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'New start:' Medics juggle surgery backlogs and virus fight - Black News Channel

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Chatting before they go under the knife, the two women picture their lives after surgery. Caroline Erganian hopes to be rid of her pain. Lolita Andela imagines being able to be active with her kids. After multiple false dawns, they scarcely dare believe that their Paris hospital, no longer monopolized by COVID-19 patients, is once again able to perform their intestinal tucks to treat chronic obesity. When the pandemic was burning through France's health system, the women's surgeries were repeatedly pushed back. But after months of waiting, their turn has now come. […]

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Mother Sues MPD for $100M Over Son’s Death

In observing the two-year anniversary of Marqueese Alston's police-related death, his mother has taken her crusade against the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to another level with a $100 million wrongful-death

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Source: The Washington Informer

Windies ambitious but ‘staying in the present’, says Holder

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Captain Jason Holder said yesterday West Indies would not be relying on their recent success against England for motivation, stressing the importance of the need to “stay in the present” for the three-Test series here next

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

California’s no-bid contracts for pandemic supplies reveal collapsed deals, untested vendors

While normal bidding and vetting procedures have been suspended during the state of emergency, California has entered into roughly $3 billion worth of no-bid contracts for masks, ventilators, call-center workers and other supplies and services to respond to the health crisis,the state’s procurement

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Greg Robinson And Tiffany Crutcher A Force Of Change For Tulsa, Oklahoma | The Oklahoma Eagle

I am deeply committed to making this city one that I can be proud of, that my family can be proud of, that our little brothers and sisters of all races and ages and backgrounds can be proud of, that our ancestors can be proud of and that those who come after us can be proud

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Biden Takes Firm Stand Against Police Killing of George Floyd

After going out to personally meet with demonstrators in Delaware, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has taken a firm stand against the police killing of George Floyd and the overall plight of African Americans who’ve been targeted, brutalized and killed by law enforcement

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Source: The Washington Informer

This week Guyanese may once again be remembering those shocking words if unspoken, for this time Mr Ramotar’s successor, the incumbent President David Granger has retreated as usual behind another deafening and disturbing wall of silence so far unable to admit the clear and present evidence of his

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Probe PG Hodzi for graft: Lawyer

PROSECUTOR-General Kumbirai Hodzi could land in soup over allegations of abusing and using his position for personal benefit in the ongoing arrests and alleged harassment of lawyers behind the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application against his

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Snoop Dogg Recalls Visiting The Notorious B.I.G. After 2Pac Was Killed [Video]

Source: 2015 BET Hip Hip Awards at the Atlanta Civic Center – Arrivals Featuring: Snoop Dogg Where: Atlanta, Georgia, United States When: 09 Oct 2015 Credit: WENN.com

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Source: The Urban Daily

Covid-19: Pretoria Magistrate's Court and SA Air Force headquarters temporarily closed

The Pretoria Magistrate's Court has been closed after a clerk of the court tested positive for

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Protesters topple Jefferson Davis statue in Virginia capital | The Atlanta Voice

Protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the former capital of the Confederacy, adding it to the list of Old South monuments removed or damaged around the U.S. in the wake of George

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Inslee: Those With Mild COVID-19 Symptoms Should Get Tested

OLYMPIA (AP) – Gov. Jay Inslee says the state is broadening its testing strategy and now encouraging people with mild symptoms to get tested for the

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

On a wing and a prayer: Mnangagwa turns to God as crises mount

Faced with a health crisis and an imploding economy, President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday declared June 15 as the presidential national day of prayer in the hope that this could help stem the rising COVID-19

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Batting key to England series win, says Reifer

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Interim batting coach Floyd Reifer believes once West Indies’ batsmen can produce consistently, the Caribbean side can successfully defend the coveted Wisden Trophy and win their first series in England in 32

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Sky is not the limit for Zimbudzi

RISING multi-talented teen commercial model, poet and actor Eugene Zimbudzi believes the sky is not the limit in his endeavour to take his arts career to greater

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Historical Figures Reassessed Around Globe After Floyd Death

(AP) – The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world, including Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Willie Batson Succumbs | The Oklahoma Eagle

Willie worked as a City Planner in both Wichita, Kansas and in Oklahoma City before joining the Office of the Governor in

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Business confidence in South Africa drops to record low

South African business confidence plunged to the lowest level in 45 years due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, with companies even more pessimistic now than when disinvestment from the country over its apartheid policies started gaining momentum more than three decades

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Source: TechCentral

Trump Outlines 4-Point Plan To Address 'Disparities' At Dallas Event

President Trump on Thursday met with pastors, law enforcement officials and small-business owners at a church in Dallas to discuss plans to "build safety, opportunity and dignity," following recent nationwide protests against police

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Source: Stories About Black History

Tracey Brame, Civil Rights Expert and Law Professor, Weighs in on Death of George Floyd

Prior to this weekends protests around the United States over the death of Georg Floyd and others persons of color who have died while in custody of police, WMU-Cooley Associate Dean and Professor Tracey Brame, a civil rights expert, spoke with media outlets in Michigan regarding the use of

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Zoom suspends activists' account after Tiananmen event

Zoom Video Communications temporarily shut the account belonging to a group of US-based Chinese activists after they held an event to commemorate the 31st anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, the activists said on

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Source: TechCentral

Privileged White Moms Are Exposed In Facebook Group After ‘Racist’ George Floyd Comments

On May 30, after the repeated backlash against UES Mommas, Addy Spriggle, a 38-year-old resident on the Upper East Side, asked the group’s administrator Lindsey Plotnick Berger to consider adding a Black

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Source: NewsOne

Eighty-four thousand

One would do well to recall at this point that before Mr Mingo’s sleight of hand failed miserably, the voting process had been declared smooth by at least one team of international observers and free and fair by Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Justice Claudette Singh as well as

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Goodwin Expresses Concerns About Major Travis Yates’ Comments | The Oklahoma Eagle

Calls for Greater Diversity and Sensitivity Training at Tulsa Police Department

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Thomas Lane, former cop charged with killing George Floyd, makes bail

TMZ reports that Thomas Lane, the officer who had just four days on the job has been able to post $750K on a $1M dollar

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

Time’s Up: Child care providers are not America’s mammy

Slavery is over, but women continue to be a vital part of the economy, and we all agree that early learning is critical, so why is the child care system collapsing under the weight of the COVID-19

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Source: theGrio

Oakland Youth Lead Exhibit of Art by Attitudinal Healing Connection

ArtEsteem is the youth arts program of the Attitudinal Healing

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Interview: Tamir Shklaz, founder of PPE marketplace Insupply

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Source: TechCentral

Chief Daniel Hahn Discusses Police Training

As part of its continued coverage, The OBSERVER spoke with Sacramento’s first Black police chief, Daniel Hahn, this week about his response to the protests, his thoughts on George Floyd’s death at the hands of law enforcement and the reform that people in Sacramento and across the country say they

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Byck Foundation Honors Mayor With Donation To The United Way COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund

United Way of the Coastal Empire received a $10,000 contribution from The Byck Foundation to honor the outstanding job Mayor Van Johnson and his team did to protect Savannah during Sunday’s peaceful

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Source: The Savannah Tribune

ASK DR. KEVIN: An Unfamiliar, Rare Disease Associated with Heart Failure in African Americans

By Dr. Kevin Williams , The Chief Medical Officer for Rare Disease at Pfizer

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

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