Holness issues strong warning to Cabinet members

Democrats blast Trump and Abbott over COVID-19 response and its impact on Latino communities

On Wednesday, Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa, DNC Chair Tom Perez, Texas Senate Democratic Leader Carol Alvarado, and State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer held a roundtable discussion on how Trump’s Failed Response to the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Texas Latino

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Source: North Dallas Gazette

Mayor Garcetti Appoints Brenda Shockley As L.A.'s First-Ever Chief Equity Officer In Efforts To Promote Racial Equity

Mayor Eric Garcetti today called for affirmative action in the City government and signed an executive directive to study and promote racial equity in City

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Zimbabwe health minister arrested over coronavirus supplies scandal

Zimbabwe's health minister Obadiah Moyo was arrested on Friday for alleged corruption related to the supply of medical materials to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the anti-graft agency

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Source: https://www.news24.com

More Black athletes join the fight for justice

But for a couple of decades, beginning in the 1990s and until recent years, it was rare for Black athletes to speak out on social issues for fear of aliening fans, sponsors, management, or their own personal

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

New Zimglass investor dumps ex-workers

THE stand-off between Gweru-based glass manufacturer, Zimglass and its former workers over outstanding salaries and allowances dating back to 2014 have intensified amid indications that the new investor, Brainman Investments, has not shown commitment to pay the

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Caricom team has reinforced our negative electoral conduct

When President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo along with Caricom and GECOM’s Chair signed the “aide memoire”, the document that stated the terms and conditions of the recount and verification of the votes cast in the ten electoral districts in the country, it was followed by

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Virtual Graduate Recognition Ceremony For Detroit Youth

Council Member Raquel Castañeda-López and Council President Pro Tem Mary Sheffield will curate a virtual graduate recognition ceremony for youth in Detroit graduating from Kindergarten, 5th grade, and 8th grade, who attend public, private, or charter

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

COVID-19 Update

As of June 17, 2020 at 10:20 AM Alabama had 26,914 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 784 deaths

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

Former ACP boss decries lack of official result in Guyana's elections

GEORGTOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Former secretary general of the African Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP), Dr Patrick I Gomes says it is “shameful” that four months after a regional and general election, voters in Guyana are yet to know the official

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

Governor Orders Statewide Mask Use Amid Scattered Pushback

But after weeks of mixed messaging and leaving the decision of implementing mask mandates up to counties, the state today said face coverings will be required after

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Detroit Means Business with Paycheck Protection Flexibility

After a few weeks in, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has been adjusted to offer small businesses more flexibility in accessing financial

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

‘Pick positives from Marriages Bill’

ZIMBABWEANS should not only cast the Marriages Bill in bad light, but should also pick up positives such as putting an end to the discrimination and infringement of women’s civil liberties which are provided for in the proposed

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

THE NEW NORMAL: 173rd Session of Allegheny Annual Conference held virtually

REV. JONATHON COUNTS, Pastor of Homewood AME Zion Church, communicating with conference attendees via the new

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Black Student Loan Debt Should Be An Issue For All Of Us

Black people often end up in the demographic struggling to repay student loan debt for a variety of socio-economic reasons caused by systemic racism that wreaks havoc on generation after generation in a cruel cycle of poverty and resource

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Source: NewsOne

Gaskin says APNU+AFC fooling supporters

Saying that the APNU+AFC coalition has been deliberately fooling its supporters with grossly exaggerated claims of electoral fraud, former minister Dominic Gaskin yesterday urged the incumbent to be honest and accepts its defeat and work towards regaining the swing voters it will need to win any

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

What To Know About Dating Someone In Medical School

But every day, doctors and nurses go there, intentionally, knowing they’ll witness some horrifying

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Source: MadameNoire

Trump vows to end Dream Act despite court ruling

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — President Donald Trump said yesterday that he will renew his Administration's effort to end legal protections for young immigrants after the Supreme Court blocked the first

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

Newswire : Senator Doug Jones urges President Trump to appoint Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board Members

Senator Jones’ bipartisan legislation, the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018, required the review, declassification, and release of government records related to unsolved Civil Rights-era criminal

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

The Church and The Movement Why The Faith Community Is Marching, Too – Part 1

As a youth growing up in Lynchburg, Va., I was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s which fostered many of the civil rights gains we have today as a result of mass demonstrations, protest marches, and finally, economic

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Source: The New Journal and Guide

Govt should balance prices and salaries: CCZ

THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) says government should balance between pricing of goods and salaries to prevent a situation where the loss of value on earnings would impoverish

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

‘Cuffed’ Mapanzure pictures set social media ablaze

Mapanzure told NewsDay Life & Style yesterday that the said pictures were part of the visuals of his new video — Nditaurirewo — which was released

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

GB Energy-Texaco donates $1m to PSOJ's COVID-19 fund

GB Energy-Texaco Jamaica recently donated $1 million to the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica's (PSOJ) COVID-19 Response Fund, which was established to assist vulnerable citizens affected by the coronavirus

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

‘Keys to Black Wealth Summit’ kicks off virtual ‘Freedom Day’

Columbus, Ohio (Black PR Wire) – “Keys to Black Wealth Virtual Summit” invites you to join in as they kick off their ﬁrst-ever virtual summit to celebrate Juneteenth – also known as “Freedom Day” – to commemorate the emancipation of slavery which took place June

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Source: South Florida Times

Trump signs police reform executive order that focuses on training, falls short of protesters’ demands

President Trump on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 addressed the issue of police brutality by taking executive action that would provide incentives for police departments to increase training about the use of force and to strengthen a national database to track

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

Coronavirus cuts Zambia mining revenue by a third

Lusaka - Zambia, Africa's second largest copper producer, saw its mining revenue drop nearly a third between February and April this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the mining chamber said on

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Mayor to require city employees to take implicit-bias training

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti signed an executive directive June 19 to address racial equity in Los Angeles by requiring city departments to plan for the reinstatement of affirmative action in California and for city employees to take implicit-bias

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Source: Homepage -

Miss Juneteenth Pageant Slated For June 19th | Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Board members, left to right are: Atty. Paul Rebein, VP; Superintendent C. U. Sutton, Delphine Jones, Pres. Pastor P. Tucker-Johnson, Norma Pierce, Sec., and Jessie Quinn; not pictured, Susan

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Source: Florida Sentinel Bulletin

South African Choir Adapts to COVID-19 by Making New Music | Afro

MOUTSE VALLEY, South Africa (AP) — The dusty streets of rural South Africa are a far cry from the bright lights of “America’s Got Talent,” but that’s where the members of the Ndlovu Youth Choir find themselves coping with the coronavirus

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Court of Appeal to rule Monday in challenge to GECOM declaration

The Guyana Court of Appeal is to rule on Monday at 1.30 pm in the case brought by Eslyn David against GECOM and the Chief Election Officer seeking to stop the declaration of the results of the March 2nd general

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

“Find A Different Job:” Meagan Good Speaks On Her Dad Being A Cop And Officers Holding Each Other Accountable

While not once have Black and brown people suggested all cops are bad, what we have asked for is accountability, unlike what we saw in the murder of George Floyd where officers stood by and even assisted Derek Chauvin in killing

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Source: MadameNoire

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