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Sierra Leone Commercial Bank urges customers to use Visa and mobile banking
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 June 2020: As the world moves gradually away from use of paper currency to cashless transactions, which carry the convenience of safety and security from theft, management of Sierra Leone Commercial Bank, the country’s largest profitable financial service provider has
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
‘National Treasure’ Anthony Hamilton Interviewed at NNPA Virtual Conference
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Hamilton, the first R&B artist to sell an album at Cracker Barrel, joined BlackPressUSA’s #FIYAH! LIVE for a special interview, during the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) 2020 virtual conference.
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NNPA Salutes Attorney Benjamin Crump and The Crump Law Firm in Memory and Honor of the Family of George Floyd | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Benjamin Crump has earned recognition as a freedom fighting lawyer who doesn’t hesitate to defend the life and legacy of African Americans harmed by police violence and racially motivated acts. He currently represents the families of Ahmad Arberry, George Floyd and other Black men
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ACC Czar speaks about the collapse of the missing Chinese rice court trial
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 July 2020: Last Thursday, 16th July 2020 in Freetown, High Court Judge - Justice Cosmotina Jarrette discharged former Minister of Basic Education - Alpha Osman Timbo; Emily Kadiatu Gogra - Deputy Minister of Basic Education; Charles T. Kamanda; Mamusu Massaquoi and Zainab
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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FILM REVIEW — John Lewis: Civil Rights Lion Gets into Good Trouble in Dawn Porter Documentary
NNPA NEWSWIRE — On what would be called Bloody Sunday, Lewis, who at the time was Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) along with other civil rights lions like Reverend Hosea Williams (SCLC) continued on their march despite then Governor Wallace’s threats and were
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Patti LaBelle Remembers Making Black Music History at The Metropolitan Opera House
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Dr. Yumkella speaks about Sierra Leone’s judiciary as parliament approves Appeals Court Judges
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 June 2020: Democracy was at work in Sierra Leone’s parliament yesterday, when the main opposition APC party, led by  Honourable Chernoh Ramadan Maju Bah voted against two of the eight presidential nominees put forward by president Julius Maada Bio for MPs approval. The
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
World Bank approves $30 million IDA grant to boost agriculture in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 July 2020: The World Bank Board of Executive Directors, on Tuesday approved a $30 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to support agricultural productivity and access to markets for smallholder farmer-agribusiness in Sierra Leone. According to the
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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55 years of failed promises -  finally the criminal libel law of Sierra Leone is close to repeal
Rodney Michael: Sierra Leone telegraph: 21 July 2020: It was 55 years ago, under the SLPP Government led by Prime Minister Albert Margai, when the Public Order Act of 1965 was introduced in Sierra Leone, with some very strong condemnation of the sections relating to the Criminal Libel Law. Many
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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World Bank approves $50 million grant to improve quality of  education in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2020: The World Bank Board of Executive Directors yesterday approved a $50 million grant to support the Government of Sierra Leone’s flagship program for Free Quality School Education launched in 2018. According to the World Bank, the Free Education Project will
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
LIVESTREAM — #SaveLocalJournaism #10: THE BLACK PRESS SAVING BLACK LIVES | BlackPressUSA
How many times per day/week/month/year do you encounter the expression, the leading cause of death? Those words are usually preceded by a health status, living condition, economic condition or age range. But the reality is that those statements are nearly always conditioned differently if youre
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Portrait of former president Koroma brought to court at Dr Blyden’s libel trial
Gabriel Kai Moses: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2020: A portrait of the Former President of Sierra Leone Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma was today, Tuesday June 30th 2020, tendered in evidence at the Freetown Magistrate Court No. 1 by the State in support of its libel allegations against one [Read More]
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Celebrities Make News on BlackPressUSA’s #FIYAH! Livestreams
NNPA NEWSWIRE — They’ve included Los Angeles Lakers Legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar, hip-hop icons Chuck D, Ice Cube, Russell Simmons, and Big Daddy Kane. They’ve also included important conversations with civil rights attorney Ben Crump, Congresswoman Karen Bass, Ben & Jerry’s CEO Michael
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#FIYAH! — 6.6.20 — ONE-ON-ONE with KEITH ELLISON, MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL | BlackPressUSA
MINNESOTA — I just want to let everyone know that were going to bring to bear all the resources necessary to achieve justice in this case, said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ellison spoke at the press conference announcing the decision by Gov. Tim Walz to transfer the investigation and
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Mercury Prize: Stormzy, Kano and Michael Kiwanuka all make shortlist - Voice Online
STORMZY, KANO and Michael Kiwanuka are all among the artists whose albums have been shortlisted... The post Mercury Prize: Stormzy, Kano and Michael Kiwanuka all make shortlist appeared first on Voice Online.
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What I Learned From Jill Scott's Debut Album 'Who Is Jill Scott?'
Jill Scott's language is love. Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the singer's debut offering, Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds, Vol. 1. The interrogative was strictly for new […] The post What I Learned From Jill Scott's Debut Album 'Who Is Jill Scott?' appeared first on Essence.
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President Bio unveils Digital Health Learning Platforms for healthcare workers in Bonthe
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2020: In Mattru Jong, Bonthe District in Southern Sierra Leone yesterday, Friday 3 July 2020 , President Dr Julius Maada Bio introduced a Mobile Training and Support (MOTS) digital learning platform, whilst also unveiling the pilot distribution of laboratory equipment
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Biden Surrogates Tout ‘Plan for America’
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Staging frequent media briefings where surrogates tout Biden’s message remains a regular occurrence of the campaign. On Tuesday, July 21, former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance
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Congress Moves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act Measure Forward | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We call it the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and I call it historic because this is the first time in many years that Congress has taken up a bill dealing with policing and I’m sure it is the first time that Congress has introduced such a bold transformative piece of
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African Union Commission congratulates newly elected President of the Republic of Malawi
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 June 2020: Following the announcement last Saturday of presidential election results in Malawi by the country’s electoral commission, the African Union Commission has published this statement, congratulating the winner Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera: “The Chairperson of
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Is Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr caught between a rock and a hard place?
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2020: As Mayor of the municipality of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr has received widespread praise for her stewardship of the city from various quarters. Despite this, she has been walking a tight rope between a government with an uncertain
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Singer Elle Varner on Creating in Quarantine, Starting A Label, and COVID-19s Impact on the Music Industry
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White man allegedly posed as a protester to vandalize buildings in Minneapolis | BlackPressUSA
ROLLING OUT — The video, posted by Twitter user @dyllyp, shows a White man, dressed in all-black with a gas mask on his face, knocking out windows at an AutoZone in Minneapolis. Many believe that he helped to start the vandalism that turned into chaos on the night of May 28.
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Carlos Santana’s star arrived on the era-defining late 1960s San Francisco Bay Area music scene with historic shows at the Fillmore and other storied venues. The group emerged onto the global stage with an epic set at the Woodstock festival in 1969, the same year that its
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Cornelius Deveaux: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2020: Certainly, right thinking Sierra Leoneans and by extension the wider citizenry, will be appalled by a post on the official Facebook page of the SLPP government Ministry of Information and Communications, intending to purport that Sierra
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Its business as usual in Wu-tang Clan: Of Mics & Men - Voice Online
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LIVESTREAM REPLAY — "Black Mental Health in the Age of COVID and Civil Unrest" | BlackPressUSA
VIDEO — May is Mental Health Month. The NNPA's Dr. Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D along with Dr. Kanika Bell Dr. Jimmy Davis — Professors of Psychology at Clark Atlanta University — discuss the pandemic and society's reaction to it.
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