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N.Y. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced two amendments to a housing appropriations bill that would defund two rules before they can take effect.
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Colorado Restraint & Drug Death Should Be Investigated for Racism Link CCHR Says
use following death of African American LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, , that was injected into African American, Elijah McClain, 23, has been created where African Americans are perceived as “violent effect of stereotyping African Americans will be addressed
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Africa: Unite Human, Animal and Environmental Health to Prevent the Next Pandemic - UN Report
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IMF forecasts deeper Latin America recession in 2020
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is forecasting a nearly double-digit recession for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020 — a contraction of 9.4 per cent — as the region is dragged down by its two largest economies which continue to suffer from the novel
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Arthur W. Mitchell
Born: 12/22/1883 Lafayette, AlabamaDied: 5/9/1968 Petersburg, VirginiaArthur W. Mitchell was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Mitchell was the first African American to be elected to the United States Congress as a Democrat.Mitchell was elected to the House of Representatives in 1934, defeating
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Risk of early reopening of int’l borders
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Rosa Parks
Born: 2/4/1913 Tuskegee, AlabamaDied: 10/24/2005 Detroit, MichiganRosa Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement.On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey
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Tensions as DRC, Zambia border dispute escalate [Morning Call]
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Scott, Robert “Bobby” (1947- )
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US Congress members urge President to ensure `internationally recognized’ declaration of results
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Racism, In All Its Forms, Will Kill. It Kills People, It Kills Communities, it Kills Dreams, it Kills Hope – Free Press of Jacksonville
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Black Women Founders Bring COVID-19 Screening Stations to Schools, Offices, Prisons and More
Two entrepreneurs — Lynda M. Dorman, CEO and Carolyn E. Howell, President of Orange Wall Enterprises — have made history as the first Black women to sign a distribution and licensing deal for autonomous screening stations that recognize the initial symptoms of
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