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Legendary singer Dionne Warwick found herself trending on Saturday night after her tweet to Chance The Rapper went viral. 'Hi,... View Article The post Dionne Warwick, Chance The Rapper's hilarious tweets go viral appeared first on TheGrio.
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Rams’ Troy Hill picks right time for big play in win over Arizona | L.A. Focus News
Big talk is not Troy Hill’s game. Big plays are. After the cornerback’s interception and touchdown sealed the Rams’ 38-28 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday in Glendale, Ariz., it was up to others to say just how big it felt. “It was huge,” Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald said. “When
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The Dossier: Jeff Fort and The Black P. Stone Nation Pt. II
Jeff Fort and Eugene Hairston would form the Blackstone Rangers in Chicago during the 1950s. By the 1960s, the group became the sizable and powerful Black P. Stone Nation. Towards the end of the decade, Fort would become the gang's lone leader. First Conviction Fort would strike up working
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Seven bodies discovered inside Free State mineshaft | News24
The Free State police have opened an inquest after seven bodies were discovered inside a mineshaft at Kopanang Mine in Vierfontein.
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Caribbean congressional representative strongly supports decriminalization of marijuana
NEW YORK, Dec 6, CMC – A Democratic Congressman, whose district in Brooklyn and Queens in New York represents a significant number of Caribbean nationals, has strongly supported passage of legislation in the US House of Representatives...
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City of Johannesburg cuts power to Randburg school with R3.7 million unpaid electricity bill | News24
A Johannesburg-based private high school that owes the City of Johannesburg millions of rands due to unpaid bills has had its power cut.
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Caribbean congressional representative supports decriminalisation of ganja
NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - A Democratic congressman, whose district in Brooklyn and Queens in New York represents a significant number of Caribbean nationals, has strongly supported passage of legislation in the US House of Representatives decriminalising marijuana.
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Kenya Moore Says She Went On A Date With Kanye West And It Was A ‘Disaster’
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Millions of hungry Americans turn to food banks for 1st time - DefenderNetwork.com
The deadly pandemic that tore through the nation’s heartland struck just as Aaron Crawford was in a moment of crisis. He was looking for work, his wife needed surgery, then the virus began eating away at her work hours and her paycheck. The Crawfords had no savings, mounting bills and a growing
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Republicans Make Clear Their Georgia Senate Strategy: Attack Warnock
… state’s most prominent African-American Democrat, Stacey Abrams, … getting some of their African-American voters to come … . “But African-Americans have never had an African-American Senate candidate … disturbing — referring to an African-American man as an “it …
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Secretary of Education — who will it be? | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Curtis Weathers Special to TSDMemphis.com President-elect Joe Biden is moving swiftly to fill cabinet positions in his administration. My interest, of course, is who he will select as the new Secretary of Education. Biden and his advisers have been getting both solicited and unsolicited advice
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Zinara boss ‘victimises’ surbodinates exposing corruption
ZINARA chief executive officer Nkosinathi Ncube was yesterday arraigned before Harare magistrate Trynos Wutawashe on allegations of victimising and transferring four subordinates who had been interviewed by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) over graft in the parastatal. BY MIRIAM
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US raises concern over Biti arrest
THE United States embassy in Harare has expressed concern over the arrest of MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti in connection with an alleged assault of a Russian woman. BY RICHARD MUPONDE Biti was arrested on Friday for calling a Russian national Tatiana Aleshina an “idiot” and exchanging
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$8K reward offered for information on killers of retired Chicago firefighter Dwain Williams | The Crusader Newspaper Group
By Jessica D'Onofrio and Stacey Baca, ABC7 News An $8,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the people who killed a retired Chicago Fire Department lieutenant Thursday afternoon. Lt. Dwain Williams, 65, was killed in a shooting during an attempted armed carjacking in
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Shema Kolainu - Hear Our Voices Webinar Addresses the 4 A's of Autism as a Pathway to Fulfilling and Productive Lives
Led by Dr. Stephen Shore, Ed.D., Awareness, Acceptance, and Appreciation to Action were discussed as an outline towards an abilities-based model of autism. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, December 8, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- -- On Monday, …
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Justice For Omari Bryant: Black Teen In ‘Suspicious’ Hanging Was Not Suicidal, Friends And Family Say
Omari Bryant's body was hanging in front of a motel early Saturday morning in the town of Homerville and people close to the 18-year-old are doubting the cause of death is suicide.
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The Daily 202: Xavier Becerra’s bet pays off as Biden picks him for HHS secretary - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
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To hell and back - Recovering from COVID-19, Basil Waite said God pulled him from death’s door
Reflecting on his harrowing ordeal since contracting COVID-19, Basil Waite is urging Jamaicans to take the pandemic more seriously, adding that it was only God’s grace which pulled him back from death’s door. In an interview with The Sunday Gleaner...
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L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón Ends Cash Bail, Announces Several Reforms
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Archbishop Wilton Gregory becomes first Black American Cardinal in the Catholic church | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Danielle Sanders Archbishop Wilton Gregory becomes the first Black American Cardinal in the Catholic church’s history. Archbishop Gregory was born and raised in Chicago and ordained a priest in 1973. A product of the Englewood neighborhood, he grew up in a family that was not Catholic. They
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[SAnews.gov.za] The Justice and Correctional Services Ministry has kick-started the process to extradite fugitives Shepard and Mary Bushiri who escaped the country while facing criminal charges.
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Billie - North Dallas Gazette
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic She had an enigmatic presence. A unique, restrained voice with distinctive phrasing. Wrote and sang the iconic protest song “Strange Fruit.” That’s her. Billie Holiday. Lady Day. Died too young and now a faint memory. Eleanora Fagan was born on April
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LAWSON | Chicago Defender
Joan H. Lawson……………..Visitation will be held: Thursday, December 10, 2020; 12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m.; @ Taylor Funeral Home Ltd., 63 E. 79th Street, Chicago, IL; Internment: Washington Memorial Gardens ; Arrangements Entrusted To: Taylor Funeral Home, 63 East 79th. Street, Chicago, IL
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AP sources: Biden picks Fudge for housing, Vilsack for USDA | The Atlanta Voice
President-elect Joe Biden made two key domestic policy picks, selecting Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge as his housing and urban development secretary and former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to reprise that role in his administration, according to five people familiar with the decisions. The picks on
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Will the Black Community Get Shut Out From COVID Vaccination? | Dallas Weekly
While the CDC said there should be enough doses for as many as 20 million people to receive vaccination by the end of December, health officials expect a much larger supply in the coming months. Still, with a justified distrust of unproven vaccines, and a perceived limited participation by African
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The County of Los Angeles Vs. Sheriff Alex Villanueva; Showdown Heats Up With Both Parties Heading to Court Next Month | L.A. Focus News
By Keith DeLawder, Staff After two years of contention between Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva and county officials, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is officially seeking pathways to remove the County’s top law enforcement Officer. In a motion put-forward in late
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“Date with Kanye West ‘Was a Disaster’,” RHOA Star Kenya Moore Says
By Victor Omondi Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kenya Moore is on the news after sharing her dating experience with rapper Kanye West in a virtual appearance on the “Wendy Williams Show”. The former beauty queen disclosed that she had gone on a date with Kanye West once, and she termed it as
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Singer Donell Jones Talks Being an Independent Artist, Working with Left Eye and LaFace Records Treating Him Like a 'Stepchild'
R&B singerDonell Jones, 47, is all for artists owning the rights to their music. He opened up about that, his seven-year hiatus from releasing new […]
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Should the ANC push Ace and others out? Dali Mpofu argues no, cites CR17 campaign | News24
Mpofu argues that the stepping-aside regime clearly constitutes some limitation or infringement of member's rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights adding that such limitation would not be justified in terms of Section 36 of the Constitution.
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