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'We Struggle Together, We Thrive Together'
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Zimbabwe gives civil servants 50% salary hike, adds coronavirus allowance in US dollars
The Zimbabwean administration of President Emerson Mnangagwa, which has been facing unrest amid rapidly rising inflation, has hiked civil servants' salaries in local currency by 50% and also awarded them a US$75 Covid-19 allowance starting this
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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn will file bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
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A controversial Confederate monument goes down in Atlanta suburb
A DeKalb County judge last week ordered the relocation of the 30-foot obelisk at Decatur Square after the city argued it’d become a threat to public safety during recent protests
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Bevel CEO Tristan Walker on why #BlackDadsMatter now and always
Then there’s Bevel, which gained notoriety for their men’s shave and grooming products catered to the Black man, created by a Black
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Woman gets shot on video near Wendy's scene of Rayshard Brooks killing
A woman was shot in Atlanta outside of the Wendy's restaurant where Rayshard Brooks was killed by
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The police are the real outside agitators
While the mainstream press has sought to distract from the protests by claiming it’s being orchestrated by outside agitators, they fail to reveal that much of the mayhem that came with the overwhelmingly peaceful protests was created by the police operating as undercover
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The ‘Mis-education of the Negro’ remains in full effect today
We have been overwhelmed with support from the community in response to my last editorial in regard to the backlash received on the decision to remove two racist statues in Houston public areas, and place one of them — The Spirit of The Confederacy – in the Houston Museum of African American
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It is time for us to listen and repent
Fifty-seven years ago, one of my spiritual mentors, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, preached at the National Conference on Religion and Race, held at Chicago’s Edgewater Beach Hotel: “It is time for the White man to
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Protests yield a like-father-like-sons story
Only days ago, McKinney’s 19-year-old son, Ayodele McKinney, felt “the power of marching on the street” to protest the May 25 killing of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of a Minnesota police offer, who now faces a string of charges and has been fired from the
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Across The U.S., A Juneteenth 'Tinted With Sorrow' And Buoyed By Hope
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Tim Scott won’t acknowledge systemic racism and defunding police because he actually wants to stop systemic racism...by defunding the police
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Everything To Know About The Mass Poor People’s Assembly And Online March On Washington
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Black Student Loan Debt Should Be An Issue For All Of Us
Black people often end up in the demographic struggling to repay student loan debt for a variety of socio-economic reasons caused by systemic racism that wreaks havoc on generation after generation in a cruel cycle of poverty and resource
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When Martin Luther King Jr addressed UWI graduands...
Just under three years before Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on the evening of April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, the famed American civil rights leader visited the island and delivered a stirring address at The University of the West Indies Valedictory
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Is Your Farm A Mosquito Magnet? 5 Ways To Protect Your People And Animals
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Quaker Oats Retires Aunt Jemima Character Named After Racist Stereotype
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NY Liberty Juneteenth panel discusses equality, power of voting
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Common Reactions to COVID-19 in Children
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DACA Advocate On Next Steps After Supreme Court Ruling
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Let’s be wary of false prophets
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Protesters Fell Confederate Monument In D.C., Provoking Trump's Fury
Another Confederate monument has fallen — this time in a city where such memorials were understandably rare to begin with: the
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Black, African-American or Caribbean-American?
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America is fighting a racial as well as a viral pandemic
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