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Lakers Sign Marc Gasol - Los Angeles Sentinel
The Los Angeles Lakers have signed center Marc Gasol, it was announced today by Vice President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Rob Pelinka. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released. The post Lakers Sign Marc Gasol appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
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Netflix vs government about 30% local content quota: Here's the latest
The South African government’s plan to impose a strict 30% local content quota on streaming video services will likely backfire, says Netflix.
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ECLAC says positive growth in the C'bean in 2021 still insufficient to recover pre-pandemic levels of economic activity
SANTIAGO, Dec. 17,  CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) forecasts that while Latin America and the Caribbean will experience positive growth in 2021, it will still not be enough to recover from...
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Morehouse To Reopen With 1,200 Students and Hybrid Academic Program for Spring Semester
Morehouse College announced that it would reopen for a hybrid academic program starting next year for the spring 2021 semester.
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms ‘respectfully declined’ Biden cabinet spot - DefenderNetwork.com
Keisha Lance Bottoms turned down the chance to serve in President-elect Joe Biden‘s cabinet, one of the Atlanta mayor’s advisers said Saturday. The statement from Rashad Taylor confirmed reports from Friday that Bottoms didn’t accept an offer from Biden. However, it was unclear which cabinet
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August 27: Today in 1960, Racist Whites Butchered Blacks in Bloody Florida Protest Called 'Ax Handle Saturday'
Photo credits: The Florida Today/The Florida Historical Society Adults in Jacksonville, Florida's Laura Street Presbyterian Church asked the young president of the NAACP Youth Council 60 years ago if he and other youths still wanted to demonstrate inside two downtown department stores at all-white
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High School Principal Worked Overnight At Walmart To Help Students In Need | Atlanta Daily World
 As principal of North Charleston High School in South Carolina, an area where 20 percent of residents live in poverty, Henry Darby was used to seeing students in need. “There were some kids who, when I went to their homes, their mother wouldn’t let me in, but I could see that the home was dark
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Gov. Kemp sets spending of federal COVID-19 school aid | The Atlanta Voice
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced new spending plans for federal COVID-19 aid to schools Tuesday as the state’s newly confirmed infection numbers continue to fall but remain the highest per capita in the nation. Kemp, a Republican, said he would allocate more than $65 million of the remaining $105
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Louisiana Governor Grants Rapper McKinley 'Mac' Phipps Clemency
The former No Limit rapper, who has long maintained his innocence, could soon be free after serving 21 years of a 30-year sentence.
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Emmys 2021: The Diversity and Inclusion Shuffle | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Debbie Allen became the first Black woman to be presented with a Governor’s award, which is given for outstanding achievement in the arts and sciences. In her speech, Allen discussed the sexism she has faced down during her 40-year career as a dancer, actor, writer, producer and
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Mississippi Drops Confederate-Themed Flag
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as
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New Evidence Regarding Malcolm X’s Assassination Names NYPD, FBI As Co-Conspirators
A deathbed declaration by a former undercover NYPD officer accuses the NYPD and the FBI of acting as co-conspirators in the assassination of the civil rights icon.
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Snake breeding business picks up pace in Burundi | Africanews
In Burundi, a rare type of business is emerging. To many Burundians, snakes symbolize demons. Its slightest presence in homes leaders to its quick death and only grown men, and only the bold ones, dare to attack snakes.
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Swaziland: 'New Frame' Journalists Detained, Assaulted and Tortured by Security Forces in eSwatini
[New Frame] On Sunday 4 July 2021, two New Frame journalists, Magnificent Mndebele and Cebelihle Mbuyisa, who were on assignment in eSwatini were detained, assaulted and tortured by security forces.
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PRESS ROOM: Aldermen, State Reps and Cook County Board President to Help Distribute 4 Tons of Fresh Food, PPE to Chicago Latino Families
"I am so excited to serve alongside Zakat Foundation to serve our community,” said 25th Ward Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez. “The need is huge, and I am here to serve. Count me in for anything.” The food and medical PPE (personal protective equipment) relief for hurting families comes in the wake of
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Kenya: All Eyes On Appeals Court As Judges Set to Rule On BBI
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Court of Appeal will on Friday issue a ruling on the fate of the Constitution Amendment Bill 2020 popularly known as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI).
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Shots, Shots, Shots: Miami’s Club LIV Nightclub Offering Party Goers The COVID-19 Vaccine
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KSU neuroscientist awarded grant for PTSD in women research | The Atlanta Voice
Kennesaw State University’s Ebony Glover, an associate professor of neuroscience, received a $406,300 grant from the  National Institutes of Health (NIH) to gain a more comprehensive picture of sex-linked biomarkers for PTSD, which can lead to potential treatments that are more customized for this
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Detroit police officer drives SUV into crowd of protesters
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Prosecutors Charge 3 With Threatening Women in R. Kelly Case
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors announced charges Wednesday against three men accused of threatening and intimidating women who have accused R&B singer R. Kelly of abuse, including one man suspected of setting fire to a vehicle in Florida. A longtime friend of the indicted singer offered to pay
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Students, parents, teachers celebrate SEA results at a distance - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
There were shouts of joy and cries of relief from schools across northern Trinidad, but parents, teachers and students kept their distance as they celebrated the results of the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam on Thursday morning. At the Gandhi Memorial Vedic School, Aranguez, a "drive
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December 27 proclaimed Sam Sharpe Day
December 27 has been proclaimed as Sam Sharpe Day. Governor General, Sir Patrick Allen, made the proclamation on Tuesday. The first annual Sam Sharpe Day — in memory and celebration of the National Hero, the Right Excellent Samuel Sharpe, who...
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Kenya: KNEC Clears Path for Grade 4, STD 8 Exams
[Nation] After six months of fun, it is back to reality for Grade Four and Standard Eight learners as schools prepare for nationwide tests next week.
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In the Georgia runoff, just showing up for the debate was apparently the hardest part - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
Georgia's senate debates began with a Republican insulting voters with his absence. It ended with another Republican insult voters’ intelligence.
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Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda has announced that the government is implementing Level 3 response to CoVID-19 following the increase in the new confirmed cases, admissions, deaths since June 1. At a press conference in Lilongwe, Chiponda said the CoVID-19 Emergency Operation Centre as
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New party to field 58 candidates; releases ambitious manifesto
THE Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) - the country's newest political entity - says it will be fielding 58 candidates in the September 3 General Election, General Secretary Robert Rainford confirmed to the Jamaica Observer on Thursday.
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