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Big Ten Scraps Nonconference Football Games due to Pandemic - Black News Channel
By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer/ BNC Contributor  The Big Ten Conference announced Thursday it will not play nonconference games in football and several other sports this fall, the most dramatic move yet by a power conference because of the coronavirus pandemic. The league cited medical advice in
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Florida Site of GOP Convention Orders Wearing of Masks - Black News Channel
By TAMARA LUSH and EMILY SCHMALL Associated Press/ BNC Contributor The city of Jacksonville, Florida, where President Donald Trump plans to accept the Republican nomination in August, ordered the wearing of face coverings Monday, joining the list of state and local governments reversing course to
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Biden's Iowa hires signal tightening in state Trump won big - Black News Channel
By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Joe Biden's presidential campaign has lined up a senior team in Iowa, a sign Democrats see the state where Republican Donald Trump beat them handily in 2016 as within reach. Although Iowa's six Electoral College votes hardly make the state
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Redskins to have thorough review of name amid race debate - Black News Channel
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Redskins began a thorough review of their nickname Friday, a significant step toward moving on from what experts and advocates call a dictionary-defined racial slur. Even though owner Dan Snyder had shown no willingness to change
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Big Mac Racism at McDonald’s - Black News Channel
By Whitney Gresham and Trevor W. Coleman II at The Michigan Chronicle For more than 50 years, the McDonald’s Corporation took pride in branding itself as a socially conscious corporation particularly interested in doing business in abandoned and long-ignored Black communities while embracing racial
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Oklahoma States Gundy takes pay cut in wake of T-shirt flap - Black News Channel
AP/ BNC Contributor STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy took a $1 million pay cut and had his contract shortened by a year as part of an internal review prompted by sharp criticism from his star running back for wearing a T-shirt promoting a far-right news channel. Athletic
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Protesters: Remove Statues of Slave Kneeling Before Lincoln - Black News Channel
By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press/ BNC Contributor Calls are intensifying for the removal of twin Emancipation memorials in Washington, D.C., and Boston that depict a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincolns feet — optics that jar and offend many in a nation confronting racial injustice through
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Howard Lands Big Name in Mens Basketball - Black News Channel
By David Johnson/ BNC Digital Reporter Washington D.C. (BNC) Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) member Howard University landed five-star basketball prospect Makur Maker from Phoenix, AZ Friday morning. The 7 footer was ranked 17th in the class of 2020, and stirred headlines as he turned down
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Kansas City Mayor Called Racist Slur After Requiring Masks - Black News Channel
AP/ BNC Contributor KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas Citys Black mayor said Monday that he was called a racist slur and told he should swing from a tree after he announced mandatory face masks in the Missouri city. Mayor Quinton Lucas on Twitter shared a screenshot of the texts, which came after he
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Adidas HR Head Resigns as Company Addresses Diversity Issues - Black News Channel
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer/BNC Contributer NEW YORK (AP) — The head of global human resources at sports apparel and shoe company Adidas resigned Tuesday following criticism from employees of what they see as the companys failure to diversify its workforce. Karin Parkins resignation comes
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NY count: 6,300 virus patients were sent to nursing homes - Black News Channel
By MARINA VILLENEUVE and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes during the height of the pandemic under a controversial, now-scrapped policy, state officials said Monday, but they argued it
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Move to rename Bloody Sunday bridge has critics in Selma - Black News Channel
By JAY REEVES Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the bridge became a global landmark when civil rights
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Herman Cain Treated for COVID-19 after Attending Trump Rally - Black News Channel
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press/BNC Contributor WASHINGTON (AP) — 2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain is being treated for the coronavirus at an Atlanta-area hospital, according to a statement posted on his Twitter account Thursday. Its not clear when or where Cain was infected, but he
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Country music reckons with racial stereotypes and its future - Black News Channel
By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When country singer Rissi Palmer was working on her debut album, she wanted a song like Gretchen Wilsons Redneck Woman, a song that would introduce her and tell her story to fans. On her 2007 debut single, Country Girl, she
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LeBron James Group Touts Sports Venues as Mega-voting sites - Black News Channel
By BILL BARROW Associated Press/BNC Contributor ATLANTA (AP) — If basketball icon LeBron James gets his way, NBA arenas and other sports venues around the country will be mega polling sites for the November general election. James and his voting rights group, formed this spring with other black
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Plan Advances to Allow Dismantling Minneapolis Police Dept. - Black News Channel
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press/ BNC Contributor MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously advanced a proposal to change the city charter to allow the police department to be dismantled, following widespread criticism of law enforcement over the
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Grizzlies Morant Apologizes for Anti-Police Post - Black News Channel
By AP/BNC Contributor MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis Grizzlies rookie guard Ja Morant posted and deleted an Instagram photo suggesting hed replace his name with an expletive on his number 12 jersey in a protest against police. Morant apologized Sunday night, saying the message didnt accurately
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Citing racial bias, San Francisco will end mug shots release - Black News Channel
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police will stop releasing the mug shots of people who have been arrested unless they pose a threat to the public, as part of an effort to stop perpetuating racial stereotypes, the citys police chief announced Wednesday. San
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Redskins to Have Thorough Review of Name - Black News Channel
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer/BNC Contributor WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Redskins began a thorough review of their name Friday, a significant step toward moving on from what experts and advocates call a dictionary-defined racial slur. Even though owner Dan Snyder had shown no willingness
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NBA, Players Sign Off on Final Terms for Restarted Season - Black News Channel
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer/ BNC Contributor The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association have finalized terms of the deal that will allow the league to restart the season at the Disney World campus near Orlando, Florida next month. The league and the union made the announcement
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Strike for Black Lives to Highlight Racism - Black News Channel
By AARON MORRISON Associated Press/ BNC Contributor NEW YORK (AP) — A national coalition of labor unions, along with racial and social justice organizations, will stage a mass walkout from work this month, as part of an ongoing reckoning on systemic racism and police brutality in the U.S. Dubbed
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NFL, NFLPA Still havent Resolved all Protocol for Camps - Black News Channel
By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer/ BNC Contributor The NFL and the NFLPA havent come to an agreement on all protocols for training camp and the preseason as the report date for teams draws closer. The two sides finalized the protocols regarding team travel, media, and treatment response, and
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NASCAR Releases Photo Of Noose, Says Its Only One At Its Tracks
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Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low again - Black News Channel
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again as the virus resumes its rapid spread and the number of hospitalized patients
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Ex-Bush Officials Launch Super PAC Backing Biden over Trump - Black News Channel
By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press/BNC Contributor WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of former George W. Bush administration and campaign officials have launched a new super PAC supporting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the latest in a growing number of Republican groups to come out in
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Supreme Court rules Manhattan DA can obtain Trump taxes - Black News Channel
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a prosecutors demand for President Donald Trumps tax returns as part of a criminal investigation that includes hush-money payments to women who claim they had affairs with Trump. The court ruled 7-2 in a case in
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Saint Augustines University football player encouraging African Americans to learn to swim with free lessons - African American News Today - EIN News
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Doctors say experimental treatment may have rid man of HIV - Black News Channel
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer A Brazilian man infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body, doctors reported Tuesday. The case
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Masked or not, high school football players continue to grind behind the scenes | BlackPressUSA
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — With a lot of factors contributing to the continued spread of the virus, local football players Kendall Guess, Robert Johnson and Cameron Miller, all share the same desire – for people to stay safe during this time. They are hopeful about the future. “By stepping
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Kanye West Breaks with Trump, Claims 2020 Run is not a Stunt - Black News Channel
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