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NFL Announces Major Steps to Incentivize Teams to Hire Minorities for Top Posts

In an expansion of its Rooney Rule, which had previously called on teams to interview minority candidates, the league said teams must also interview at least one minority candidate for coordinator openings and one external candidate for positions in teams’ front

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Source: The Florida Star

Quiet Labour Day in St James

While COVID-19 has resulted in restrictions on large public gatherings, residents of St James were still able to get in the spirit of Labour Day celebrations, which was held under the theme, Labour At Home: Clean Up, Fix Up, Plant

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jay-Z is an American rap musician, producer and entrepreneur, and one of the most commercially successful recording artists in America. He was born as Shawn Corey Carter on December 4, 1969 but is better known by his stage name of Jay-Z. His beginnings were humble as he lived in a housing project

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Source: Black History Resources

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In Praise of Mayme Clayton: Images of the African American West

Dr. Mayme Clayton was born in Arkansas and transplanted to California, where she served as law librarian at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), beginning in 1957. In 1969 she helped put together the university’s African American Studies Center Library. But her most astounding

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Source: Black Past

“It’s Time To Step Up”: Black Members of Broadway Community Call Out Racism Behind the Curtain – Free Press of Jacksonville

Many posts expressed outrage, sympathy and offers of solidarity, but a troubling pattern also emerged — members of the black community calling out instances of racism in the theater

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

North Coach Charles Adams wins award

Minneapolis North Football Coach Charles Adams, one of the state’s best, recently won the “Jerry Kill Power of Influence Award” given by the Minnesota Football Coaches Association to honor his impact on his players, school, and

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Remembrance in the Cemetery: In Search of “The Accidental Slaveowner”

In the account below Central Washington University anthropologist Mark Auslander describes why he wrote The Accidental Slaveholder, which describes the curious ways in which the legacy of slavery extend into the contemporary

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Source: Black Past

Newswire :NFL announces major steps to incentive teams to hire minorities for top posts

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Roger Goddell and Troy Vincent

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

“I Couldn’t Defend Myself Because I Looked Crazy” Meagan Good Shares Full Story Behind Her Lighter Complexion

And because Good wasn’t saying anything about her skin, fans assumed the

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Source: MadameNoire

Wake Up And Stay Woke: Looking For Answers?

There’re some who’ve used this time to do positive things that carry with them hope and good feelings about what they’ve been able to do for themselves and for

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Source: Serving Northeast Texas

Egypt: As Lockdown Clears the Air, Cairo Looks to Keep Pollution Low

But the slowdown also has cut air pollution by more than a third in Cairo, a city once ranked as one of the world's 10

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Source: allAfrica.com

Can we trust cruise ships, airlines to protect us from coronavirus? –

Are you ready to sail again with a cruise line that told travelers it was safe when the highly contagious coronavirus was spreading in Florida and worldwide and it clearly

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Source: Daytona Times

Did Fired Cop Derek Chauvin Know George Floyd? The Two Were Once Co-Workers

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We can’t breathe: Chamisa

OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has psyched up hard-pressed Zimbabweans to liberate themselves from the heavy Zanu PF yoke which he claims has shrunk the democratic space and deprived citizens of the much-needed

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Exclusive: MAFS’ Shawniece And Jephte On Their Critics, Not Wearing Wedding Rings, And How Having A Baby Changed Their Marriage

Of all the couples who have been featured on Married at First Sight, there haven’t been many who have been more intriguing to follow than Shawniece Jackson and Jephte

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Karl Malone was born on July 24, 1963 in Summerfield, Louisiana. He was the son of Shirley and Shedrick and was the youngest of nine siblings. Karl was raised by his mother on a farm since his father was married to another woman and lived with her. He committed suicide when Karl was only 14. Karl

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Ryan Williams, a 32-year-old black CEO, says America has been 'hallucinating' about racism and inequality. Until now. | The Atlanta Voice

“We’ve been hallucinating as a country for a long time,” said Williams, the 32-year-old African American founder of Cadre, a startup disrupting the real estate industry with the support of elite investors including George Soros, Mark Cuban and Peter

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Stevie Wonder at 70: Blind but Blessed Beyond Measure

You know the story: Stevie Wonder, the man who brought us such classics as Hotter Than July and Songs In The Key Of Life, was born Steveland Morris six weeks

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Source: The Florida Star

PNP stands in solidarity with peaceful protesters against George Floyd's killing | New York Carib News

PNP stands in solidarity with peaceful protesters against George Floyd’s killing

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Source: The New York Carib News

City Council Places Oakland Youth Vote Measure on November Ballot | Post News Group

The Oakland City Council voted unanimously at its Tuesday meeting to place an Oakland Youth Vote measure on the November ballot, which would give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in Board of Education

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Uncertain future for hundreds of Jamaican teachers in US

HUNDREDS of Jamaican educators in North Carolina, USA, on the J-1 Teacher Exchange Programme are in limbo over their ability to remain in the USA and work legally, due to delays they are experiencing in obtaining a no-objection statement from the Jamaica

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Alice Walker Quotes

Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, has written fiction about African American womens experience. Alice Walker has also been an activist on environmental, feminist, and womanist causes, as well as working for racial and economic

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LisaRaye on why she turned down 'Real Housewives': 'I have a legitimate career'

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Biden Pulls Back On 'Cavalier' Remarks About Black Voters

Former Vice President Joe Biden is backtracking on remarks he made on a popular black radio program on Friday that were criticized as questioning the cultural authenticity of black supporters of President

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Soul Vibrations Corner | New York Carib News

Lucky numbers: 49, 28, 41, 48, 43, 35, 14

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Why do people say Afrobeats star Burna Boy is 'fake'?

What counts differently in the criticisms against Burna Boy is that he has for a while struggled to emerge from the shadows of Fela

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Janelle Monae on Coping With the Pandemic and Her New Amazon Series

Season two of Homecoming, which will be released May 22, marks her first leading role in a streaming

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Basic-school principal hosts free online lessons

KEREEN HIBBERTS, principal of Marcus Garvey Basic School, Kingston, has been hosting free online reading lessons to assist students who are at home due to the coronavirus

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

OP-ED: The stuff of Dreams — MLK goes right on marching

George Floyd is sadly one of many, many African Americans who have been the victim of racial profiling and

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Sunday Brew — May 31, 2020

If information which surfaced over last weekend that there could have been manipulation of Leon Bailey to openly criticise the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is true, then it would be most

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