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Bob Moses, Civil Rights Legend, Dead at 86
Bob Moses, one of America's foremost civil rights leaders who stood fearless in the face of violence to register African American voters in the South, has died. He was 86. The post Bob Moses, Civil Rights Legend, Dead at 86 appeared first on The Washington Informer.
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Rebooting Amaila Falls Hydropower Project - Stabroek News
As it vowed it would do after acceding to office on August 2nd last year, the PPP/C government has formally served notice that the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) is back on the agenda with the expectation that construction will begin in the second half of next
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Coleman and Brown, serial killer couple who went on a raping and killing spree across six states in 1984
Alton Coleman and Debra Brown had committed at least eight murders, seven rapes, three kidnappings and 14 armed robberies by the time they were arrested on July 20, 1984. For two months, Coleman and Brown terrorized the American Midwest, from the elderly to children. Coleman was so dangerous that
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Caricom Chairman confirms regional solidarity to Haiti | New York Carib News
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – The Chairman of the 15-member regional grouping, the Caribbean Community (Caricom), has sought to assure Haitians that the region stands in solidarity with their country. In an address on Friday at the funeral service held for late Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was
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Brown Named Deputy Chief for STJ; Newton to Direct Internal Affairs
Police Lt. Clayton Brown has been appointed deputy chief of police for the island of St. John, and Vivianne P. Newton as director of the Internal Affairs and Applicant Screening Bureau
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Obese Men May Have Better Survival With Advanced Prostate Cancer | BlackDoctor.org - Where Wellness & Culture Connect
African American men are 1.8 times more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer and 2.2 times more likely to die from prostate cancer than white men. Black males also have a slightly higher risk of being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. However, the good news is that Black men have a 97
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Frontier Airlines Accused Black Woman Of Human Trafficking While Traveling With 4-Year-Old White Sister
Allegedly, the airlines falsely accused her of trafficking when a passenger questioned why she was traveling with her younger adoptive sister Olivia, who is White.
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Biden Nominates Nick Brown As U.S. Attorney For The Western District Of Washington Morehouse Alum Nicholas W. Brown Nominated By President Biden As U.S. Attorney For Western District Of WashingtonBide
Nicholas W. Brown is President Biden's nominee to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington. If appointed, Brown would become the first African American to serve as U.S. Attorney in the Western District. He is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta.
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Mango latest: Airline heading for business rescue with employees unpaid
The DA called for holding company SAA to 'abandon Mango in order to avoid another state bailout', with the airline's staff unpaid since June.
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Joseph Gomez Teacher Wins Disney Vacation in ViVid Streaming’s “Swag Call” Contest
Joseph Gomez Elementary School fifth grade teacher Roselyn Samuel-Hodge traveled to Orlando, Fla., July 18-24, with her daughter.
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Keisha Lance Bottoms is Named as Honorary HBCU Executive Leadership Institute Fellow
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is the inaugural HBCU Executive Leadership Institute’s (HBCU ELI’s) honorary fellow of the Clark Atlanta University-based effort.
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Jamaica Wants $10.6 Billion in Reparations From Britain for Atlantic Slave Trade 
By: ShaCamree Gowdy Jamaica is seeking $10.6 billion in reparations from the United Kingdom, the former British territory that was the epicenter of the slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries, when Africans were kidnapped, enslaved and forced to work on various plantations.  “We are hoping for
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Khumbo Kachali represents Chakwera at Livingstonia Synod induction of General Secretary
Khumbo Hastings Kachali, erstwhile Vice President of the Republic of Malawi during former President Joyce Banda's unprecedent two-year reign, who is also president of Freedom Party has hailed the positive role played by the CCAP Synod of Livingstonia in the socio-economic development of this
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The good, bad and the ugly of IEBC recruitment
From thorough scrutiny of their academic qualifications to performance in their previous jobs, candidates were put to task to prove their worth.
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Lockdown: Schools reopen despite vandalism, taxi violence and other challenges | News24
Classrooms filled up on Monday as schools reopened for the third term, despite challenges in some provinces.
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KKK Members Working as Corrections Officers Plotted to Kill Black Man
By: Alyssa Wilson An FBI investigation into members of the Ku Klux Klan working as corrections officers revealed the 'inner workings of a modern Klan cell and domestic terrorism probe.'   According to a detailed story by the Associated Press, the story began in August 2013. Thomas
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Milwaukee Fest Is Here! - Milwaukee Community Journal
This Friday July 30th, attend  MilwaukeeFest, a local concert featuring Milwaukee’s best! The entire event is  produced, performed, and executed by Milwaukee natives.  Sponsored by The African American Roundtable (AART), who are an organization that helps unite a network of powerful partners in
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Covid-19: We hope that 7% of teachers will change their mind and vaccinate - Lesufi | News24
Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyazi Lesufi, says as the rollout continues for different groups, he hopes the seven percent of teachers who have refused to be vaccinated will change their minds.
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The Executive Editor At The 'Miami Herald' Responded Publicly To A Racist Email
NPR's A Martinez talks to Monica Richardson, the first black executive editor of the Miami Herald, about why she wrote an open letter responding to a racist email she received.
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Author Talks About The History Of Black Equestrian Erasure
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Katherine Mooney, author of the book Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack, about the erasure of African-Americans in the equestrian world.
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Health Confirms the 36th COVID Death in Territory
A 50-year-old St. Croix man was confirmed Monday as the 36th COVID-19 related death. According to the Department of Health's statistics, the death was the 12th on St. Croix related to the disease. There have been 22 COVID death on St. Thomas/Water Island, and one on St. John.
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Journalist recalls how she cut short her welcome stamp stay after enduring repeated harassment - Barbados Today
Barbados’ so-called culture of sexual violence and harassment against women is once again under the international microscope. This time, the harassment was so bad that Andrea Lo, a freelance journalist from Hong Kong, said she felt compelled to flee the island and abandon her welcome stamp visa
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Africa: Statement of the WHO Global Advisory Committee On Vaccine Safety (GACVS) Covid-19 Subcommittee On Reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) Following Adenovirus Vector Covid-19 Vaccines
Press Release - On 13 and 20 July 2021, the COVID-19 subcommittee of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) met virtually to discuss rare reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) following vaccination with the Janssen and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. Both vaccines use an
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Hunting was for aristocrats and poaching for the poor
The reality however is, poaching in Africa was normalised by Europeans who prided themselves as professional hunters.
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Cape Town school security guard dies after attack by robbers | News24
Transport disruptions and a security guard getting killed during a robbery marred the reopening of schools in the Western Cape after the extended Covid-19 break.
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What New Research Reveals About Black Americans and COVID-19 | Atlanta Daily World
The numbers are indisputable: Over the past year, the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked deadly havoc upon Black communities nationwide, and has touched lives close enough that most African Americans know personally of someone who has succumbed to it, or are otherwise connected to someone who
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SHOWTIME® Donates $500,000 for South and West Side Neighborhood Beautification and Arts Projects | Chicago Defender
Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot joined Puja Vohra, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for SHOWTIME, and cast members from its Chicago-based hit show “The Chi,” along with community leaders, today to announce a $500,000 donation from the network to the City’s Greencorps Chicago green job
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#BTColumn – Root cause analyses matters - Barbados Today
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados TODAY Inc. by Trevor Browne “After decades of being categorised as ‘under-developed’, in the last 30 years or so, China has been largely run by engineers and
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Life expectancy gains bring hope - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
There are two potential and opposite trends to be gleaned from the 2020 American life expectancy numbers released last week, and it’s up to us to speed the one that will benefit us all. The first tre
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Costa Rican Gymnast Luciana Alvarado Honors Black Lives Matter During Floor Routine At Olympics - Blavity
Costa Rican gymnast Luciana Alvarado uses her floor routine to stand up for Black Lives Matter.
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