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The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the homeless. Not only has it disrupted the philanthropic efforts of many charities and individuals, but it has also resulted in the downscaling of outreach and charitable projects. One organisation...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
California Reopens More Widely as Infections Hit Lowest Rate - Black Voice News
More of California was cleared to reopen additional businesses Tuesday, including most of the San Francisco Bay Area and one of Southern California's largest counties, as coronavirus infection rates have fallen to their lowest level of the pandemic. Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state health secretary, also
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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California
Cuthbert Flynn vows to champion women’s health issues
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Tracing African Caribbean history: Who do you think you are? - Voice Online
OCTOBER IS Black History Month and Hertfordshire Libraries are celebrating in many ways. There is... The post Tracing African Caribbean history: Who do you think you are? appeared first on Voice Online.
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Portland Sees Another Night Of Protests But Lower Turnout At Right-Wing Rally
Thousands were expected to attend the Proud Boys-sponsored event but only hundreds showed up.
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Citi creates $1B initiative to close the racial wealth gap - DefenderNetwork.com
Citi and the Citi Foundation today announced more than $1 billion in strategic initiatives to help close the racial wealth gap and increase economic mobility in the United States. Citi’s Action for Racial Equity is a comprehensive approach to 1) providing greater access to banking and credit in
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Bartlett now longest-serving Cabinet minister
Ed Bartlett has penned his name in the record books of Jamaican politics, now emerging as the longest-serving Cabinet minister in the Executive, and the first individual to be appointed Tourism Minister three times.He is also the longest-serving tourism minister in the Caribbean.
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California NAACP president aids corporate prop campaigns — collects $1.2 million and counting - Black Voice News
In summary Alice Huffman, who is both a professional campaign consultant and long-time NAACP leader, was especially sought after this year as political campaigns respond to the national reckoning over race. Read through the voter handbook for California’s November election, and a name pops up over
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Los carteles mexicanos están usando drones para eliminar rivales en la guerra por los territorios el el tráfico de drogas | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Las organizaciones criminales mexicanas están utilizando sofisticados dispositivos técnicos para tomar el control de territorios regidos por 37 cárteles de la droga que operan en el país. El Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, uno de los más violentos y peligrosos, ha comenzado a utilizar drones
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Africa: Beijing +25 - Overcoming 21st Century Challenges to Deliver for Africa's Women
[Africa Renewal] The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action signed in 1995 committed the world to ending discrimination, promoting women's rights and advancing gender equality and women's empowerment.
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Props to You Event: Wait, Didn’t We Vote On These Already? - Black Voice News
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GOP: Ungodly ‘Group-Think’ | Afram News
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Hearing on Public Safety Reform in Birmingham Set for Oct. 1 
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Jamaican eyes history as Florida mayor
Jamaican Kay Maragh is hoping that she will be the first woman, person of colour, and Caribbean immigrant to be elected mayor of Palm Bay in Florida. Maragh, a registered Democrat, will face off against a Republican opponent on November 3. The...
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Mnangagwa is stoppable: Chamisa
Main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said he will today use his second e-rally to tell the nation that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime is stoppable despite its show of invincible power and heavy crackdown on dissenting voices, NewsDay Weekender has learnt. BY Brenna
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Lowenfield arrested as elections probe widens - Stabroek News
As the criminal investigation into the attempts to manipulate the results of the March 2nd polls widens, Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield was yesterday arrested in connection with allegations of criminal conduct and subsequently released on station bail after invoking his right to
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Holness reassures full support for security forces
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday expressed deep sadness at the killing of 27-year-old Police Constable Kemar Francis who was shot while patrolling on Pretoria Road in the Maxfield Avenue area Friday night.
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UN chief calls for immediate end to fighting over Nagorny Karabakh
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‘We're Coming for Our 40 Acres’: Daughter of Co-Writer of ‘Let’s Get It On’ Calls Out Singer Ed Sheeran, Record Labels as Copyright Suit Nears Trial
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TikTok fate in the balance as judge weighs app store ban - Black News Channel
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO and MATT O'BRIEN AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for TikTok pleaded with a U.S. federal judge on Sunday to delay the Trump Administration's ban of the popular video sharing program from app stores set to take effect at the end of the day, arguing the move would
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Angolan Corruption Case Snares Irene Neto
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Jamaica's Michael Manley and his democratic socialism and solidarity with Black Africa - Face2Face Africa
In 1972, Michael Manley, son of Jamaica’s Founding Father, took his People’s National Party to a landslide victory over the conservative Jamaica Labour Party. It was the first time in Jamaica’s history that a party, formerly a bastion of Brown-skinned and bourgeoisie Jamaicans, had appealed to the
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No criminal charges in killing of Taylor – Florida Courier
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Cameroon – Repression of protests and attacks against the media must be investigated
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Death to those who kill police, soldiers chants Rowe
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