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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jack Abramoff, a once-powerful lobbyist who spent time in federal prison for fraud and corruption, has been charged in a San Francisco court in an investor fraud case involving cryptocurrency and lobbying disclosure, federal authorities announced
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NASA Names Headquarters After 'Hidden Figure' Mary W. Jackson
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at
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Chad Johnson Is Giving Those In Need A Stimulus Check
Donald Trump recently announced that another stimulus package is headed to our bank accounts for the many people who have lost their jobs or had to shut down small businesses because of the pandemic, but some people aren’t so sure the cavalry is on the
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Black teen accused of killing sex trafficker released from jail on $400k bond
Chrystul Kizer, a Wisconsin teenager accused of killing her alleged sex trafficker, was released from jail on Monday after an unnamed organization paid for her $400, 000
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THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Lacey needs to re-examine questionable shootings
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How an African-American led a campaign to have 176-year-old slave auction block removed
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NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace Will not Back Down from Racism
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Dlamini-Zuma is 'simply doing her job', says Mabuza
Deputy President David Mabuza has defended under fire Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, saying that, amid a slew of criticism, she is simply doing her
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Justice For Elijah McClain: How The Police ‘Murder’ Of Black Colorado Man Is Being Revisited
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KABAARA: It is time to learn about living with coronavirus
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Impatience grows for cops’ arrests in Breonna Taylor’s death
But three months after plainclothes detectives serving a warrant busted into her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment and shot the 26-year-old Black woman to death, only one of the three officers who opened fire has lost his
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Morehouse School of Medicine chosen to spearhead $40M COVID-19 initiative
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of Minority Health selected Morehouse School of Medicine as the recipient of a new $40 million initiative to fight COVID-19 in racial and ethnic minority, rural and socially vulnerable
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Downtown Kingston SOE extended for 41 days
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Cosatu slams Mboweni's budget while opposition parties are left uninspired
While opposition parties were generally uninspired by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's supplementary budget he delivered on Wednesday, his most strident criticism came from within the tripartite alliance as Cosatu expressed its disillusionment with the
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Noose In Bubba Wallace’s Stall Coincidental, Says FBI
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Malawi votes in closely-watched historic presidential re-run
Malawian voters defied the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday to return to the polls for the second time in just over a year after President Peter Mutharika's re-election was annulled in a dramatic court
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OP ED: America Should Embrace Prison Returnees to Our Communities | Dallas Weekly
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