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Michelle Obama is not biting her tongue about the Black experience on her new podcast, “The Michelle Obama Podcast.” On... View Article The post Michelle Obama: 'We could've never gotten away with' what Trump does appeared first on TheGrio.
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Memphis Minnie continued recording with throughout the late 1930s with Vocalion while backed by Kansas Joe’s brother, the mandolin player Papa Charlie and her husband, a singer named Little Son
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Coronavirus Live Updates: CDC Chief Issues Stark Warning On Possible Second Wave And More Lockdowns As Global Cases Top 5 Million | The Oklahoma Eagle
As the world reached 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases Thursday, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said he can’t guarantee whether a second round of lockdowns is coming as a possible second wave of the virus
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Loni Love dishes details on new book and coping with COVID-19 crisis
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Ice T
Tracy Marrow, better known as Ice T is mostly celebrated for his rap songs concerning street life & violence. He has been an influential figure for the gangster rap genre. Highly controversial songs such as Cop Killer brought much fame to Ice T. He also pursued a career in acting, his most
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TALLAHASSEE – State university system Chancellor Marshall Criser next week will present guidelines for reopening university campuses in the fall, after students were sent home in March to curb the spread of
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Rep. Maxine Waters Keynotes California Statewide Black Graduation
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Veterans need lots of choices, including postsecondary career schools
But when it comes to trusting veterans to use that same sound judgement to put their GI Bill benefits to use they suddenly act as if we are
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US farmers worried as crop prices dip
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For Non-Black Students Attending HBCUs, The Experience Could Be A Life-Changing Walk In Our Shoes - Blavity
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U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters has dedicated over thirty years of her life to local and national politics. Born Maxine Moore Carr in St. Louis, Missouri on August 15, 1938, Waters moved to Los Angeles, California in 1961. While working in a garment factory and for a local telephone company, she
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This Newspaper Has Never Forgotten The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — And Its Fight Continues | The Oklahoma Eagle
Walk through the Greenwood neighborhood, Goodwin says, and you can’t miss the metal plaques on sidewalks commemorating the hundreds of black-owned businesses set ablaze during the 1921 Tulsa Race
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Indonesian leader in ‘Trump-like’ fight with governors
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Harold Robinson Foundation sends kids to camp
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The Gantt Report: Protest Pimps
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'America told us to get over it': Black Vietnam veterans hail Spike Lee film that finally tells their story
Black veterans across America are hoping this painful and enduring legacy will get the attention it deserves in Spike Lee’s new film, Da 5 Bloods, which chronicles the journey of four African American vets who return to Vietnam in search of their fallen squad leader and buried
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