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On the heels of the Jessica Krug controversy, yet another white academic has come clean about pretending to be a... View Article The post UW-Madison teaching assistant resigns after admitting to lying about being Black appeared first on TheGrio.
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Pregnant women of color more likely to get COVID - TheGrio
Pregnant women of color are more likely to get infected with COVID-19 and face hospitalization. The Center for Disease Control... View Article The post Pregnant women of color more likely to get COVID appeared first on TheGrio.
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COMMENTARY: There’s something more important than Kamala
NNPA NEWSWIRE — If government-endorsed and recognized White militias, White supremacists, White nationalists, Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, Proud Boys, Boogaloo Brothers, 13 Percenters and other haters conspire to kidnap and kill one of their own kind, what in the hell do you think they will do
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White woman in Sacramento gets punched after calling Black woman the N-word - TheGrio
A woman in California learned the hard way that it doesnt pay to use racial slurs against Black people in public after she got punched in the face for hurling the N-word at a Black woman. READ MORE: Black male student group raises more than 50K for Black Lives Matter According to TMZ, the
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Popular YouTube twins focus on ‘Fallin’” – Florida Courier
BY CHRISTI CARRAS LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS YouTube sensations Tim and Fred Williams have fallen in love with Alicia Keys after hearing her song “Fallin’ ” for the first time — and Keys has taken notice. On Aug. 16, the Grammy winner responded to a reaction video uploaded this month by the 22-year-old
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Rights groups donate to Chikurubi prison
BY LORRAINE MUROMO ZIMBABWE’s three leading human rights lobby groups — Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and Zimbabwe Human Rights Association — have donated personal protective equipment and jerseys worth US$1 824 to inmates at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison to help
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Voter Suppression Goes to College | Dallas Weekly
If preliminary data estimates on the recent 2020 primaries in North Carolina are accurate, student voters on HBCU campuses must raise their turnout game come the general election this November.
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Man arrested for the 2002 murder, mutilation of Florida teen
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Top Methodist missionary Maokomatanda dies
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US long-term mortgage rates flat; 30-year stays at 2.73% - Black News Channel
By Associated Press Undefined WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates were flat this week for a second straight week. Home-loan rates stayed near record lows as the economy, especially in the services sector, remains burdened by the coronavirus pandemic. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported
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By The Associated Press undefined RICHMOND, Va. — More than 550 people have tested positive for the coronavirus at colleges and universities in Virginia. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported it surveyed 41 four-year colleges across the state. It found at least 558 positive cases. Twenty-one
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Nas, Lil Kim and more icons attend groundbreaking of Bronx hip-hop museum - TheGrio
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20-Year-Old White Oregon Man Brags About Destroying a Memorial. It Was for a Black Man Who Took His Own Life After Losing His Father to Cancer.
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