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Hearing exposes TV viewers to blunt language, racial slurs | The Atlanta Voice
People who watched the first day of a House investigation into the Jan. 6 uprising at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday were exposed to the sort of blunt language, including profanity and racial slurs, rarely heard on daytime television. The hearing featured emotional testimony from four police officers
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Rapper Money Mitch Shot & Killed Himself After Getting Into Shootout With Police, Allegedly
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Mask mandates divide parents with school year on horizon
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — With U.S. health officials recommending that children mask up in school this fall, parents and policy... View Article The post Mask mandates divide parents with school year on horizon appeared first on TheGrio.
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Minneapolis Voters To Decide If City Will Reimagine Public Safety
A grassroots campaign to change the way the city administers public safety won a victory last week, successfully adding a question to the ballot for upcoming municipal elections regarding whether to replace the existing police department with a Department of Public Safety.
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Elgeyo Marakwet: Where 90kg bag of potatoes costs the same as two plates of chips
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The Pursuit of Mental Healthiness • EBONY
Happiness is not enough. There. I said it. Ask most folks what they desire most, and you’ll likely hear something along the lines of, “I just want to be happy.” It’s understandable. We’re swiftly rounding out year two of the COVID-19 pandemic, a virus that has radically changed the level of danger
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Civil rights legend Bob Moses dies at 86
One of the nation's foremost civil rights pioneers Bob Moses has died. He was 86 years old. Source
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Simone Biles out of vault and bars, may still do floor exercise and beam
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State of Black Mental Health Conference, July 28
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Mental Health Care Causes Simone Biles To Withdraw From The Olympics
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The Power of Urgency – Free Press of Jacksonville
July 26, 2021 -  Creating a sense of urgency is critical to fundraising. Sometimes – as in disaster relief – the sense of urgency is “built in” to the cause. Other times you have to [...]
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Higgins to seek 2nd sheriff term in Pulaski County
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By Royce WestTexas Senate For members of Texas Legislature and those who work in its orbit, the days since the 87th Regular Session ended on Memorial Day have been anything but a summer break or a return to our lives as part-time lawmakers. During this period, myself along with Democrat
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IN MEMORIAM: Civil Rights legend Bob Moses dies at 86 - WS Chronicle
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State of Black America 2021: A path forward as the nation emerges from ‘three pandemics’ | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Marc H. Morial (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“Building a fair, representative democracy is how we achieve long-term advances on issues from employment to education, from health care to housing, and from civil rights to criminal justice. It’s how we count every vote—and make every vote count. It is how we
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L.A. Music Executive Among Victims of Florida Condo Collapse - Los Angeles Sentinel
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5 signs it’s time to change careers | New Pittsburgh Courier
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Former Olympic Star Dominique Dawes Brings A New Spirit To Gymnastics [video] | Atlanta Daily World
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'The greatest honor': Osaka lights Olympic cauldron - Los Angeles Sentinel
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Simone Biles Cites Mental Health For Withdrawal From Gymnastics Team Event at Olympics
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California to require COVID vaccinations or weekly testing for state, health workers - L.A. Focus News
The state will require all public and private health workers, as well as the state's 246,000 employees, to get vaccinated against the coronavirus and prove they had the shots, officials announced Monday, July 26, or be subject to at least weekly testing for the virus. The order comes amid health
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Direct graft war to counties, Poghisio urges President Uhuru Kenyatta
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Robert Aaron Long pleads guilty to 4 Asian spa killings, sentenced to life | The Atlanta Voice
A man accused of killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses pleaded guilty Tuesday to four of the murders and was handed four sentences of life without parole. Robert Aaron Long, 22, still faces the death penalty in the four other deaths, which are
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