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Obama Makes Sweeping Call To Action On Voting Rights In John Lewis Eulogy

“I’ve come here today because I, like so many Americans, owe a great debt to John Lewis and his forceful vision of freedom," the former president said.

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Caricom must work to strengthen food and nutrition security – LaRocque

This statement was part of the remarks made yesterday by the Secretary-General of CARICOM, Irwin LaRocque at a virtual meeting of CARICOM Ministers of Agriculture, Financial Institutions, Donor Organizations and Donor Countries Support for CARICOM Agri-Food and Food Security Response to the

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Authors pull study flagging hydroxychloroquine risks

The Lancet on Thursday retracted a study that raised safety fears over the use of a drug favored by President Donald Trump to treat Covid-19, after the paper's authors said they could no longer vouch for its underlying

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Source: The East African

Parks Chapel, Oakland, Turns 101 Years Old

In November 2019, the process of restoring the glory began as Bishop Clement W. Fugh, the presiding prelate of the 5th Episcopal District, in his infinite wisdom assigned the Rev. Dr. Rosalynn Brookins to serve as the newly-appointed senior

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Source: The Christian Recorder

Report: 3 more officers to be charged in Floyd’s death

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The three other police officers on the scene when a Minneapolis officer pressed his knee on George Floyd’s neck are being charged with aiding and abetting a murder, and the case against the main officer is being upgraded to second-degree murder, a newspaper reported

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Coronavirus deaths surge in Brazil, Mexico as regional leaders look to reopen

RIO DE JANEIRO/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The number of coronavirus deaths in Brazil blew past Italy’s toll yesterday, while Mexico reported a record number of new cases, as regional leaders in Latin America push to end quarantine measures and kick their economies back into

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Honors Senior Thesis Projects Virtually

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) is holding its 2020 senior exhibition totally online this year utilizing digital resources like Google

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Source: The Madison Times Weekly Newspaper

FAMU President Robinson Issues Statement On National Unrest

In the pursuit of liberty and justice for all, Florida A&M University once again offers leadership as was done during the Tallahassee Bus Boycott that we celebrated this

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Source: The Florida Star

NERIMA: The sky’s green? That’s a white lie not an opinion

With over half of Kenya’s population made up of youth, some of the most active internet sites are social media

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Source: The East African

Protests Shift to Memorializing Floyd Amid Push for Change | Afro

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and BRIAN MAHONEY, Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Cory Booker and Kamala Harris speak out against Rand Paul amendment | New York Carib News

Paul, who has been holding up popular bipartisan legislation to make lynching a federal crime, came to the Senate floor in Washington to add an amendment to the anti-lynching legislation and then pass

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Source: The New York Carib News

ULIMWENGU: Profiteers on the prowl as mass ‘blindness’ is loosed

The traffic jam is building behind the first commuter, until somebody from the long line behind the first character moves over to the car causing all the blockage, and discovers in horror that the man they have all been hooting at is blind as an owl, and is totally

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Source: The East African

Pandemic will shrink region’s GDP by at least 3 - 4%

With Latin America and the Caribbean facing the COVID-19 pandemic “from a weaker position than the rest of the world” there is, as yet, no telling what the pandemic’s economic impact on the region is likely to be at this stage, according to a recent assessment undertaken by the Economic Commission

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

The Annual Bay Area Book Festival is Back On

The annual Bay Area Book Festival, originally scheduled for May 2-3, has been resurrected in virtual form with Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND after organizers were forced to cancel the in-person event to prevent further spread of

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Uber signals recovery in rides as lockdown restrictions ease

Uber Technologies said on Wednesday trip requests were gradually picking up, but still remained significantly below prior year levels, as several countries start to lift coronavirus-led

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Source: TechCentral

Lowcountry Food Bank Partners with Summer Food Service Program to Offer Summer Meals for Children

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Driver charged with murdering Atlantic Gardens businesswoman

A 35-year-old driver was today remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of businesswoman Sattie Beekharry, who was killed in her Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara home earlier this

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

deGregory: White supremacy in Wakanda | The Atlanta Voice

Black people in America, who have for the last four centuries not known what it was like to live without the crushing weight of racism’s constant burden, are using their bodies once again to mount a visible protest that strikes at the heart of white America’s most visceral fear: the upending of

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Culture Minister: No plans to cancel Carnival 2021 | New York Carib News

Culture Minister: No plans to cancel Carnival 2021

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Source: The New York Carib News

‘Live Aid’ for gaming: How gamers came together to fight coronavirus

Gamers are contributing with charity streams, organized virtual events and competitions to rake in money for COVID-19 relief and support for those who are feeling isolated by global quarantine

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Source: South Florida Times

Anti-lockdown protest in Madagascar over alleged police brutality

A scuffle broke out between protesters and police in Madagascar Wednesday as citizens took to the street to denounce anti-lockdown measures to contain

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Western envoys: `Important for all stakeholders to uphold integrity of recount process and peacefully accept wishes of Guyanese'

Western envoys: `Important for all stakeholders to uphold integrity of recount process and peacefully accept wishes of

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Riots are the language of the unheard. What is it America is not hearing? – The Mississippi Link

And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over

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Source: The Mississippi Link

Abrams: 'I do what I can to support their message, but not to distract from their efforts' | The Atlanta Voice

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said she has not physically joined in the protests over the death of George Floyd, but is being supportive in other ways, believing that young people should lead and her participation would only “distract” from the

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Black Lives Matter, ACLU Sue Trump for Tear Gassing Protesters –

The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of Black Lives Matter, filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump and Attorney General William

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Coronavirus May Kill Tech Startups | Afro

Unicorns are seeing their valuations sliced, some by 40 percent, as tracked by European company

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

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Source: The Urban Daily

Report from May 2020 General Board Meeting

On May 29, the General Board of the African Methodist Episcopal Church met via Zoom Conference Call under the leadership of Bishop Gregory G. M. Ingram (president of the General Board) and Bishop Harry

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Source: The Christian Recorder

UAB Doctor Raises Money to Create Face Shields in Zambia

Realizing that what was happening in the United States would eventually spread to Africa, he began thinking of ways to help frontline health care workers from his home in

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Gambia postpones protest against police violence in the US

Gambian police “temporarily” banned a demonstration planned on Monday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Banjul to protest police violence in the United States, after the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and a Gambian national near Atlanta, the organizer of the rally said

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Trump nominee to be Air Force chief of staff says he navigates 'two worlds' as an African American man

Gen. Charles Brown, commander of Pacific Air Forces and President Trump's nominee to be the next Air Force chief of staff, said in a video released Friday that he navigates "two worlds" as an African American and that he's "thinking about how I can make

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