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Bill Cosby lawyers cry foul as civil sex assault trial looms
With jury selection less than a week away, attorneys scrambled to deal with shifting evidence Tuesday in Bill Cosby’s civil The post Bill Cosby lawyers cry foul as civil sex assault trial looms appeared first on TheGrio.
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'It's a sin': Parliament slams Dept of Water and Sanitation for failing to spend R2bn of its budget | News24
While several communities are not receiving quality water and sanitation services, the Department of Water and Sanitation failed to spend more than R2 billion in the 2021-2022 financial year.
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Source: https://www.news24.com
Agriculture Announces Division Closures in Preparation for 50th Agri-Fest
Divisions to be closed include the abattoir and the nursery; the Market has been temporarily re-located and the veterinary division has limited availability.
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Agriculture Announces Division Closures in Preparation for 50th Agri-Fest
Divisions to be closed include the abattoir and the nursery; the Market has been temporarily re-located and the veterinary division has limited availability.
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Source: St. John Source | independent and trusted since 1999
Gangs strangle Haiti’s capital as deaths, kidnappings soar
It was about 6 a.m. when Venique Moïse flung open the door of her house and saw dozens of people The post Gangs strangle Haiti’s capital as deaths, kidnappings soar appeared first on TheGrio.
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Dr Beyers Naudé mayor and chief whip removed via motion of no confidence | News24
The DA mayor of the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality, Ewald Loock, and the party's chief whip in the council, Ricardo Smith, have been removed from their positions via a motion of no confidence.
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Free State mayor apologises after calling residents 'k-word' | News24
The mayor of Moqhaka in the Free State, Motloheloa Mokatsane, has apologised after being caught on camera calling residents the k-word.
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Hard hit by COVID-19, Black Americans are recovering slowly
… risk of COVID-19. Where African Americans live also makes a difference … Back: Assessing Economic Recovery Among Black Americans During COVID-19. “So, when … of death,” she says. Historically, Black Americans have suffered at significantly higher …
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Ida Times-Green Running for State Assembly District 12 | BlackPressUSA
By Godfrey Lee Ida Times-Green, a resident of Marin City, is running for California State Assembly District 12 of California in the upcoming June 7 election. Times-Green promises to fight for affordable housing, single-payer healthcare, living wages and union workers, resilience to
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Two years after Floyd’s murder: local voices call for more than ‘dribs and drabs’
'I believe that the City needs to establish a truth and reconciliation commission that is comprised primarily of Black residents.' Source
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Founder of FUBU J. Alexander Martin Talks New FOR US BY US Network and Continued Growth of Fashion Empire
FUBU founder J. Alexander Martin appeared on Hip Hop & Enterprise to discuss his recently launched streaming platform, FOR US BY US NETWORK.
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KZN floods: Why residents of Durban's North Coast vow to 'keep pressure' on politicians | News24
Last week, well over 23 days after the floods first occurred, residents in Tongaat took to the streets in their thousands for a peaceful protest.
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As San Francisco’s Newest D.A. Faces Recall Threat, Black Activists Speak Out | BlackPressUSA
By Lee Hubbard San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is in trouble and his job is on the political ropes as he faces a recall election on June 7 to remove him from office. Elected in 2019, as a progressive reformer who would apply justice to the office and fight crime by bringing
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Buffalo Shooting Underscores The Human Cost Of Hatred | Chicago Defender
By Hamil R. Harris The fatal mass shooting inside a Buffalo, New York, grocery store on May 14 has shaken the faith of national political leaders by echoing a tragic and familiar refrain across the country — another mass shooting that appears motivated by race and hate. Payton Gendron, 18, traveled
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Expert: Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe
LONDON (AP) — A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak ofmonkeypoxin developed countries as “a The post Expert: Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe appeared first on TheGrio.
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Chicago Comes to the Rescue of Buffalo Residents | Chicago Defender
Pastor John Harrell, CEO of Black Men United along with Congressman Danny K. Davis, Black Men United, World Vision Director Reed Slattery, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas, Alderwoman Emma Mitts, and other local leaders will lead a motorcade of volunteers as they escort three 53-foot-long
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15 Works to Know by Photographer Gordon Parks, Who Chronicled African American Life
Artist Gordon Parks is noted for capturing subjects from the sports, politics, and entertainment worlds, as well as from everyday life.
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Edelman: School Winds Down, But Hunger Doesn’t
By Marian Wright Edelman As the school year winds down, once again millions of children and families are facing the reality that hunger doesn’t take a summer vacation. This has been especially true over the last two years. Many of the lines at food pantries that started forming at the beginning of
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Day Zero: Steenhuisen criticises Nelson Mandela Bay's handling of water crisis | News24
John Steenhuisen advised the metro to take lessons from the DA-led City of Cape Town, which successfully averted Day Zero in 2018.
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The Kids Are Not Alright: Addressing The Mental Health Crisis Impacting Our Youth
This story is featured in the May/June issue of ESSENCE. Jamal Clay was the type of child who always wanted to help people. He was an intuitive soul, and his […] The post The Kids Are Not Alright: Addressing The Mental Health Crisis Impacting Our Youth appeared first on Essence.
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Federal Grant to Preserve Birmingham Civil Rights Landmarks
By Alabama NewsCenter Staff Federal funds are flowing to Alabama to help preserve important civil rights sites and create new exhibits and programming connected to Black history in the state. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell shared information about the new National Park Service grants, which will support 11
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Former Black Panther Sundiata Acoli Wins Parole Appeal After Nearly 50 Years In Prison
“Acoli must be released because the statutory standards for granting parole have been met, without regard to extraneous factors like sympathy or passion or public opinion," read the court's decision.
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The First Black Secret Service Agent On White House Detail Was An Alpha
Did you know that secret service agent Abraham Bolden is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha? Bolden pledged the Alpha Psi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. In addition to earning his B.A. in music composition cum laude from Lincoln University, Bolden was the first African-American detective with
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Legislature Corner: Children Deserve to Be Safe in Well-Equipped Schools
Senate President Donna Frett-Gregory says Bill No. 34-0079 could be a blueprint for modernizing and maintaining the territory’s schools and would address the decades of educational issues.
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Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas to host unprecedented property tax summit for representatives from more than a dozen countries May 24 - 25
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is hosting a Property Tax and Innovation Summit on May 24-25, 2022 in Chicago. Representatives from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay will be on hand for the
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Again with term limits, City Council tells voters - TSDMemphis.com
Memphis voters in August will get a second chance to extend the number of terms the mayor and City Council members can remain in office.  The council, on third and final reading Tuesday (May 24), approved an ordinance that, if approved by voters on Aug. 4, would extend the current limit of two
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Twitter Roasts Walmart For Releasing Juneteenth-Themed Ice Cream
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Rae Lewis-Thornton opens up about trauma in her memoir “Unprotected” | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Tammy Gibson, Contributing Writer Emmy Award-Winning AIDS Activist Rae Lewis-Thornton is celebrating 60 Years of Life/40 Years of Advocacy with a tea party, book signing, and discussion of her anticipated memoir “Unprotected.” In 1994, Lewis-Thornton received national acclaim for her cover story
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Moments in Black History Were in My House and in My Neighborhood
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Residents talk Third Precinct’s future
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