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Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientist Could Hamper Biden’s Ability to Negotiate with Tehran – The Wilmington Journal
The murder of Iranian nuclear expert looms large over President-elect Joe Biden’s ability to restore America’s ties with Tehran and save the nuclear deal he helped negotiate when he was vice president. Iran’s parliament passed [...]
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James Comey: Trump should not be prosecuted after WH exit - TheGrio
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump's made-up claims of fake Georgia votes - Black News Channel
By HOPE YEN, JEFF AMY and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press President Donald Trump put forth a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia's secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat, fabricating a slew of votes that he
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Marathon Announces Property Purchase Program | BlackPressUSA
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Find me that votes pal – Trump pressures Georgia official to 'recalculate' election results in leaked call
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Sen. Durbin On Senate Floor: ‘This Sacred Place Was Desecrated’ During Capitol Storming - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) invoked the hallowed space of the U.S. Capitol – and denounced President Donald Trump – in the wake of the storming of the Capitol earlier in the day.
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White Privilege on Full Display as Trump’s Thugs Take Over US Capitol | Atlanta Daily World
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In Aftermath Of Lacking Police Response To Trump Rioters, Many Remember 2013 Capitol Shooting Of Miriam Carey - Blavity
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Rosa Parks
Born: 2/4/1913 Tuskegee, AlabamaDied: 10/24/2005 Detroit, MichiganRosa Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement.On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey
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Ad from anti-Trump PAC calls Ted Cruz part of 'new Jim Crow caucus' for challenging Electoral College - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
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Dems Ask FBI To Investigate Trump Phone Call to Georgia Sec. of State
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Lawmakers Call To Impeach Trump, Accuse Him Of Inciting Capitol Riot
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Kelly Loeffler runs Facebook ad darkening Rev. Warnock's skin color - TheGrio
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Rep. Marilyn Strickland Calls Out The Erasure Of Black Capitol Workers Impacted By Riot
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Capitol Officer Killed By Supposed Pro-Police Terrorists Was ‘Reportedly Bludgeoned With A Fire Extinguisher’
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Biden Heads to Georgia with Message: 'Send Me These Two Men' - Black News Channel
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The importance of the Senate runoff elections in Georgia cannot be overstated. It is why President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are headed to the Peach State to campaign for the Democratic
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Trump Finally Signs COVID Relief Bill Providing $600 Direct Payments to Families
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Congress to receive 1st doses of coronavirus vaccine - TheGrio
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White Privilege on Full Display as Trump’s Thugs Take Over US Capitol. | Chicago Defender
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(1867) Thaddeus Stevens, “Reconstruction”
In 1867 Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner led the campaign for full voting rights for African Americans across the nation.  In the speech below which Stevens gave in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 3, 1867 supporting the Reconstruction
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Stokes, Louis (1925-2015)
Ohio’s first African American Congressman, Louis Stokes was born to Charles and Louis Stokes on February 23, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended its public schools before joining the United States Army in 1943. Stokes served in the army for three years and then attended Western Reserve
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Trump supporters appear to mock Floyd killing in viral video
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Arthur W. Mitchell
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Jackson-Lee, Sheila (1950 - )
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