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A survey of black business owners shows mixed feelings on defunding the police, a campaign championed by the Black Lives Matter movement that would reduce police budgets and reallocate those funds to improve other areas like education, public health, housing, and youth services, reports The
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Africa: UN Human Rights - Debate On Racism, Police Brutality Slated
The United Nations Human Rights Council has announced the holding of an "urgent" debate on systemic racism and police brutality on Wednesday, June
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Black immigrant domestic workers are triply impacted by the coronavirus crisis: the illness itself, the related economic fallout and systemic racism, a new survey
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Somalia: Govt, Somaliland Leaders Resume Talks in Djibouti
The leaders of the federal government of Somalia and the self-declared republic of Somaliland held a landmark meeting in the neighboring Djibouti on
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(Reuters) – World 100 metres champion Christian Coleman, who narrowly escaped a ban last year for missing three doping tests, was provisionally suspended yesterday and could miss next year’s Tokyo Olympics after again breaching whereabouts
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Congress Sends Juneteenth Legislation to Trump | Dallas Weekly
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Somalia: U.S. Not 'Adequately' Investigating Airstrikes That Killed Civilians - Rights Group Says
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday the U.S. has "not adequately investigated" two U.S. airstrikes in Somalia this year that killed seven
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Policing in Africa: ways the force can be reformed
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Amazon Studios to release voting rights film featuring Stacey Abrams
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Reverse Freedom Rides: When segregationists tricked blacks from the South into moving north
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Italian Lawmaker Is Convinced He’s ‘Darker’ Than Black Caucus Members Amid Ohio Racism Hearing
Amid an Ohio House and Senate hearing on whether racism should be declared a public health crisis, one Italian Republican tried to center himself over his Black
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Gabrielle Union On ‘America’s Got Talent’ Departure And The Need To Hold ‘Bad Apples Accountable’
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Nigeria: Updated - U.S. Sanctions Six Nigerians for Alleged $6 Million Internet Fraud
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Africa: Egypt Hopes for Russia's Nuclear Plant Construction
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Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s Mother, Says She Disagrees With ‘Defunding Police’
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Cyber Security Bill must protect all: ICT ex-minister
FORMER Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira (Nyanga South MP) yesterday claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the most abused person on social media while justifying the need to pass the Cyber Security and Data Protection
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