Super Bowl Champion & 3-Time NFL Pro Bowler Michael Bennett Announces His Retirement

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on people living with diabetes

Many of the people living with diabetes unfortunately also fall into this bracket, and the lockdown has had disastrous effects on their ability to move around and access healthcare and

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

A Second Stimulus Check? Here’s How Much Money You Could Get | The Oklahoma Eagle

By now, most Americans have received the federal stimulus checks directed by the CARES Act in March to help consumers weather the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Numsa threatens court action if govt doesn't resolve its issues with taxi industry

Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim said should the government and the taxi industry not resolve their issues, their members, who are passengers, will be caught in the

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Source: https://www.news24.com

VIDEO: Fauci warns a coronavirus vaccine is not guaranteed

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, testified for three hours before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

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Source: South Florida Times

As Numbers Spike, California To Begin “Smart Testing” for COVID-19

By Tanu Henry, California Black Media

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Black-Led Wellness Event Provided Peaceful Space For Healing

Last Weekend, Black Lives Matter Seattle King County (BLMSKC) and a group of volunteers put together a Black-Led Wellness event in an effort to help the Black community heal from the wounds and the anxiety of just wanting to be free from racial discrimination and police

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

Top cop, Zesa employees in court for power cables theft

A SENIOR Zimbabwe Republic Police officer and two Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) employees were arraigned before the Karoi Magistrates’ Court together with four accomplices facing two counts of vandalism of power

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Barbados PM to hand over chairmanship of CARICOM on July 3 | New York Carib News

Barbados PM to hand over chairmanship of CARICOM on July

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Source: The New York Carib News

HHW Gaming: Damian Lillard Will Grace The Current-Gen Version of ‘NBA 2K21’

Portland Trail Blazers’ All-Star guard, Damian Lilliard, was revealed as one of the athletes blessed with the honor to grace the cover of the current-generation version of NBA

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Source: The Urban Daily

Anonymous Essay Slams ESSENCE Mag For Alleged Sexual Misconduct, Unfair Business Practices Towards Black Women

Source: Rich Polk / Getty

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Source: The Urban Daily

Film review: John Lewis – Good Trouble

“I feel lucky and blessed that I’m serving in the Congress… But there is a force that is trying to take us back to another time and another dark period,” warns congressman John

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Netflix series to dramatize Kaepernick’s path to activism

LOS ANGELES — Colin Kaepernick is joining with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay on a Netflix drama series about the teenage roots of the former NFL

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

16-year-old girl ‘sold’ to Kenyan man

“An estimated 23% of girls in Kenya are married before their 18th birthdays, the main reasons being gender inequality, poverty and traditional beliefs,” said Joshua Ole Kaputa, a children’s rights crusader and peace

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Source: South Florida Times

(BPRW) HBCU HEROES HOSTS FIRST-EVER VIRTUAL ESPORTS TOURNAMENT FOR HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ON JULY 5 IN CONJUNCTION WITH JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE FILM CALL-TO-ACTION TO INCREASE STUDENT VOTER PARTICIPATION – The Black Chronicle

WHAT (Black PR Wire) The Good Trouble Takeover is a 4-hour, online NBA 2K20 tournament between six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and premiere-a-thon to support the release of JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, a documentary about the G Source link

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Uganda unveils seven new cities

From a single city, created at independence in 1962, Ugandans in seven more towns woke up Wednesday as city dwellers, as the government plan to create secondary cities took

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Source: The East African

'Very disturbing'

WASHINGTON, DC, United States — Dr Anthony Fauci said if Americans don't start following public health recommendations US coronavirus cases could grow to 100,000

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

Will calls for change improve diversity in sport front offices?

This has been a guiding purpose since 2006 for The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) for grading pro leagues and the NCAA on racial and gender

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Lady Gaga Shares Her Instagram To Give A Voice To The Black Transgender Community

Recording superstar Lady Gaga selected The Marsha P. Johnson Institute to take over her Instagram account and called on her 42.5 million followers to advocate for Black transgender women to help end the daily fight they endure against systemic

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Rona Rumble: Black Man Cracks White Man Over The Head With A Bottle During Bar Brawl

One white man learned the hard way not to invade the space of a Black man and his

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Source: The Urban Daily

'Princess Bride' remake with Tiffany Haddish and Common drops on streamer

Common (Frazer Harrison for Getty Images) Tiffany Haddish (Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images for

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Source: theGrio

Ways for summer learning at home during COVID-19

Marchant says to foster creativity by suggesting children come up with their own “homemade” physical activity

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Coronavirus immunity 'probably significantly higher' than tests suggest

Research from Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital shows that many people with mild or asymptomatic Covid-19 demonstrate so-called T-cell immunity to the

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Source: TechCentral

SHORT STORY: Blink once and virus has you hurtling down

Hawking from their car boot did not ring well with Maggy and David had to handle her with the care of a knife

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Source: The East African

Here's How Big Facebook's Ad Business Really Is

And most of those ad dollars don’t come from companies like Starbucks and Coca Cola so much as the sprawling list of small and medium-sized businesses who use Facebook to attract customers and build their

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

Tanzanian video director displays talent mastery

I recently came across a new music video titled Kaka Tuchati and what struck me about it was the uniqueness of its visual effects and

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Source: The East African

Naspers unit in talks to up stake in Brazil's iFood

E-commerce group Prosus is in talks to increase its stake in iFood, Latin America’s biggest food delivery start-up, amid a wave of consolidation in the industry, people with knowledge of the matter

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Source: TechCentral

Court nullifies Chief Mvuthu’s nomination

BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva has nullified the nomination of Saunders Mlotshwa as substantive Chief Mvuthu of Hwange district, saying it is unlawful, null and

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Chaos as villagers supervise exams

CHAOS rocked the start of the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) June “O” and “A” Level examinations which started yesterday, with teachers’ unions claiming government hired “villagers and ancillary staff” to invigilate the public examinations after most of their members boycotted over

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation Seeks Community Board Member – Voice and Viewpoint

The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation has announced a call for applications for a community board

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

New /Civiqs poll: Majority views police mistreatment of Black Americans as systemic problem

Other noteworthy findings in this month’s poll

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Source: Daily Kos

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