South Sudan: Minister Makuei Tests Positive for COVID-19

Black Lives Matter President: “If U.S. doesn’t give us what we want then we will burn down this system”

Black Lives Matter president of Greater New York, Hawk Newsome, joined a discussion on The Story to discuss the direction of the movement in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police

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Source: Your Black World

U-turn as suspension of prominent North West doctor lifted

The controversial suspension of one of the North West province's senior clinicians two weeks ago has been lifted, with Professor Ebrahim Variava returning to his post as head of internal medicine at the Klerksdorp Tshepong Hospital on 29

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Rwanda tests peacekeepers in South Sudan

Rwanda’s second coronavirus victim, Enid Mbabazi, was a peacekeeper with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan

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Source: The East African

Rwanda: People Living With Albinism Grapple With Stigma, Access to Health Care

He now holds a master's degree in Public International Law and is an assistant to the prosecutor of the National Public Prosecution Authority at Muhanga Intermediate

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Source: allAfrica.com

Pinn, Robert Alexander (1843-1911)

Robert A. Pinn, attorney, and Civil War hero, received the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Pinn was born free to William and Zilphia Broxton-Pinn, in Stark County, Ohio on March 1, 1843. His father William Pinn escaped from slavery and fled to Ohio at the age

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Source: Black Past

Chakwera Sworn In as Malawi President

Malawi held an investiture for President Lazarus Chakwera and Vice President Saulos Chilima on Sunday, hours after the elections body declared Chakwera winner of the June 23

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Source: The Washington Informer

Dowrich could earn the respect of his peers if he conquers England

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Fiery protests across Port-of-Spain over killing of three men by Trinidad police

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Somalia: Former Mogadishu Mayor Thabit Abdi Mohamed Wants City Resident to Elect Their Own Leaders

The former governor of Benadir region and Mogadishu mayor Thabit Abdi Mohamed has reignited the thorny issue on whether Mogadishu residents are also supposed to elect their leaders just like the other semi-autonomous

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Source: allAfrica.com

Atlanta Police Call Out Sick Over Charges in Fatal Shooting | Afro

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police officers called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a Black man in the back, while the interim chief acknowledged members of the force feel abandoned amid protests demanding massive changes to

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Britton, Theodore R., Jr. (1925- )

Ambassador Theodore Roosevelt Britton, Jr. was born on October 17, 1925 in North Augusta, South Carolina. In 1936, he and his family migrated to New York City, New York. Britton was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps out of high school soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Although he was unaware

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Source: Black Past

Covid-19: In commemoration of Freedom Charter, Ramaphosa calls on private sector's assistance

He said South Africans need the same determination and resilience shown by those who created the Freedom Charter to fix the challenges the country is currently

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Tanzania: Fired Ministers Shared Mixed Fortunes

He served as a minister for Home Affairs in President John Magufuli's cabinet for five months, from December

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Source: allAfrica.com

Estes, Simon (1938- )

Simon Lamont Estes is a prominent and critically acclaimed African American opera singer. He has made singing appearances before six US presidents, including Barack Obama, numerous other presidents and world leaders, and dignitaries such as Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He has

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Source: Black Past

Nigeria: 9th National Assembly Has Brought Honour to Nigeria - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari says the legislature has brought dignity and honour to the country as the 9th National Assembly commemorates its first

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Source: allAfrica.com

COVID-19: WHO warns of virus acceleration in Africa

Major African stats: June 11 at 7:00

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Atlanta Police Call Out Sick Over Charges in Fatal Shooting

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police officers called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a man in the back, while the interim chief acknowledged members of the force feel abandoned amid protests demanding massive changes to

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Source: Black America Web

Kenya: Politicians Top Source of False Reports - Survey

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 tells of rising concern about misinformation online and on social media, with most people holding local politicians responsible, rather than activists, journalists or foreign

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Source: allAfrica.com

South Sudan: Kerbino Wol killed in actions, Army says

A South Sudanese businessman and philanthropist, Kerbino Agok Wol, turned rebel in June was killed in South

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Police Chief Defends Officer Who Punched Black Alabama Store Owner: ‘I Would Much Rather Have a Punch Than an Officer-Involved Shooting’

Store owner Kevin Penn called Decatur Police to report a robbery at his store and informed the dispatcher he was holding the suspect at

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Rush, Bobby L. (1946- )

Bobby Lee Rush was born in Albany, Georgia on November 23, 1946. He graduated from Marshall High School in that city at the age of seventeen and soon afterwards enlisted in the United States Army. Rush served in the Army from 1963 to 1968 when he was honorably

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Source: Black Past

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NYPD lieutenant seeking Brooklyn City Council seat | New York Carib News

NYPD lieutenant seeking Brooklyn City Council seat

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Source: The New York Carib News

Nigeria: COVID-19 Puts Safe Blood Supply At Risk - Govt

The supply of safe blood is at risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has

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Source: allAfrica.com

Alpha Phi Alpha Brother Becomes First African American To Lead The Air Force

Alpha Phi Alpha’s very own General Charles Q. Brown Jr. has made history by becoming the U.S. Air Force’s chief of staff making him the first African American to lead a U.S. military

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Source: Watch The Yard

Interview: Vumacam CEO Ricky Croock

Ricky Croock

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Source: TechCentral

Juba denies allowing Egypt to build army base on its soil

South Sudan has rubbished reports that it has agreed to Egyptian request to build military base in Pagak, a town bordering

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Source: The East African

Kenya: Nairobi Securities Exchange Launch Mobile App for Investors

The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), has launched a mobile app in a bid to increase investor participation in the Capital

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Source: allAfrica.com

Pedro Sierra Recounts Glory Days in Negro Baseball League

Before a worldwide pandemic shutdown sports, Major League Baseball had planned to use Tuesday, June 29, as a celebration and tip of the cap to the Negro Leagues which began 100 years

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Source: The Washington Informer

‘Don’t touch our heritage’ - Maroons united to protect their legacy

Leaders of the Maroon communities in Portland and St Mary on Thursday signed a petition, appealing to the authorities to respect the final resting place of their forefathers and the cultural legacy bequeathed to them by stopping all further leases of land within the boundaries of the Blue and John

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Uganda's Reputation has Grown - Museveni

He said the ‘Real Economy’ is the economy that deals with the nine basic human needs of food, clothing, shelter, medicine, security, physical infrastructure (the railways, the roads, the electricity, the telephones), health infrastructure (hospitals etc.), the education infrastructure

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Source: allAfrica.com

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