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How to Protect Your Small Business Investment
As a small business owner or service provider, your priorities are to create more value, expand your market share and gain loyal clients; but these achievements can be lost in the case of a turmoil in the market or through an unexpected mistake or
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Africa: COVID-19 Threatens Important Progress in Africa
Secretary General António Guterres — As COVID-19 spreads across the continent, Africa has responded swiftly to the pandemic, and as of now reported cases are lower than
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Africa: China-Africa Blanket Debt Forgiveness Not in the Cards
As China tightens its belt economically in response to the coronavirus, African leaders are anxious about the future of infrastructure projects, trade and, in some cases, are requesting debt
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Biden Administration Will Increase Coronavirus Vaccine Doses Shipped To Cities And Pharmacies - The New York Beacon
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced Monday that the Biden administration will increase the number ofcoronavirus vaccinesshipped to states. Psaki also announced the number of vaccines going to retail pharmacies will double. The administration was sending out 11 million vaccine doses and
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Nigeria: Govt Approves N46.2 Billion to Pay Beneficiaries of Public Works Programme
Abuja — The federal government yesterday said N46.2 billion has been voted for the payment of the 774,000 people to be engaged under the special public works
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Black becomes governor of Virgin Islands
Former federal judge William H. Hastie was confirmed as governor of the Virgin Islands. Hastie became the only Afro-American to govern a U.S. state or territory since Reconstruction.
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 Guyana, US ink pact for private sector investment in infrastructure - Stabroek News
As Guyana and the United States yesterday signed an agreement to bolster private sector investment in infrastructure,  visiting Secretary of State Michael Pompeo steered clear of pronouncements  on this country’s controversial 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil, saying simply
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Trump to withdraw Pendley's nomination as public lands chief - Black News Channel
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — President Donald Trump intends to withdraw the nomination of William Perry Pendley to head the Bureau of Land Management, a senior administration official said Saturday — much to the relief of environmentalists who insisted the longtime advocate of
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TikTok Owner Picks Oracle Over Microsoft As US Tech Partner
Oracle said Monday that the Chinese owner of TikTok has picked the U.S. company to be its “trusted technology provider,' beating out rival Microsoft in a deal that could help keep the popular video-sharing app running in the U.S. Oracle spokeswoman Deborah Hellinger said she was confirming remarks
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Biden And Mexico's López Obrador Discuss Migration And COVID-19 In Virtual Meeting | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met virtually with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico with a focus on immigration and COVID-19 recovery. Their Monday discussion also covered drug trafficking, economic development initiatives and opportunities for economic cooperation. The Biden
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Why Honoring Bloody Sunday And Congressman John Lewis Means Calling For D.C. Statehood - Blavity
On the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, we remember the legacy of Congressman John Lewis and his many calls for justice — D.C. statehood among them.
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Nigeria: 774,000 Jobs - FG Begins Recruitment
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(1867) Thaddeus Stevens, “Reconstruction”
In 1867 Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner led the campaign for full voting rights for African Americans across the nation.  In the speech below which Stevens gave in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 3, 1867 supporting the Reconstruction
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U.S. Supply of Remdesivir Will Run Out by July, Top Government Official Warns
The U.S. government's supply of remdesivir, the only known drug to treat the coronavirus, will run out at the end of June, said an official with the Department of Health and Human Services.
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DMV Leaders Call on Feds to Supply Vaccines to Essential Employees
The leaders of D.C., Maryland and Virginia pressed the federal government Wednesday to supply coronavirus vaccines for essential federal workers and not use any doses dedicated for those respective
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Opportunities knock for HR experts in crisis
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Groups ask Biden administration to reconsider nuke decision - Black News Channel
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Watchdog groups want the Biden administration to reconsider a decision by a U.S. agency not to conduct a more extensive environmental review related to production of the plutonium cores used in the nation's nuclear arsenal. The
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Nigeria: Revisiting Zamfara's 'Cows for Guns' Amnesty Pact
[Daily Trust] The Zamfara State government in an attempt to quell banditry in the state has initiated a cows-for-guns swap policy. The policy is another amnesty initiative for repentant bandits in the state. The state government first announced the initiative in July, last year, to encourage
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East Africa: Three EAC States to Pay Sh35 Trillion in Debt Servicing
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Is There More COVID Cash Coming to Help Californians?
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Black Farmers Still Waiting for Fair Share of Federal Funds
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This Day in History — October 22
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Azar praises U.S. response as 'historic,' suggests comorbidities to blame for COVID death rate
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Civil Rights Leaders Demand Relief for Black Businesses Hurt by COVID
Civil rights activists and business leaders want the Biden administration to include targeted funding for Black-owned businesses in the next relief bill.
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Trump administration reverses course on barring many foreign students | New York Carib News
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The Republican embrace of white Christian nationalism
A functioning democracy needs political parties to connect problems with solutions. In the current state of affairs, American democracy has only one effective democratic party. The other one has been drifting toward illiberalism in a trend that started long before Donald Trump became its
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Somalia Football Resume Despite Rising COVID19 Numbers
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