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Italian Lawmaker Is Convinced He’s ‘Darker’ Than Black Caucus Members Amid Ohio Racism Hearing
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Op-Ed: The Intersection Of Rage, Fear And Hope
The hardest thing I had to do last week was explain to my sons why they are hated by certain people, and how their skin color will be weaponized against
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Alex Shumate is Managing Partner, North America for Squire Patton Boggs. In this role, Shumate provides strategic and operational guidance in pursuing new business opportunities regionally, nationally and internationally and in addressing issues arising from the firm’s 18 offices across the
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Scrutinized Northern Virginia school board up for reelection
(The Center Square) — Tuesday's Virginia General Assembly general election will be in the national spotlight as interested parties watch to see if Gov. Glenn Youngkin has been able to keep – and enhance – his support in the purple state. Voters will have to decide, not just on their state repres
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Ohio US Navy Veterans Lung Cancer Advocate Urges the Family of a Navy Veteran or Person with Lung Cancer in Ohio Who Had Significant Exposure to Asbestos to Call the Lawyers at Karst von Oiste To Discuss Compensation
CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA, June 3, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Ohio US Navy Veterans Lung Cancer Advocate says, "We are urging the family of a Navy Veteran or person in Ohio with lung cancer to call us anytime at 800-714-0303-if their loved one also had significant exposure to asbestos prior to
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New GOP Super PAC Follows Tired Anti-Donald Trump Blueprint.
This latest strongarm effort is called The Right Side PAC, and it is touted as being formed by former GOP operatives and influential Republican
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Uganda: Samurai, Uganda Name Safari 7s Squads
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Samurai Barracudas and Uganda have officially announced their lineups for the upcoming Safari 7s scheduled to take place at Nairobi's RFUEA Ground from November 17-19.
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Opinion: The intersection of rage, fear and hope
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(1871) Congressman Robert C. DeLarge, “Speech on the Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment”
Robert Carlos DeLarge served as a Republican member of the U.S. Congress less than a full term. He was elected in 1870 and began his term on March 4, 1871. However he left Congress on January 24, 1873 within two months of the completion of his term when the seat was declared vacant as the result of
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Opinion: The intersection of rage, fear and hope
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How Pittsburgh’s Black business owners are coping amid the pandemic
Talking to Black business owners in Pittsburgh in the wake of the COVID-19 quarantine, you hear a lot of the same things: They’ve applied for loans and have heard nothing
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Leadership Beyond the Church Walls: Thuto Gabaphete
During his term, Thuto led young people of the Kalahari Conference with great diligence and represented the Conference on the 15th Episcopal level, encompassing South Africa, Namibia, and Angola and on the Connectional
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Rays Win Second Consecutive Dana Richardson Flag Football Tournament
Three schools from St. Croix joined three schools from the St. Thomas-St. John district to compete in the Dana Richardson 9 v 9 Flag Football Tournament held on Nov. 2 – 4 at the Joseph Aubain Ballpark on St. Thomas.
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Hive survival guide: What’s triggering them?
They can appear suddenly and go away just as fast, be tiny or big as a plate, move from one place to another, last for a few hours, a week or even longer, and itch or burn like crazy. These red raised welts are hives, also known as urticaria. And, if you’ve ever experienced hives, … Hive survival
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What Can I Do with A Black Studies Major? Five Hundred Answers Provided by Robert Fikes, Jr.
In the 1971 Woody Allen film, “Bananas,” a fellow employee asks Allen’s character, “What would you have been if you finished school?”  Allen’s character answers, “I was in the black studies program. By now I could have been black.”  Allen’s attempted humorous jab
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William Edward Burghardt W. E. B. Du Bois (/d uː ˈ b ɔɪ z/ doo-BOYZ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and
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Nigeria: NDLEA Intercepts Shipment of USA, UK-Bound Opioids in Lady's Synthetic Hair
[Vanguard] Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, DOGI, have intercepted five different parcels containing illicit drugs concealed in ladies' clothes and synthetic hair going to the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Masicka Says ‘Generation Of Kings’ Written For Generations To Come
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Anti-Lynching Advocate
When civil rights crusader Ida B. Wells-Barnett died in 1931, the Chicago Defender described her  as elegant, striking, and always well groomed . . . regal though somewhat intolerant and impulsive. Throughout Wells-Barnetts career as a journalist, social-political organizer and suffragist, she
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Africa Climate Summit: Four ways the continent can influence the global climate agenda
Alice Ruhweza: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 November 2023: The Africa Climate Summit took place from September 4-6 in Nairobi, Kenya, amid climate challenges and opportunities. The confluence of climate shocks, nature loss, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine has eroded much
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Tennessee school leaders advocate for additional funding, not replacing federal
(The Center Square) – Three Tennessee K-12 school superintendents spoke to a committee looking at rejecting federal funding to the state’s schools Tuesday, with Hawkins County Director of Schools Matt Hixson instead suggesting the state continue to accept the federal funds and use extra funds to
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African Americans and Cuba's First Experiment in Tourism: The Joe Louis Commission in Post Revolutionary Havana, 1959-1960
In the article below University of California, Riverside historian Ralph Crowder describes this fascinating but little known attempt by Joe Louis and Fidel Castro to encourage middle class African American tourism to Cuba  in the first year of the new
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Addressing the gaps in growth - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Economic development is not just important to building a strong country – it is a core requirement. It gives a country the ability to withstand the changing tides of the global landscape and manoeuvre through global shocks such as climate change and financial crises. Economic development, in
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St Catherine man drowns after vehicle runs off road near Flat Bridge
A motorist perished in the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine on Sunday after the vehicle he was driving plunged into the Rio Cobre. The deceased  has been identified as Glenford Henclewood, 72 year old, of Cumberland in Portmore, St...
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Newswire: Black man who spent 44 years in prison before he was exonerated gets record $25M settlement
Ronnie Long stands in a hallway at the Albemarle Correctional Institution east of Charlotte, N.C., in 2007.Peter Weinberger / The Charlotte Observer via AP file By Minyvonne Burke, NBC News   A Black North Carolina man who spent 44 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping
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Cops seize pensioner’s pistol after shots fired to scare suspected bandits - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
A 69-year-old pensioner believes he might have foiled a crime after he fired shots at two men who attempted to attack his wife at Penal on Friday night. The man reported to the police that around 10.30 pm he and his wife left their son’s home at Clarke Road driving separate vehicles. A short
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(1874) Congressman Richard Harvey Cain, “All We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation And Equal Rights”
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