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1, 200 extra Chicago cops to be deployed over July 4 weekend

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicagos police superintendent said Monday that he plans to flood the citys streets with additional officers during the long July 4 weekend in an effort to avoid a repeat of particularly bloody recent weekends and despite pressure to keep officer overtime to a minimum. “We didnt do it last weekend and the []

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[SNA] Genina -The Sudanese security forces arrested, Sunday, tens of inviduals who were on their way to Libya to work as mercenaries.

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African Americans 'probably ought to be' shot more by police, a top Tulsa officer said

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Confusion over accuracy of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 testing as infection rate doubles

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Legal Experts Review Black Minnesota Teen's Life Sentence - Black News Channel

By ROBIN MCDOWELL Associated Press/ BNC Contributor MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An independent panel of national legal experts will review the conviction of an African American man sentenced as a teenager to life in prison for the murder of a little girl struck by a stray bullet, Northwestern

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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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St Ann under the gun - Violence adds to turmoil in Garden Parish

As corruption investigations deepen into operations at the St Ann Municipal Corporation, life for residents of Parry and Steer towns, in particular, has been a frenzy of fear, gunshots and bloodshed as warring gangsters push the parish’s gun crimes...

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Scant Evidence For Trump Claim That Antifa Is Behind Protest Violence

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COMMENTARY: Old, Sick and Incarcerated | Afro

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Jill Scott And Erykah Badu’s Streams Skyrocketed 300 Percent Since #Verzuz Battle

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Two more teens nabbed for Phillip East murders

The latest arrests brings to five, the number of suspects caught so far for the murders of five men in the township. Police have launched a homicide investigation, while the suspects are expected to appear in court on Monday, 13 July 2020

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Creating During a Crisis: Black Muralist Sydney G. James To Recreate Iconic Malice Green Painting

During this time of Strange Fruit, Artist, and Muralist, Sydney G. James has found a way to hang her frustrations by re-creating the mural in honor of unjustly slain Malice Green, killed at the hands of Police

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Legal Experts Review Black Minnesota Teen's Life Sentence

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An independent panel of national legal experts will review the conviction of an African American man sentenced as a teenager to life in prison for the murder of a little girl struck by a stray bullet, Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions and the New York-based

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Trinidad's police commissioner says foreign assassins paid to kill him

TRINIDAD (CMC): Police Commissioner Gary Griffith says he is aware of plans to assassinate him using foreign killers but said he is not perturbed and would continue his job to deal with the criminal elements in Trinidad and Tobago. Addressing...

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JDF soldier shot in August Town

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is reporting that a soldier is currently in critical condition after being wounded during a shootout with gunmen in the African Gardens community in August Town, St Andrew last night. It is reported that at about 9:...

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Watch: Manhunt underway after another CIT robbery in Gauteng

The robbers reportedly drove into the CIT vehicle before holding the guards at gunpoint. They subsequently bombed the van with explosives.

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Three weeks after opening, Georgia business owners chart their own course forward | The Atlanta Voice

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COMMENTARY: Old, Sick and Incarcerated

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Main witness recalled in King Valley Gang trial

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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Checks Atlanta Residents Who Don’t Obey COVID-19 Guidelines

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Woman falsely claims Black man threatened life in Central Park

(Credit: screenshot) Another day, another instance of the “Karen” jumping out of a white woman and this time one falsely claimed that an “African-American man” threatened her life over a dog in New York’s Central Park. On Monday, a video went viral of a woman apparently identified as

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Texas has 2,000 virus patients in hospitals for first time | Dallas Weekly

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Andrea Harris, Black Economic Development Leader, Dies

The death of activist and Black economic development leader Andrea Lynette Harris, 72, last week, co-founder of the nonprofit N.C. Institute of Minority Economic Development (aka “The Institute”) came as a shock to those who knew, loved and respected

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‘Gorilla’ gangster convicted

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The City of Chicago is partnering with iHeartMedia Chicago’s 107.5 WGCI for Two Days of Virtual Entertainment to Encourage Residents to Stay Home

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7 men arrested after harassing Black Family with racial slurs, Nazi salutes - TheGrio

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