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AP/ BNC Contributor ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Monday that she had tested positive for COVID-19. COVID-19 has literally hit home. I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive, Bottoms, a potential Democratic vice presidential candidate, tweeted. COVID-19 has
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The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes has doubled over the past decade to almost 80 million, according to the UN refugee
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MLB unveils 60-game season set to begin July 23 | The Atlanta Voice
Major League Baseball released its 2020 season schedule on Monday. Every team will play a 60-game schedule entirely against teams in their own geographic region to limit travel. The season will open on July 23 with a pair of games. The defending World Series champion Washington Nationals will host
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Schott-Free: University Of Cincinnati Trustees Vote To Take Name Off Ballpark
On Tuesday, the University of Cincinnati board of trustees voted unanimously to take down the name of Marge Schott from the school's baseball stadium, effective
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Legendary Singer Deniece Williams Join Other Big Stars at NNPA Virtual Conference | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Williams, whose transformed RB, pop, and gospel music over her extraordinary five-decade career, joins Stephanie Mills, Anthony Hamilton, Carlos Santana, and Salt-N-Pepa in a star-studded lineup of musical talent appearing at the first virtual conference in the 193-year history of
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The $400-million Manchester Municipal Corporation fraud trial, which came to an end on Friday, May 15, 2020 after 11 months, resulted in the conviction of main accused 35-year-old Sanja Elliott, the corporation's former deputy superintendent of road and works; his wife, Tashagaye Elliott
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Deion Sanders
A world-renowned sports athlete, professional and currently a TV show host, Deion Sanders was never meant to be mediocre at anything he set his eyes on. One of very few athletes to have ever professionally played football as well as baseball at the national level, Sanders’ marvelous athletic
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Indiana Governor Defends Officer Response to Assault Report - Black News Channel
By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America/ BNC Contributor INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb defended the states Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday amid criticism that the agencys conservation officers did not adequately respond to the reported assault of a Black man
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Hall of Fame Baseball Great Claudell Washington, 65
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Jackie Robinson
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By GEOFF MULVIHILL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press/ BNC Contributor The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again as the virus resumes its rapid spread and the number of hospitalized patients
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Wizards Beal, Nets Dinwiddie to miss rest of NBA season - Black News Channel
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NY count: 6,300 virus patients were sent to nursing homes - Black News Channel
By MARINA VILLENEUVE and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes during the height of the pandemic under a controversial, now-scrapped policy, state officials said Monday, but they argued it
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Miami-Dade County imposing restrictions after cases spike - Black News Channel
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Jack Johnson
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BNC Chairman/CEO J.C. Watts: Let’s Not Put Our Health at Risk - Black News Channel
By J.C. Watts, chairman/acting CEO of BNC Washington, D.C., city attorney George Valentine was Black, brilliant, and fit. But after contracting COVID-19, he became so weak, he had trouble moving and even speaking. When it got to the point where he could barely breathe, George called an ambulance
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$1.2 million bail for driver that hit 2 Seattle protesters - Black News Channel
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Leroy "Satchel" Paige, major league baseballplayer, named all-time
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FBI Investigates Reported Assault on Black Man as Hate Crime - Black News Channel
By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America/BNC Contributor INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The FBI is investigating as a hate crime the assault of a Black man by a group of white men at a southern Indiana lake, the victims attorney said Tuesday. Vauhxx Booker, a local civil rights activist and member
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