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PROTEST VIDEO: Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19
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Trump deems churches 'essential', calls for them to reopen
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — President Donald Trump says he deems churches and other houses of worship “essential” and called on governors across the country to allow them to reopen this weekend despite the threat of spreading the novel
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Meet the black Republican woman trying to unseat civil rights icon John Lewis
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Namibia: Outright Calls for Scrapping of Sodomy Law
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Meet the black Republican woman trying to unseat civil rights icon John Lewis
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Black conservatism
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Cummings, Elijah E. (1951- 2019)
U.S. Congressman Elijah E. Cummings was born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 18, 1951. He received a B.A. degree from Howard University (Washington, D.C.) in 1973 and a J.D. degree from the University of Maryland (College Park) in 1976. Cummings, one of seven children of working-class parents who
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Texas Restricts Medication Abortion, Escalating War On Reproductive Rights
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A Liberal Dose of Sports.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Am I the only one who has noticed that the four major sports leagues in the U.S. have all made a conscious decision to promote radical liberal causes at the expense of simply being a sports
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Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19 – Voice and Viewpoint
Dozens of Christian conservative activists and clergy members defied Virginia’s stay-at-home order and gathered Saturday for a “Pray for VA, Pray for USA
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Ford, Harold Jr. (1970- )
Harold Eugene Ford, Jr. was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 11, 1970. He currently serves as chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee.  During his tenure in congress Ford represented the state’s 9th
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Black Catholics: Words Not Enough as Church Decries Racism
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Meet the Clergy Who Won’t Stop In-Person Preaching During COVID-19 – Free Press of Jacksonville
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Some Say If Retail Stores Are Open, Churches Should Be Too. Here's Why It's Not So Simple.
Last week, President Donald Trump called on governors to reopen houses of worship, calling it an “injustice” that that “liquor stores and abortion clinics” were open when churches were
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GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website
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Rwanda: Kagame Pardons Abortion Convicts But Accomplices Will Serve Full Sentences
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Justice Clarence Thomas says Roe decision doesn't have 'shred' of constitutional support | The Atlanta Voice
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The Dilemma for the Black Pastor and Racial Reconciliation In The Future.
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King, Alveda (1951- )
Alveda King, a prominent conservative leader, evangelist, and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia, as the first of five children of Alfred Daniel King and Naomi Barber King on January 22, 1951. Her father worked heavily in the civil rights movement and was a pastor
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Africa : Zimbabwe, Sudan, South Sudan
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Keyes, Alan L. (1950- )
A controversial and conservative Republican, Alan Lee Keyes has perhaps one of the most extensive resumes to date in public and political
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President Trump deems churches ‘essential’, calls for churches to reopen – Black pastors are hesitant | The Mississippi Link
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