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Opinion | It’s Not Obesity. It’s Slavery.
It set in motion black people’s diminished access to healthy foods, safe working conditions, medical treatment and a host of other social inequities that negatively impact
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The Importance of Healing the Healers
By LaShawn Gooden, PhD Candidate The Mary Ellen Strong Foundation strives to support African American mental health providers. In addition to contributing to the development of the next generation of psychotherapists, MESF is also devoted to supporting therapists currently working to heal
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Black and Blue Don't Match: Police Officers Kill Another African American | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — It was reminiscent of Eric Garner of Staten Island, NY, who was put in a chokehold by a New York police officer. Garner died from injuries suffered from the chokehold and, like Floyd, could be seen on video struggling to breathe and stating, "I can't breathe."
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Community Members Question Seattle Public Schools’ Commitment To Equity And Inclusion - The Seattle Medium
Seattle Public Schools (SPS) has come under scrutiny about the treatment of African American administrators within the district. Two separate letters about the dismissal, demotion and/or resignation of African Americans who either previously worked or are currently working for the district have
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HBCU Students for Biden and Black Students for Biden: 'Four More Years of Trump Means Death for Many African Americans' | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Just how crucial will the engagement of Black students, including those from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) be in the 2020 election? Black Students for Biden and HBCU Students for Biden say that it could mean the difference between life and death for many African
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NAACP launches #WeAreDoneDying Campaign to take action against killings of African Americans
Washington, D.C. – The NAACP has launched its #WeAreDoneDying campaign, aimed at exposing the inequities embedded into the American health care system and the country at
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Ghana's Minister of Tourism to Black Americans: 'come home to Africa'
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After 4 Years Of Marriage I Found Out My Husband Is Gay
My ex-husband and I dated for three years and decided to get married. And our married life was great at first. We had lots of good times—bad ones too—but we were like best friends.
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NBA Contributes $300 Million to Fund First Ever NBA Foundation
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Bewilderment in Black Community Over Ice Cube’s Overture to Pres. Trump
Sean Broadus and his brother Evan Broadus live near the Gilbert Lindsay Community Center in South Central, Los Angeles, less than 20 minutes from where their idol, Ice Cube, grew up. Both are having a hard time processing the hip-hop icon’s revelation that he’s working with Pres. Donald
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NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson
NASA announced it has named one of its headquarters in Washington D.C after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black American female engineer at NASA.
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Harris County GOP chair who assumed role after backlash for racist Facebook post resigns - DefenderNetwork.com
The head of the Republican Party in Texas' largest county has resigned after less than four months on the job. Keith Nielsen, chairman of the GOP in Harris County, home to Houston, submitted a letter of resignation and the party's secretary, Josh Flynn, said he received it Monday morning. The party
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Microsoft to 'double the number of Black and African American people managers'
the number of Black and African American people managers, senior individual contributors the number of Black- and African American-owned approved suppliers over the will also encourage Black and African American representation progress in our top
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Celebs Fuel #SayHerName Campaign & Seek Justice for Breonna Taylor | L.A. Focus Newspaper
Black women and girls as young as 7 and as old as 93 have been killed by the police, but with the recent exception of Breonna Taylor—their names are rarely
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We Have a Right to Be Angry! Free Press of Jacksonville
By Dr. Rev. Ralph E. Williamson, Contributing Writer This morning, we are awakened with heavy hearts burdened with a heavy load of worry, care, anger, and frustration. In the last several months, we have [...]
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The Commitment March for 2020: Get your knee off our necks | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Marc H. Morial (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“And so this march must go beyond this historic moment. We must support the strong. We must give courage to the timid. We must remind the indifferent, … Continued
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US calls on Granger gov't to step aside, announces visa restrictions on individuals undermining democracy - Stabroek News
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today announced visa restrictions on individuals undermining democracy here and said that the Granger administration must respect the results of democratic elections and step
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OP-ED: Past Due Time for American Healthcare System to Protect Black Americans
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Because of the systematic racism that is rooted in our nation, racial disparities in American healthcare have caused illness, injury, and death in minority communities across the country. Black Americans suffer the most at the hands of the American healthcare system. Now, we are
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Fans slam Waka Flocka Flame for suggesting Trump is a better president than Obama - TheGrio
Waka Flocka Flame is no stranger to controversy but this week he is facing heightened backlash after suggesting that President... View Article The post Fans slam Waka Flocka Flame for suggesting Trump is a better president than Obama appeared first on TheGrio.
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Morehouse School of Medicine Dean Takes Coronavirus Vaccine On CNN, Urging Black People To Trust Science
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The Black Card: Black Has Been Capitalized. Now What?
By Terry AllenColumnist I called one of my community moms, Mary McFall, Esq. I celebrated with her that, as an NABJ Board member, we had issued a statement updating our
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NAACP Black Media Forum Excludes Black Newspapers NNPA President and Black Publishers Call for Clarification and Inclusion
“In 2020, for there to be a virtual panel on Black Media and not invite or involve the NNPA or any of our member publishers to be on the panel goes beyond a mere oversight,” said NNPA President/CEO Benjamin Chavis in an interview about the May 20
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Uganda: 2021 - MPs Reject Digital Campaigns
[Monitor] Members of Parliament (MPs) sitting on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee yesterday rejected the Electoral Commission's (EC) decision banning open public rallies ahead of the 2021 General Elections.
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NAACP Black Media Forum excludes Black newspapers
NNPA President and Black Publishers Call for Clarification and – A recent NAACP “Black Media Speaks” forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy Black-owned newspapers was all but pronounced
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JLP could create upset in Westmoreland, Samuda declares
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ national popularity could help the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) create a political upset by snatching at least one seat in Westmoreland, a parish that has long been a People’s National Party (PNP...
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Uganda: 2021 Polls - New Roadmap Challenged in High Court
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Minnesota activist argues 'defund the police' about 'equal treatment,' not dismantling law enforcement
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Sauce: New Series Asks Is There A Recipe For Redemption When It Comes To Sexual Assault
Emmy-nominated writer and director, Dui Jarrod, in collaboration with iOne Digital's A Space For Creators, comes a provocative new web series titled Sauce. The Black female-led production touches on the layered subject of sexual assault, asking the question, is there a recipe for redemption?
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Netflix to shift $100 million in cash into Black-owned banks - DefenderNetwork.com
Netflix Inc. will shift as much as $100 million to lenders that serve the Black community, making it the largest company yet to pledge cash to historically underfunded financial institutions. The online TV giant will start by shifting $25 million into the Black Economic Development
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