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Funding Through PPP Can Still Give Black Businesses A Lifeline
The window for small businesses to apply for the Paycheck Protection Program is quickly drawing to a close, and the Treasury Department reports there’s more than $130 billion left in [] The post Black Small Businesses Have Hours Left To Apply For PPP appeared first on Essence.
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Harlem’s National Black Theatre celebrates Founder’s Month
NEW YORK — Harlem’s historic National Black Theatre (NBT) is hosting an annual salute to its founder and CEO emerita, the late Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, with NBT’s Founder’s Month, a month-long celebration of Teer, Black theater and
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Mississippi Legislature Approves Bill to Change State Flag - New Orleans Data News Weekly
Data News Staff Edited Report As the tide of history is turning, the Mississippi Legislature made history Sunday, by approving a bill that will change the state flag and erase a Confederate Battle Emblem that
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Evangelical Leaders Seek To Insulate Churches From Some COVID-19 Lawsuits
As some U.S. churches seek to open their doors for in-person services, a group of mostly evangelical Christian religious leaders is urging Congress to grant faith-based organizations legal immunity from coronavirus-related negligence
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'Not fit for animals' - Nigeria police rescue 300 workers locked in a factory
About 300 rice processing workers who were forced to work during the coronavirus lockdown in northern Kano, Nigeria have been rescued by the
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Caricom dismayed at new developments in Guyana
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Ilhan Omar Wants To Build Progressive Power. She’s Starting With This Muslim Candidate. - The New York Beacon
In the final months of the 2020 election cycle, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is exercising her influence as a national progressive leader, endorsing Ihssane Leckey, a former Wall Street regulator and an immigrant Muslim woman. Leckey — running on a platform backing the Green
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In Letter to Congress: Black Wealth 2020 Sends Plea for Unity in Pandemic Relief Black-owned businesses got little relief under PPP
As the U. S. House of Representatives awaits the political fate of another multi-trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill, called the “Heroes Act”, Black Wealth 2020 (BW2020), a national catalyst for economic justice for African-Americans, is pressing Congressional leaders to unify for equity for
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Americans Have United Before to Defeat an External Enemy and We Can Again
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Vaz shifted... Removed from land portfolio, given water and housing
In a statement Wednesday afternoon, Jamaica House said Prime Minister Andrew Holness has instead assigned him responsibility for the water and housing
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Hamilton takes seat in Senate
ATTORNEY-AT-law Tova Hamilton yesterday took her seat on the Government benches in the Senate after taking the oath of allegiance. Hamilton, who will be contesting the Trelawny North seat for the Jamaica Labour Party in the upcoming general...
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GOP aghast as Trumps polls sink amid divisive racial rhetoric: Its been a bad couple weeks | The Atlanta Voice
President Donald Trump is doubling down on a strategy he believes worked to his advantage four years ago: seizing on divisive culture wars and using race-baiting rhetoric as he seeks to fire up his base to give him a second term in office. His GOP allies on Capitol Hill are looking on with
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LeBron James & Maverick Carter Raise $100 Million For New Media Company
The childhood friends are planning to consolidate their media companies into a single conglomerate, SpringHill, which has a purpose of serving as a multifaceted platform to empower Black creators and
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Trump signs police reform executive order that focuses on training, falls short of protesters’ demands
President Trump on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 addressed the issue of police brutality by taking executive action that would provide incentives for police departments to increase training about the use of force and to strengthen a national database to track
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Senate Extends Small Business COVID-19 Relief Program - Black News Channel
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press/ BNC Contributor WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats drove a temporary extension of a popular subsidy program for small businesses through the GOP-controlled Senate late Tuesday, an unexpected development that came as spikes in coronavirus cases in many states are causing
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Morehouse School of Medicine Awarded $40 Million Federal Grant to Fight COVID-19 – Free Press of Jacksonville
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) selected the Morehouse School of Medicine as the recipients of a $40 million initiative to combat the coronavirus outbreak in vulnerable
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In Letter to Congress: Black Wealth 2020 Sends Plea for Unity in Pandemic Relief Black-owned businesses got little relief under PPP
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – As the U. S. House of Representatives awaits the political fate of another multi-trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill, called the “Heroes Act”, Black Wealth 2020 (BW2020), a national catalyst for economic justice for African-Americans, is pressing Congressional leaders to
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Detangled: DJ Akademiks Claims Complex Fired Him; Drops New Freestyle [Video]
Hip-Hop's most hated media personality has apparently been shown the door. Akademiks is saying he has been fired from his talk show. 
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Robert Johnson's Big Idea: $14 trillion in slavery reparations to African-Americans
Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, says it's time America atones for slavery and systemic racism by paying African-Americans reparations to make them economically equal to white
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Democrats Knock GOP Police Reform Bill, Call For 'Improvement'
Senate Democrats on Wednesday threw cold water on Republican-authored police reform legislation, calling it an inadequate and half-hearted solution to hold police officers accountable in the wake of the death of George
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Senate Democrats Criticize Republican Policing Bill
“Let us all be clear about what is happening in the politics of this moment. The Republican bill has been thrown out to give lip service to an issue with nothing substantial in it that would actually save or would have saved any of those lives.” California Senator Kamala Harris Before Demoncratic
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Charles Booker Suddenly Has Progressives Excited About Kentucky
But in the last three weeks, progressive state Rep. Charles Booker, the youngest Black state lawmaker elected in Kentucky in nearly a century, has interrupted McGrath’s quiet stroll to the
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Mitch McConnell Opens Door to 2nd Round of Stimulus Checks
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday supported a second round of stimulus checks amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Black Americans are carrying a heavy burden, and we could use your help with the load
Just six days before George Floyd’s killing and the resulting call to action in our country, I became the executive director of one of the largest education nonprofits in North Texas — its second-ever woman and first-ever black commander in
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OP ED: America Should Embrace Prison Returnees to Our Communities | Dallas Weekly
That tension between theory and policy is, sadly, beginning to emerge yet again in Washington, DC, where some community advocates have raised objections to plans for a new residential re-entry center that would provide temporary housing, job and skills training, substance-abuse counseling and other
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Gov. Abbott says Texas facing ‘Massive’ COVID-19 outbreak
Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the state is facing a “massive outbreak” in the coronavirus pandemic as the numbers of new cases and hospitalizations hit record highs, and that some new local restrictions may be needed to protect hospital space for new
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Trump Notches His 200th Lifetime Federal Judge
WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans on Wednesday confirmed President Donald Trump’s 200th lifetime federal judge, a number higher than any president has confirmed in a first term in
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Police Reform Stalls Out In The Senate
A GOP-backed police reform bill stalled in the Senate Wednesday amid historic protests against police brutality across the country, leaving the issue in limbo just one month after George Floyd’s gruesome death at the hands of police officers in
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We have done our best to manage COVID-19 – Greene
While new concerns looming about the nation’s capacity to contain a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 with the gradual reopening of the island’s borders, Errol Greene, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), believes his administration is in a state of readiness to give of
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House Democrats Push Toward Policing Vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a policing overhaul collapsed in the Senate, House Democrats returned to Washington for a day heavy with emotion and symbolism to vote on their sweeping proposal to address the global outcry over the death of George Floyd and other Black
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