Rams waive RB Darrell Henderson, OLB Justin Hollins, create opportunities for younger players

Singer’s powerful family mourns teen heiress’ death | Afro

One of the wealthiest and most powerful families in Spain is grieving the loss of yet another of their own - this time, a 14-year-old who died in a canoeing accident while at summer camp. The girl's aunt, Eurovision singer Barei, spoke about the immense pain felt by her family following the

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Who Remembers Earl Buie? - SBNEWS

By all accounts, Earl Buie was a newspaperman’s newspaperman, and his unique writing and editorial styles were ingrained in the pages of The Sun for nearly 50 years. He was born in Whitlock, Tennessee, on Jan. 21, 1897, Buie moved to San Bernardino with his family in 1910. Earl Buie began his

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WATCH: President Trump wants ‘schools open in the fall’ | Afro

Florida schools will reopen in the fall, thanks to an executive order signed by that states Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran. And Florida, where President Trump maintains residency, wont be the only state where children will head to classrooms if the president has anything to do with it. The

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Bad Apple Police Misconduct Tip Line

[Source] See something? Say something. The Bad Apple Police Misconduct Tip Line is a way to safely and if you prefer, anonymously, report police misconduct you witness or experience. This line is for civilians as well as for Law Enforcement officials. Call 1-844-BAD-APPL (1-844-223-2775) or use the

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Baby sharks: 8 pups born at Spanish oceanarium | Afro

A Spanish oceanarium has a few new residents, after a shark gave birth to eight pups. The five female and three male sandbar shark pups were eating and responding well in their first days at the oceanarium, according to a statement Friday from Valencia's L'Oceanografic. Eight sharks being fed

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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? | Afro

By Frederick Douglass Excerpted from his speech delivered before the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society, July 5, 1852 in Rochester, N.Y. Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national

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Filling Ernies Shoes And A Moment for North Omaha : Omaha Star

By Chris Bowling Within puzzle-piece boundaries that jut and zigzag from the Missouri River to Cuming Street, up 48th Street and across Redick Avenue, lies Legislative District 11. Throughout Nebraska, there are 49 other malformed polygons like it. Every four years, about 35,000 people in those

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‘Avoid being bitten’: Virus-carrying Asian tiger mosquitoes likely reach UK - The Mississippi Link

The Asian tiger mosquito, which has made headlines around the world because it carries dangerous viruses, are likely already in the UK, an expert warned. Dr Anna-Bella Failloux poses for a photo. She is a professor of entomology and is head of the 'Arboviruses and Insect Vectors' branch of the

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Source: The Mississippi Link

Abandoned, emaciated pets rescued from apartment in Germany | Afro

Two abandoned dogs and a cat that apparently survived by drinking water from the toilet in a German apartment were discovered and rescued after a terrible smell from the apartment prompted neighbors to contact an animal charity. The charity, Arme Socken (Poor Socks), notified police in the city of

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Mobile pantry distributes hundreds of meals, but some leave empty handed : Omaha Star

by Chris Bowling Sarah Comer walked backward across the blacktop, her arms waving the Toyota Camry forward like a plane on a tarmac. “Come on, come come on,” she said as she neared a yellow Penske moving van loaded with 200 bags of food outside Jefferson Elementary Monday afternoon. “Keep

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Spanish archaeologists dig up dozens of mysterious tiny human figures - The Mississippi Link

Dozens of tiny flint figures were found by scientists working in Jordan, thousands of years after they were likely used in funerals and memorial ceremonies. The dozens of tiny human figures were found by Spanish archaeologists surrounding human remains and are believed to have been used in rituals

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Source: The Mississippi Link

AFRO Exclusive: Catherine Pugh Prepares to Leave Home | Afro

By Frances “Toni” Draper AFRO Publisher “Who do we hold responsible for what we become in our lifetimes…dope addicts or doctors, robbers or reporters, rapists or radiologists, church leaders or child abusers? And who created the myth that permits us to place blame for our mistakes on anyone other

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Traders who suffered under Taliban go digital | Afro

Zahra Kazemi started her business Bamyan Weavers nearly 30 years ago, when Afghanistan was under Taliban control. She left the country after the Taliban destroyed her trade, returning after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 drove the regime from power. Kazemi, like many traders in the country, needed

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I Tried Energy Healing To Get Rid Of The Toxicity In My Life

I realized I had issues, issues about a year ago when I was on my therapist's couch and she asked me if I was thinking about harming myself. I've been seeing her for the past 10 years, and she's helped me navigate through toxic environments---some I was born into and some I've created myself.

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Field Negro: The virus is still here, and Bounty Gate heats up | Atlanta Daily World

If you thought that we were winning the war against COVID-45 think again. The virus isn’t quite finished with us just yet. There are spikes in new infection rates everywhere, and Houston is looking like New York did a couple of months ago. Remember when the president said that the virus would go

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Ben Crump Heralded as Black America’s Attorney General | Afro

By Natalie Jackson, Special to the Houston Forward Times via BPUSA Momentous events can occur in an instant, but more often they emerge after a long build-up. The explosion of protests all over the world was such a moment following the George Floyd killing. And Ben Crump who has been called the

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Illinois’ cap on gathering size is akin to building occupancy rules, Raoul says | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By REBECCA ANZEL Capitol News Illinois ranzel@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD — State regulation of the number of people allowed at gatherings does not violate Illinoisans’ First Amendment rights, the attorney general’s office argued in a court document. A lawsuit filed last month by the

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Trump: 'Black Americans Are Killed by Police Just Like Whites'

By Victor Omondi Trump doesn’t admit that African-Americans suffer disproportionately from police brutality. In an interview with CBS News, the President made startling remarks about the Confederate flag, victims of police violence, and a recent confrontation in St. Louis, where a couple pointed

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Source: Your Black World

Driveway drag shows and backyard violins: Business takes off for performers who deliver | Afro

Artists are blazing a new path to battle isolation, boredom and sagging spirits: home delivery. The Driveway Drag Show carries on, even for Richmonds city clients with no driveways. (Courtesy: Andy Jordan)of performances, either to your driveway, balcony, or backyard. Michelle Livigne has been

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Former Cop Who Placed Knee On Black Woman’s Neck Booked For Misconduct (video) | Afro

By N. Ali Early Another incident of police brutality against an African American has surfaced. According to the Miami Herald, Safiya Satchell was sitting in her Mercedes SUV when she was approached by an off duty police officer who was working as security for a strip club in the immediate proximity

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Activist Says He Wants Justice, Not Money, For Unwarranted Assault While a Prison Inmate by Seven Guards - Milwaukee Community Journal

By Thomas E. Mitchell, Jr. (Editor’s Note: This article contains a paragraph of a sensitive, explicit nature in describing what happened to article’s main subject and is only mentioned to give the article context.) David Ali Shabazz, a former inmate at Waupun Correctional Institution with

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

John Lewis: Civil Rights Lion Gets into Good Trouble in Dawn Porter Documentary - Black Voice News

As long as I have breath in my body, I will do what I can. – Congressman John Lewis Congressman John Lewis is known and revered worldwide for his social justice activism as a young man during the modern Civil Rights movement which sparked large scale civic and social change in America. Many have

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

Ball Is Life: Nike Celebrates East Coast and West Coast Hoops With Upcoming Air Force Ones

Ball Is Life: Nike Celebrates East Coast and West Coast Hoops With Upcoming Air Force One Release

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131 apply to fill vacancy after Rep. John Lewis’ death - DefenderNetwork.com

At least 131 people applied to be tapped by party officials to be nominated to defend Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District after the Friday death of Rep. John Lewis, a spokesperson for the Democratic Party of Georgia told Fox News on Sunday. Lewis, 80, a former leading civil rights activist, died

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Unemployment benefits saved our economy. Don't let them expire - Dallas Examiner

By RICHARD BOBERG Patriotic Millionaires As COVID-19 infections surge across the US while falling almost everywhere else in the world, our lawmakers seem intent on acting like this pandemic is simply over. Right

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

San Diego Explosion Injures 34 US Sailors | Afro

At least 34 U.S. sailors suffered injuries after an explosion Sunday morning aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) at Naval Base San Diego. The cause of the explosion, which is under investigation, has not been determined. A frame grab from video shot by the San Diego Fire

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Civil Rights Icon, Rep. John Lewis Dies at 80 | Afro

By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Representative John Lewis (D- Georgia) spent most of his life- beginning in adolescence- fighting for equality and justice for African Americans; and while the last months of his life were spent battling a beast that may have, at times, seemed greater

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* VOTING INFORMATION *

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RUNOFF ELECTION VOTE EARLY: June 29 to July 10, 2020 ELECTION DAY: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 VOTE BY MAIL: https://webservices.sos.state.tx.us/forms/5-15f.pdf

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Remembering the 1964 Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner | Afro

By Donna Lewis Johnson For Blacks of a certain age, the May 25 knee-on-neck killing of George Floyd by a White police officer evokes that awful time in the summer of 1964 when young civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered in Neshoba

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China carries out first coronavirus-related execution | Afro

China put a 24-year-old man who fatally stabbed two inspectors at a checkpoint to death in the country's first coronavirus-related execution. Ma Jianguo was executed Thursday by officials in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province in southwestern China, Beijing's Supreme

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