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Ice Cube Will Meet with Biden to Discuss Contract with Black America
O'Shea Jackson AKA Ice Cube will finally get that Contract with Black America looked at by the current president, Joe Biden
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Commentary: Leonard Pitts Jr.: For African Americans, faith is not confined to the hope of heaven - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… mean two different things. For African Americans, faith is not confined to … case for Black people. For African Americans, says Gates, church is where … Old Faithful at Yellowstone Park.” African Americans deal with that stream now …
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Mayor Eric Johnson's statement on federal mass vaccination site in Dallas | Dallas Weekly
DALLAS — Mayor Eric Johnson on Wednesday released the following statement after the announcement that Fair Park will serve as a community vaccination site run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state: 'We must all work to quickly and efficiently vaccinate as many people as possible
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Biden and congressional Democrats to unveil immigration bill | The Atlanta Voice
President Joe Biden’s administration is joining Democrats on Capitol Hill to unveil a major immigration overhaul that would offer an eight-year pathway to citizenship to the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal status. The legislation, to be released in detail Thursday
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Louisiana trooper suspended over violent death of shackled man -
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Emmanuel Acho to replace Chris Harrison on ‘The Bachelor: After the Final Rose’ - TheGrio
Emmanuel Acho has been tasked with replacing Chris Harrison as host The Bachelor: After the Final Rose following a controversy... View Article The post Emmanuel Acho to replace Chris Harrison on ‘The Bachelor: After the Final Rose’ appeared first on TheGrio.
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Arizona State University Renames Film School to Honor Sidney Poitier - Voice and Viewpoint
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Arizona State University has named its new film school after legendary actor Sidney Poitier. According to a USA Today report, the decision to name the school after Poitier, 93, is about much more than an emphasis on diversity. In an
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Biden gives Calif. woman pep talk in weekly address revival - Black News Channel
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden gave a pep talk to a California woman who was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic, during a conversation the White House said is part of an effort to help him engage more consistently with regular
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Tyler Perry's The Oval
In this Tyler Perry drama, a seemingly perfect interracial first family becomes the White House's newest residents. But behind closed doors they unleash a torrent of lies, cheating and corruption.
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VIDEO: Trump Teases Third White House Run As He Launches Act Two Of His Political Career – The Wilmington Journal
ORLANDO, Fla. — Donald J. Trump said Sunday that he might run for the White House a third time in the hope of defeating his successor, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The former president claimed [...]
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Vernon Jordan, activist, former Clinton adviser, has died
Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Vernon Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights before reinventing himself as a Washington insider and corporate influencer, has died, according to a statement from his daughter. He was 85. “My father passed
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The President's Covid Relief Package - Los Angeles Sentinel
President Biden has announced bold goals for the much needed Covid relief package that America so desperately needs. But sometimes good intentions can fall upon bad roadblocks. The post The President's Covid Relief Package appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
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Designation of February as African American Heritage Month - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… Lincoln, who emancipated African Americans from slavery. People … that we should celebrate African American history every month. … 1976, February as African American Heritage Month received national … further dignifies the African American Heritage rooted in …
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Blacks Seven Times Likelier to be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder Than Whites: Study - The Washington Informer
Black people are seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than white people, according to the latest report from The Innocence Project. The post Blacks Seven Times Likelier to be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder Than Whites: Study appeared first on The Washington Informer.
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Where Black Americans Will Travel Farther than Whites for COVID-19 Vaccination
Similar to the idea of "food deserts," many urban Black neighborhoods lack pharmacies, clinics, hospitals or health centers that can administer COVID-19 vaccine
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Tyler Perry, Clintons among mourners at Cicely Tyson memorial service - DefenderNetwork.com
Tyler Perry and Bill and Hillary Clinton were among the attendees of a private memorial service for Cicely Tyson at Harlem's famed Abyssinian Baptist Church. Gospel singer Bebe Winans sang “Stand”— a request from Tyson before her death — and a letter was read by rocker Lenny Kravi
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Young Icons: Dee Dwyer
Protests are not new to Washington, DC and are happening all the time, says Dee Dwyer—a photojournalist born and raised on the southeast side of the nation’s capital. But there was something different about the protests that swept the city during the summer of 2020. The world was on fire. We were
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Bayard Rustin Biopic Coming To Netflix
A biopic about civil rights leader Bayard Rustin’s relentless fight for social justice is in the works.
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I SAW THE SIEGE: ‘You’re There, You’re In The Heart Of It So It Felt So Unreal’ – Free Press of Jacksonville
During Black History Month, Zenger News presents “I Saw the Siege,” a series of on-camera interviews with African-American eyewitnesses to the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “We knew that this was [...]
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Thirty years ago, I watched Rodney King beaten. We thought our fight was finally over. | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Rep. Karen Bass When I first saw the tape ofRodney Kingbeing beaten in the middle of the street on March 3, 1991, I was not horrified or surprised. I was hopeful. I believed that now, finally, the public would believe what Black and Latino activists had been saying: that police brutality is real
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The Meaning Of The 5%: A Look At The Nation Of Gods And Earths
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Young Icons: Rob Liggins
During the summer of 2020, during a global pandemic and after the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, protestors throughout the United States (and the world) took to the streets to demand the end to police and white vigilante violence against Black people. These moments
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GOP attacks Dems' $1.9T COVID-19 relief bill from all angles - Black News Channel
By ALAN FRAM, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are attacking the Democrats' $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package as too costly, economically damaging and overtly partisan, an all-angles attempt to derail new President Joe Biden's top priority
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At Camp David retreat, Biden hangs out, shows he's got game - Black News Channel
By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spent his third week in office visiting the Pentagon, touring the National Institutes of Health and working on the administration's COVID-19 response. He capped it off by beating one of his granddaughters at Mario Kart during
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Despite Biden Administration Making Inequality and Climate Change a Priority, Advocates for Black Farmers Skeptical Real Change Will Come
Black farmers today are rare — but it wasn’t always this way. In 1920, Black-owned farms made up 14 percent of the industry. However, decades of racial
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COMMENTARY: The future of America is people of color | Afro
NNPA - There is a diversity explosion taking place across the country, in the White House, in Congress, with women and with people of color. The new census reports confirm the importance of racial minorities as the primary demographic engine of the nation’s growth. By Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire
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A Timeline Of Black Women Politicians Who Paved The Way For Kamala Harris’ Historic VP Run
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Mass protests have brought attention to racism in systems, actions and beliefs. But as 15-year-old Lily Gallentine discovered, hate can also take shape in objects.
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