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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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Indians Fell In Love With Amazon’s Alexa, Proposed 6,000 Times A Day In 2020 – The Wilmington Journal
Indians said “I love you” to Amazon’s Alexa 19,000 times a day in 2020 and got an equal number of bedtime story requests. Indians even proposed Alexa 6,000 times a day. “Many customers found a [...]
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1.6 million dollars will be allocated towards rental assistance for the Los Angeles areas in the First District.
Thursday, May 14, The Los Angeles Operation Center shared news surrounding the adjustments made in the COVID-19 recovery
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Kenya: Lawyer Paul Gicheru Allowed to Attend ICC Pre-Trial Conference Virtually
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru who is facing accusations of witness tampering at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been allowed to attend his first status conference virtually.
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O.J. Simpson Shares COVID Scare, Says He Feared Death
O.J. Simpson says a severe case of COVID-19 last year left him gasping for air and fearing his time had run out. The post O.J. Simpson Shares COVID Scare, Says He Feared Death appeared first on The Washington Informer.
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Survivor Working To Close Gap In Breast Cancer Deaths In African American Community
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A mother who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer when her sons were young is hoping her story helps empower other
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COVID-19 Not the Only Health Threat in Town
“The number of trauma cases we are seeing now are down some 10-12 percent from last year,” said Jeffrey Kerby, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Acute Care Surgery in the UAB Department of Surgery, part of the School of
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Atlanta Food and Wine Festival returns to Atlanta This Weekend | The Atlanta Voice
After going virtual for its 10th Anniversary last year, the Atlanta Food and Wine Festival is making its debut at the Historic Fourth Ward Park this weekend.  The festival includes wine pop-ups, all-inclusive tasting tents, live intimate brunches and lunches from culinary talents and chefs across
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Archaeologists Conduct Research That Leads Them to Ancestral Home of Harriet Tubman’s Father in Maryland - The New York Beacon
Archaeologists in Maryland say they believe they have found the homesite of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s father. The homesite of Ben Ross was found on property acquired last year by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an addition to Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, officials
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Never-ending misery for crisis-hit Zimbabweans – Ne
Tafadzwa Chakwara sits on a wooden crate, his elbow resting comfortably on a neat stack of packed onions atop his market stall. — Aljazeera “Life is just tough now,” the 27-year-old says, taking a puff from his cigarette. “It doesn’t matter whether one has a formal job or an informal one.” In
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Kenya: Qatar Will Be Your Professional Graveyard 'Engineer' Olunga, Do Not Go There for Now
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Embry-Riddle salutes military service chief, a university graduate –
DAYTONA BEACH – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University salutes alumnus Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. on his unanimous confirmation, in a 98-0 vote by the United States Senate on June 9 as the first African American service chief in the history of the U.S. armed
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Zimbabwe: Only 10% Vulnerable Citizens Received Govt Covid-19 Grants - Afrobarometer
[New Zimbabwe] ONLY 10% of the population managed to access the social support grants from the government during the Covid-19 induced national lockdown, a new survey released this week by Afrobarometer reveals.
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Report Finds Black Girls 5 Times More Likely To Be Suspended From School Than White Peers - Blavity
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AP: Trooper kicked, dragged Black man who died in custody - BNC
By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press A Louisiana State Police trooper has been suspended without pay for kicking and dragging a handcuffed Black man whose in-custody death remains unexplained and the subject of a federal civil rights investigation. Body camera footage shows Master Trooper Kory York
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The couple who found love at Sigma Run
When committed triathletes Ayanna Samuels and Balwayne Phillips trained for the 20th staging of the Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run in 2018, they had no idea that the universe had plans to change their lives forever.
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Yanomami men killed by illegal gold miners in northern Brazil, tribe says
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Africa: Turkey and France Ease Tensions, but Africa Rivalries Remain
[VOA] Istanbul -- Leaders of Turkey and France are pledging to ease tensions after months of trading insults, but tensions between them remain over their competing interests in Africa.
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ComEd Urges Customers to Act Now to Take Advantage of Millions in Bill-Assistance Dollars | The Crusader Newspaper Group
In 2020, ComEd connected customers to a record amount of assistance As the one-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic nears, ComEd recognizes that families and businesses are still dealing with continued financial challenges and urges customers with past-due balances to call the
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Africa: Let's See If Life Will Go Back to Normal After Anti-Racism Protests
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Kaie Kellough’s Magnetic Equator: An Appreciation in Guyanese-Diasporic-Quarantine
The announcement Tuesday morning (May 19th) that Kaie Kellough had won Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize—one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world—for his mesmerizing poetry collection, Magnetic Equator —marks an historical moment in the literary histories of diasporic Guyanese and
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Exclusive: For Her Daughter’s Sake, Charmaine Walker Says You Won’t See Her Fighting Again On Black Ink Crew
We talked with Charmaine Walker of Black Ink Crew about how motherhood changed the woman she wants to be in everyday life and on TV, dealing with simultaneous grief and joy during the pandemic, the snapback culture vultures on social media, and the good and bad of reality TV.
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In the wake of Nelson Mandela’s passing on December 5, 2013, tributes came forth from around the world and more than 100 heads of state attended his memorial service in South Africa.  One such tribute, a eulogy to Madiba (his clan name), was paid at the Seattle Rotary Club meeting on December
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