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Racists take page from white supremacist playbook and criminally charge Black leaders taking a stand

A vice mayor is the latest of 14 Black people targeted with criminal charges in Virginia after speaking out about racism following the removal of a Confederate monument. A local news station was with Portsmouth Vice Mayor Lisa Lucas-Burke Monday...

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“While you may have had many black pastors and clergy who may have shown up at events, and you may have had a lot of people from black churches who were at these marches and protests, from 2014 to the present, by and large, this has not been a theological movement,” said Watson Jones III, the

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Judge orders 10-day delay after Virginia governor says Confederate monument to Robert E. Lee must come down

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Senior officials from other political parties including those from Zanu PF’s arch-rival, the MDC-T, hailed Chindori-Chininga as someone who was candid in the handling of his work, including the Mines and Energy Parliamentary Portfolio Committee that he was chairing at the time of his

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Mavs Seek Racial Healing With “Courageous Conversations”

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#ThrowBack: Military steps in, denies coup

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