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Queer entrepreneurs explain how CBD company is owed to Black, LGBTQ people for Pride

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Bureau of Census report said Black unemployment averaged 9.9 per cent in 1971, compared with a 5.4 per cent rate for whites. The report also said that 31.8 per cent of all Black families were headed by a woman, and increase from the 28 per cent reported in 1970.

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Gropey Joe Biden Thinks He’s an Expert On What Minorities Should Think.

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BET founder Robert Johnson says Dems taking black voters 'for granted,' calls for BLM to form party

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