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Celebrating Malcolm X, a warrior and master teacher –
No one whom I have ever met more clearly understood the realness of that observation than Brother Malcolm X, who himself once noted “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it
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Black Caucus rallies behind Meeks for Foreign Affairs gavel | New York Carib News
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are already rallying behind Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) as a possible replacement for Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the Foreign Affairs chairman who appears to have lost his primary race this
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Trump blames China for 'mass worldwide killing'
US President Donald Trump again lashed out at China Wednesday over the coronavirus pandemic, blaming Beijing for "mass worldwide
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Check It Out: Banning the banned chokehold
Now, I’m going to use the racial profiling ban as a starting point to sympathize with President Trump’s recent executive order banning chokeholds except if the officer’s life is at
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President Lincoln received first group of Blacks
President Lincoln received first group of Blacks to confer with a U.S. president on a matter of public policy. He urged Blacks to emigrate to Africa or Central America and was bitterly criticized by Northern Blacks.
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Newsom: Help us improve COVID-19 models
Amid a continued surge in hospitalizations and ICU admissions, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday made public the coronavirus models California is using to inform its public health orders, calling on “citizen scientists,” “experts in artificial intelligence,” “Nobel laureates” and everyday people to
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Trump threatens to 'shut' social media
US President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to shutter social media platforms after Twitter for the first time acted against his false tweets, prompting the enraged Republican to double down on unsubstantiated claims and conspiracy
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Hamilton, Bermuda (1790- )
Hamilton is the capital of the British overseas island territory of Bermuda in the Western Atlantic Ocean. The city had a population of 3,641 people in 2014. Hamilton is located on the northern shore of a deep water harbour on the main island of Bermuda. Most of the people who work in Hamilton do
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Cry, the beloved Africa – a tale of two experiences
Cry, the beloved Africa – a tale of two experiences
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Remembering the 1964 Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner
For Blacks of a certain age, the May 25 knee-on-neck killing of George Floyd by a White police officer evokes that awful time in the summer of 1964 when young civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by a Klan
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Georgia Bill Would Stop Officials From Mailing Absentee Ballot Applications
ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans controlling a Georgia House committee approved legislation Wednesday that would prevent election officials from proactively sending mail ballot request forms to voters ahead of an
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World War II: Fighting in North Africa and Italy
In June 1940, as fighting was winding down in France, the pace of operations quickened in the Mediterranean. The area was vital for Britain, which needed to maintain access to the Suez Canal in order to remain in close contact with the rest of its empire. Following Italys declaration of war on
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Covid-19: WHO halts malaria drug trials
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has temporarily suspended trials of hydroxychloroquine from its global study into experimental Covid-19 treatments, saying that its experts need to review all available evidence to
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'Brown-skinned' Tapia endorses peaceful protests
A “brown-skin” Donald Tapia yesterday endorsed peaceful protests that are now taking place in his home country and recounted his own experience marching for equality with civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr in his early
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Robert Johnson says Black Lives Matter should form a political party: 'We need a black party'
Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), is urging Black Americans to form their own political party to specifically address black
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The Sword of The Black Press
Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly
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Obama rebukes leaders over Covid-19 response
Former US President Barack Obama on Saturday criticised the response to the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging America, in what was widely regarded as a rare public rebuke of his successor Donald
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Pelosi Trolls Trump Saying Rally Could Have Been A Zoom Meeting Based On Crowd Size
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Kenya: Amina Mohamed Among Favourites for WTO Top Job
Kenya's Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has become one of the top picks for the World Trade Organization's director general post, according to a UK
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How Black history is taught in schools faces new scrutiny
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Black Man Convicted Of Rape In 1976 Is Fighting For His Release
Today (June 24), Ronnie Long’s lawyer, Jaime Lau, interviewed with The Clay Cane Show on SiriusXM Urban View about the horrific trial of Ronnie Long by an all-white
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US sees 1,260 coronavirus deaths in a day
The United States recorded a further 1,260 deaths from Covid-19 on Friday, bringing its total to 95,921 since the global pandemic began, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins
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Jacksonville, Trump’s New Convention Site, Will Now Require Face Masks
MIAMI — Florida billed itself as a coronavirus oasis when it wooed the Republican National Convention: The pandemic seemed under control, and Republican state and city leaders welcomed a major televised event to show off the progress and cement votes for President Trump in the nation’s biggest
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We can’t breathe: Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has psyched up hard-pressed Zimbabweans to liberate themselves from the heavy Zanu PF yoke which he claims has shrunk the democratic space and deprived citizens of the much-needed
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OBBO: Why an Ethiopia-Egypt war over River Nile dam might be
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Paris Dennard Doesn’t Shy Away from Backing Trump
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Trump to finish drug regimen 'in day or 2'
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will finish his preventative hydroxychloroquine regimen "in a day or
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