J.C. Watts, Jr.

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J.C. Watts, Jr.

engagements, alliances and initiatives.

Watts, who has a diverse portfolio ranging from athletics to ministry, to business and non-profit, has guided many teams to victory. Watts was elected as Oklahoma Congressman in 1994, where he served eight years. Watts co-authored President Clinton’s American Community Renewal and New Markets Act and authored President Bush’s faith-based initiative, the Community Solutions Act of 2001. Prior to politics and business, Watts was a starting player for Ottawa and Toronto in the Canadian Football League.

Watts has extensive experience in helping others nationally and internationally. Watts created the J.C. and Frankie Watts Foundation to support the advancement of vulnerable Americans in the areas of education, economics and health.

Source: Savoy Network

China ready to pounce as Tullow Oil bows out

The Covid-19 pandemic has come as the last nail on the coffin of Kenya’s oil export dream as currently structured after British oil major Tullow Oil served the government with a force majeure notice, which means that it can no longer deliver its part of the

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Tech And Policing Amidst Pandemic And Protests - Blavity

Now, many Americans are experiencing, for the first time, a reality that Black people in this country have been living with since 1619: white supremacist terrorism supported by

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Source: Blavity News

Bolton Book: Judge rules Bolton can publish book despite efforts to block it

In this Sept. 30, 2019, file photo, former national security adviser John Bolton gestures while speakings at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in

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Source: theGrio

Celebrating Malcolm X, a warrior and master teacher –

No one whom I have ever met more clearly understood the realness of that observation than Brother Malcolm X, who himself once noted “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it

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Source: Daytona Times

Celebrating Bro. Malcolm X, A Warrior and Master Teacher

That’s why I believe that the best way to celebrate Brother Malcolm’s 95th birthday on May 19, 2020 is to honor his role as a superb deliverer of

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Check It Out: Banning the banned chokehold

Now, I’m going to use the racial profiling ban as a starting point to sympathize with President Trump’s recent executive order banning chokeholds except if the officer’s life is at

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Covid-19: Global tensions simmer over race for vaccine

Global tensions simmered over the race for a coronavirus vaccine Thursday, as the United States and China traded jabs, and France slammed pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi for suggesting the US would get any eventual vaccine

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Patterson praises Clarke as patriot

Former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has remembered media giant Oliver Clarke as a patriot who wore no political

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Kenya: One Woman's Race to Save Girls From 'The Cut', Early Marriage

Dr Kulea, an anti-female genital mutilation and gender activist, is the founder and executive director of the Samburu Girls

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Source: allAfrica.com

If my party is classed a terrorist entity, am I a terrorist?

During the Cold War, both the State and Defense departments dubbed Mandela’s political party, the African National Congress, a terrorist group, and Mandela’s name remained on the U.S terrorism watch list till

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Wanda L. Nesbitt (1956-- )

Wanda L. Nesbitt holds the rank of Career Minister in the U.S. Foreign Service. She joined the United States Foreign Service in 1981. She was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar by President George W. Bush and served in that capacity from 2001 to 2004. President Bush appointed her ambassador

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Source: Black Past

Snapchat removes Trump account from curated section

Snap said it would no longer promote US President Donald Trump’s account in Snapchat’s Discover section, saying his incendiary comments last week made the account ineligible for the curated section where users explore new

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Source: TechCentral

Cornel West is an American philosopher, activist, academic and intellectual; he is also the first African-American to have graduated from Princeton University with a PhD in

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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

Jones, Anthony “Van” (1968- )

Van Jones is a social-environmental activist and the Obama administration’s former “Green Czar.” He was born in 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee. His mother and father were a high school teacher and junior-high principal respectively. While growing up, Jones was a stereotypical

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Source: Black Past

China says virus pushing US ties to brink of 'Cold War'

BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said yesterday that relations with the United States were “on the brink of a new Cold War”, fuelled in part by tensions over the new coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 350,000 people worldwide and pitched the global economy into a massive

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

Cry, the beloved Africa – a tale of two experiences

Cry, the beloved Africa – a tale of two experiences

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Source: https://city-press.news24.com

Sharpless, Mattie R. (1943- )

On October 1, 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Mattie R. Sharpless to be the next United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic. After confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Sharpless was at her post in the nation’s capital at Bangui by mid-December 2001. Sharpless served in Bangui

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Source: Black Past

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2001

Black America’s Conflicted History with the Insurrection Act

Cotton appeared on Fox News where he offered, “[I]f necessary, the president should use the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military forces to these cities to support our local law enforcement and ensure that this violence ends tonight . . .not one more

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

“You Can’t Stop the House”: Chosen Few Picnic Goes Virtual

World’s biggest dance party moves online with daylong Livestream on 4th of July

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Source: Chicago Defender

George W. Bush: George Floyd's Death Means It's Time To Listen, Not Lecture

Former President George W. Bush released a statement Tuesday about the police killing of George Floyd but emphasized it wasn’t his place to say how the country should handle its systemic racism

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individuals race, children, national

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Source: ThoughtCo

Kenya: Did Kenya Make the Right Move in Importing Drug?

They included antiretrovirals and other essential drugs as well as hydroxychloroquine, an

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Source: allAfrica.com

Thomas, Clarence (1948- )

Clarence Thomas, the second African American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, was born in Pin Point, Georgia, a small community south of Savannah. His mother, Leola Williams, a single parent, raised Thomas until he was seven. He and his brother, Myers, were sent to Savannah where they were

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Source: Black Past

(2017) President Barack Obama's Farewell Address

On January 10, 2017, Barack Obama delivered his last farewell address in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. His speech is appears

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Source: Black Past

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The presidential election did take place in late June, but it was neither free nor fair. Nevertheless, Mugabe was elected to a sixth term, taking 85% of the vote. President Bush joined the chorus of world leaders who condemned the election and the government-sponsored crackdown on the

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Inez E. Dickens - New York State Assembly

Moreover, for over 30 years, beginning as a student activist at the sides of her father and mentor, the late Harlem businessman and New York State Assemblyman Lloyd E. Dickens, and her uncle, the late Assemblyman and state Supreme Court Justice Thomas K. Dickens, Inez has taken an active role in

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Source: New York State Assembly Assembly Home

Texans Bill O’Brien stands with Floyd family, understands why players kneel

Houston Texans coach and general manager Bill O’Brien spoke Wednesday morning with passion and great empathy about the George Floyd tragedy that has gripped our

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

Africa: UN Peacekeepers - Numbers Are Going Down

UN missions, they believed, could and would bring peace to the world's conflict

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Source: allAfrica.com

Prosper, Pierre-Richard (1963– )

Pierre-Richard Prosper is an attorney and diplomat who turned his passion for the rule of law into a global pursuit for justice for victims of the worst crimes of humanity, and accountability for the perpetrators of those

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Source: Black Past

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