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The Sword of The Black Press
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Sudan: Museveni's Powerful Sudan Fixer Dies After Contracting Coronavirus
Ms Gadaheldam has been an almost permanent fixture on the sides of President Museveni in regional meetings to deal with relations with Sudan under former President Omar-al-Bashir and current military leader Gen Abdel Fatah
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Source: allAfrica.com
White Jews should understand why Black Americans need reparations now
As a white person, as a Jewish person and as the descendant of Holocaust survivors who have benefited from the German reparations program, I feel morally obligated to pay reparations to Black grassroots organizations and Black individuals until reparations are formalized by the
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Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency - The Global Jewish News Source
When the Protesting Ends – Do You Just Go Home? – Free Press of Jacksonville
NNPA NEWSWIRE By Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire Contributor — For the last 400 years in America, Black people have been considered to be a second-class citizen because of the color of their
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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly
WANTED: Residents to join conversations about racial equity in proposed bond 2020
Dallas ISD’s Racial Equity Office (REO) is calling on communities in the city’s southern sector to help define what racial equity will look like in Dallas ISD’s proposed Bond 2020 package of school and facility
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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.
OBBO: Why an Ethiopia-Egypt war over River Nile dam might be
The quarrel is over the rate at which Ethiopia fills the reservoir behind the dam and its effect on water supplies downstream in Sudan and Egypt—for who the Nile is the primary water
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Source: The East African
Black Workers More Likely to Face Retaliation for Raising Coronavirus Concerns
Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly
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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA
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‘Black Wall Street’: Trump’s plan for rally in Tulsa calls attention to 1921 race massacre
In 1921, a white mob attacked a predominantly Black area in Tulsa, killing hundreds of people and destroying the country’s wealthiest African American
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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always
Southern University [Shreveport] (1964 -- )
Southern University is a historically black university with a main campus located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Originally founded in 1880 in New Orleans as Southern University in New Orleans, it began its mission of providing post-secondary education for African Americans with 12 students and
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Source: Black Past
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1972
The Black Crisis in the Midst of the Coronavirus Crisis
Dr. Maulana Karenga, chair of the Department of Africana Studies at CSU Long Beach, wants the Black community to make sure that physical distancing during the pandemic does not interfere with relationships or establishing
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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward
Bank of Sierra Leone stimulus package and its impact on the economy
Devastating as this pandemic is, there is an opportunity for the government of Sierra Leone to fundamentally change the direction of the local economy by offering an economic response that is not only proportionate to the scale of the disruption, but one that is bold and big enough to define a new
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
The need for a national Black coronavirus task force –
Need for task force There are spotty scientific and educational research and statistics concerning racial demographics across the country and limited conversations with discussions about the state of Black America during this age of the coronavirus
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Source: Daytona Times
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Uganda: Total-Tullow Oil Sales Deal Awaits Cabinet Approval
Last month's French oil giant Total E&P acquisition of Anglo-Irish Tullow assets awaits Cabinet approval before it can be endorsed by government, the Ministry of Energy has
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How The Crisis Is Making Racial Inequality Worse
In good times and bad, the black unemployment rate is typically double the white unemployment rate, says economist Valerie Wilson, who directs the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think
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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Marcus Garvey
As he wrote in The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, “Education is the medium by which a people are prepared for the creation of their own particular civilization, and the advancement and glory of their own
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Source: Jamaicans.com
Impact of Covid-19 on African economies; a look at Nigeria [Morning Call]
A UN report released on May 12 projects the global economy to contract by 3.2% this
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Contact tracing: What it is, why it’s done, and is it private?
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Boone, Ashley A., Jr. (1938-1994)
The son of a postal worker and stay-at-home mother, Ashley Augustus Boone Jr.  was born and raised in what he described as a “lower middle class” environment in Springfield, Massachusetts.  His parents, nonetheless, recognized the primacy of education and, like his brother and two
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Source: Black Past
Coronavirus Live Updates Archive from May 10 to May 17
“This bill contains significant new funding for higher education institutions that will help alleviate the crippling financial impact posed by the coronavirus,” the American Council on Education, which lobbies for colleges and universities, said in
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Source: Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Career Advice, Jobs
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Legend Beverly Johnson Encourages America Not To Be Fooled By Brands Hiring Black Models In Fashion
Beverly Johnson wants more diversity in the fashion
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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET
African-American neighborhood
African-American neighborhoods or black neighborhoods are types of ethnic enclaves found in many cities in the United States. Generally, an African American neighborhood is one where the majority of the people who live there are African American. Some of the earliest African-American neighborhoods
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Source: ThoughtCo
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New Black-Owned Financial Literacy Board Game That Sold Out in Days is Now Available to Pre-Order
Nationwide — Sense 2 Cents, a financial literacy company for children and young adults, has produced an immersive financial literacy board game to develop children’s financial management and decision-making skills while engaging in leisurely
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Africa: Walter Rodney and 2020 Africa
With his magnus opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, published in 1972, Rodney told the development story of Africa in a way that bears resonance to the African condition
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Source: allAfrica.com
Gary Declaration, National Black Political Convention, 1972
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Southern University Law Center [New Orleans] (1947-- )
Southern University is a historically black university with a main campus located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Originally founded in 1880 in New Orleans as Southern University in New Orleans, it began its mission of providing post-secondary education for African Americans with 12 students and
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Source: Black Past
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1972
A New Era Begins: The Significance of the Barack Obama Victory, 2008
In the article below Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large provides his perspective on the importance of the Obama victory for the Presidency on Nov. 4, 2008 and the way it forever changed the United
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Source: Black Past
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Howard Thurman
Howard Thurman , in full Howard Washington Thurman (born Nov. 18, 1899, Daytona Beach, Fla., U.S.—died April 10, 1981, San Francisco, Calif.), American Baptist preacher and theologian, the first African American dean of chapel at a traditionally white American university, and a founder of the
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Mauritius: Reinventing the Mauritian Economic Model
Although Mauritius has reinvented itself before, the consequences this time challenge its economic philosophy and will require vision, creativity and
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Sunken Place Soldier Candace Owens Forgets Her Hair Is 4C, Calls Black People “Chimpanzees” For Riots
According to published reports, on Thursday (May 28) Candace Owens took to YouTube to live stream and discuss the current events going on across the country involving Black America’s reaction to there continued police brutality that has plagued the country for
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Source: The Urban Daily
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Smith, Samuel J. (1922-1995)
Samuel J. Smith, a Washington State Legislator and Seattle City Councilmember was born on July 21, 1922, in Gibsland, Louisiana.  Listening to speeches by Franklin Roosevelt broadcast on radio in the early 1930s persuaded young Smith that he wanted a future in
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