sentence, New York's PIX 11

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Spike Lee on honorary Oscar: 'This came out of nowhere, but that's how blessings often come'

Spike Lee was surprised to learn that he was being honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — a group he hadn’t been afraid to criticize in the past for its lack of

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‘This is terrible’...Mother of Maurice Gordon demanding justice

Those were the words of Raquel Barrett, the mother of 28-year-old Maurice Gordon, the unarmed Jamaican man who was gunned down by a New Jersey state trooper following a traffic stop along the Garden State Parkway near Bass River, in Burlington, on the morning of May

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Jamie Foxx Talks Going Through a Physical Transformation to Play Mike Tyson In Upcoming Biopic

Jamie Foxx has been trying to get the Mike Tyson biopic off the ground for years, and now the project has finally taken

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell: I 'Encourage' a team to sign Colin Kaepernick

New York (BNC)– NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell released a statement Monday in support of former NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick being reinstated back into the

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OWN celebrates Juneteenth with special programming June 19

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today the commemoration of the Juneteenth holiday with slate of special encore airings of programming on Friday, June 19 beginning at 3 p.m. ET/PT starting with the evocative original documentary “Dark Girls,” followed by “Light Girls” at 4:30 p.m. ET/PT, “Oprah

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Curtiss Cook — Reprising His Role in Season Three of Showtime’s “The Chi”

Curtiss Cook — Reprising His Role in Season Three of Showtime’s “The

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