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Byron Allen’s $10 billion lawsuit against McDonald’s is one of accountability and the desire to create economic inclusion for the... View Article The post Byron Allen on McDonald’s lawsuit: Black people built wealthiest nation and 'that's the extortion' appeared first on TheGrio.
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Rwanda: French Cancer Institute on Why It Named Auditorium After Kagame
[New Times] President Paul Kagame last week inaugurated the 'President Paul Kagame Auditorium' at the Research Institute against Digestive Cancer (IRCAD) based in Strasbourg, France.
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Should I Seek Help for My Drinking Problem? | PensacolaVoice Magazine 2021
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Family members mourn loss of 6-year-old shooting victim Aiden Leos at vigil in Orange - L.A. Focus News
Family of Aiden Leos gathered Tuesday evening for a vigil on the 55 Freeway overpass in Orange near where an assailant shot and killed the 6-year-old boy in an apparent road rage incident on Friday. Family members of 6-year-old Aiden Leos stand at a makeshift memorial on the Walnut Avenue overpass
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Congo-Kinshasa: Residents Return Home As Nyiragongo Lava Flow Stops
[Nation] Kinshasa -- A few hours after finding refuge in Rwanda, some residents of Goma in the DR Congo are returning home as the Nyiragongo volcano, which erupted on Saturday, seems to be calming down.
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DART Holds Older Americans Month Celebration Drive-Thru | Dallas Weekly
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and Dallas Park and Recreation held their annual Older Americans Month Celebration Drive-Thru event on Friday, May 21. This year's theme was Communities of Strength. Older adults have built resilience and strength over their lives through
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Niger distributing more than 4 million mosquito nets to fight malaria | News24
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Angola At 74th World Health Assembly
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Rwanda: FERWAFA Executive Committee Members Resign, Elections Set for June
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Check It Out: UN inquiry into U.S. police brutality | New Pittsburgh Courier
by J. Pharoah Doss For New Pittsburgh Courier Recently, 200 families representing loved ones that were victimized by American police forces during the past two decades have teamed up with 300 civil liberties organizations and filed a request with the United Nations asking for the Human Rights
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Youth, women facing challenges to access NEEF loans
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African NBA Scout Eyes Talent in BAL Tourney - The Kenya News
The inaugural Africa Basketball League tournament is entering the playoff stage. For Sonny Side of Sports, VOA's Prince Nesta spoke with Sarah Chan, Africa scouting manager for the 2019 NBA champion Toronto Raptors, about her basketball journey and the games plying in the BAL.The interview was
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Tobago fisherfolk help stranded vessel: 'Give us a rescue boat' - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
The All Tobago Fisherfolk Association (ATFA) on Monday called on the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) to provide it with a rescue boat. The call came the day after Castara fishermen rescued their peers who were stranded at sea off Speyside in a 110-foot fishing boat, captained by Donald Ladee, f
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Henry Mussa Ntengo-wa-Minga demands apology, K10m from ‘Gogo Gowoka’ for defamation
Veteran politician and former cabinet minister Henry Mussa Ntengo-wa-Minga is demanding K10 million from Mzuzu-based businessman and Facebook fanatic Upson Mkandawire as compensation for alleged defamation. Mussa told Nyasa Times in Blantyre recently that Mkandawire, who uses pseudonym 'Gogo
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Africa: Director-General's Live Speech At Ministerial Meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union On Access to Vaccines Against the Covid-19 Pandemic for the African Continent - Challenges to Human Security in Africa
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Vereen and Gossett Cement their “Roots” as Fellow Inductees Frazier and Avery join them in the American Black Film Institute’s Hall of Fame | UnityFirst
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Africa: World Bank Mulls Covid-19 Vaccine Production in Africa
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For fifty-five years we have managed to hold together a pluralistic society - Stabroek News
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Don’t lead us into constitutional crises but deliver us from contempt of court - NewsDay Zimbabwe
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(Trinidad Express) - Couva market vendor Amar Ramkhalwhan would have turned 34 in just four months had his life not been taken by the Covid-19 virus. The article Trinidad COVID victim, 33, died pleading for oxygen appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Floyd's death laid bare the 'Minnesota Paradox' of racism | The Atlanta Voice
George Floyd’s death under a white Minneapolis police officer’s knee severely tarnished Minnesota’s reputation as a progressive state on matters of race. Many Black residents say it was never deserved in the first place. The state’s seemingly polite exterior, exemplified by the nickname “Minnesota
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