Governor Takes Action on 16 Bills, Sets in Motion Promised Infrastructure Projects

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Governor Takes Action on 16 Bills, Sets in Motion Promised Infrastructure Projects

Gov. Bryan has signed 14 measures, including a number of infrastructure projects that he vowed during his “State of the Territory” speech to get underway this year. He has vetoed two others.

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6 Ways to Beat Stress and Get Better Sleep

Sleep is important for your growth, for your vision, for your sex life — for everything you’re trying to do in life, sleep plays an important role of resetting your body and getting your body and mind ready for the days

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(1976) Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, “Who, Then, Will Speak for the Common Good?”

In 1972 Barbara Charline Jordan became the first black member of Congress elected from Texas. Two years later this freshman Representative became a national figure because of her prominent role as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment hearings of President Richard

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Keep off Jubilee, Duale tells Atwoli

Leader of Majority in the National Assembly Aden Duale has told Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) Secretary-General Francis Atwoli to keep off Jubilee Party affairs after the trade unionist called for his

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The Impact of the HEROES Act on Black Communities | Afro

Black Businesses & Access to Capital: Data also suggest Black businesses were less likely to receive forgivable loans in the first round of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), and the HEROES Act attempts to address some of these issues by directing additional resources to community

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Constitution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1918

The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities’ League is a social, friendly, humanitarian, charitable, educational, institutional, constructive and expansive society, and is founded by persons desiring to the utmost to work for the general uplift of the Negro peoples of the

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Police committee welcomes the enactment of IPID amendment bill

This Act removes the power to dismiss the IPID head from the Minister of Police, and places it in the hands of the Portfolio Committee on

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Congress Moves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act Measure Forward

(NNPA) – The House Judiciary Committee has introduced the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act, the first-ever bold, comprehensive approach to hold police accountable, end racial profiling, change the law enforcement culture, empower communities, and build trust between law enforcement and minority

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Community Mobilizes to Halt State Bill Requiring Oakland to Close Public Schools and Sell Public Property

Local residents have joined with Assemblymember Rob Bonta to oppose a state bill that would have required the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) to permanently close schools and sell or lease public school properties in the midst of the pandemic

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Man Gets a Hospital Bill for $1,000,000.00 for COVID Treatment | - Where Wellness & Culture Connect

He’s breathing better and his heart is beating fine, but he came home to a bill that would almost make anybody’s heart

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Huddersfield owner says 50 or 60 clubs could go bust in next year

Huddersfield owner says 50 or 60 clubs could go bust in next year

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Dems push $3T coronavirus relief bill toward House OK

The bill would flush almost $1 trillion to state and local governments and provide more money for virus testing and to pay front-line emergency

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Charged with crime of Karen-ing 'Amy Cooper Inspired' law backed by Gov. Cuomo

Although there have been many incidents of white people calling 911 on Black people who are merely trying to live, the catalyst for proposing such legislation came after Amy Cooper; a white woman called the police on Chris Cooper, a Black

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The 4th District Councilmember, the Community and the Police – Voice and Viewpoint

Last week San Diego Fourth District City Council member Monica Montgomery cast a vote that stands out as wrong to both her District and the moral attitude of this

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As MLK asked in 1967, Where Do We Go from Here: Community or Chaos? | The Crusader Newspaper Group

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Muhammad Ali Jr. Says His Dad Would Have Hated The Black Lives Matter Protests

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Larenz Tate talks ‘Love Jones’ sequel and discusses new show ‘Rush’

Larenz Tate has joined the growing list of Hollywood actors moving from the big screen to the small

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Walls, Josiah Thomas (1832–1905)

First elected to the Congress in 1870, Josiah T. Walls became Florida’s first elected African American Congressman. Walls was born a slave in Winchester, Virginia on December 30, 1842. He was conscripted by the Confederate Army and captured in Yorktown by Union forces in 1862. Walls then enlisted

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Youth ministry rescues Marabha

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Nigeria: Oyo Assembly Passes 90 Bills, Motions in One Year

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Trump: I'll veto defense bill to keep Confederate base names | The Atlanta Voice

President Donald Trump is vowing to veto a massive defense bill to keep military bases such as Fort Bragg named after Confederate officers, swimming against sentiment in his own party and imperiling a 3% pay raise for the

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Securing the Garland VA Medical Center, and keeping our promise to veterans

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How the Compromise of 1850 Helped Delay the Civil War

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Governor Issues Proclamation on VI African Heritage Week

The third week of May is Virgin Islands African Heritage Week, and May 22 is African Liberation Day.

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Kenya wins UN Security Council seat

Kenya on Thursday evening won the Africa seat at the UN Security Council after garnering 129 votes against Djibouti's 62 votes in the second round of

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Botswana: Mining Sector Operates Reasonably Well - Masire

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(1857) Abraham Lincoln, “The Dred Scott Decision and Slavery,"

? The Dred Scott Decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857 was supposed to end the decades-long debate about slavery in the United States. It did just the opposite, inflaming passions particularly in the North. In the follow speech, Abraham Lincoln, then a private citizen, p

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Guyana’s Infant Oil & Gas Sector: Doomsday options - tariffs on oil, NOPEC Bill and invoking the nuclear option after a US/Saudi oil war!

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Five Acts to Follow: Legislation to Cut Rents and Other Bills You Should Know About

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Neera Tanden's Nomination Sets Off Warning Bells For Progressives

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