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Small business aid went beyond hard-hit companies, data show - Black News Channel
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The government on Monday identified roughly 650,000 mostly small businesses and nonprofits that received taxpayer money from a program that likely helped prevent the job market meltdown from growing worse but that
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Adidas HR Head Resigns as Company Addresses Diversity Issues - Black News Channel
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer/BNC Contributer NEW YORK (AP) — The head of global human resources at sports apparel and shoe company Adidas resigned Tuesday following criticism from employees of what they see as the companys failure to diversify its workforce. Karin Parkins resignation comes
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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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Appeals Court: Trump Wrongly Diverted $2.5B for Border Wall - Black News Channel
By DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press/ BNC Contributor SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against the Trump administration in its transfer of $2.5 billion from military construction projects to build sections of the U.S. border wall with Mexico, ruling it illegally sidestepped
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Demonstrators Resist as Crews Arrive at Seattle Protest Zone - Black News Channel
By AP / BNC Contributor SEATTLE (AP) — Crews arrived with heavy equipment arrived early Friday at Seattles occupied protest zone, apparently ready to dismantle barriers set up by demonstrators, but halted work when demonstrators resisted, including by lying on top of some of the makeshift
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Somalia to Delay Elections by 13 Months - Black News Channel
By ABDI GULED Associated Press/ BNC Contributor NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalias election body says it intends to delay the parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for November by 13 months, citing the countrys security problems. Announcing that a new date for the elections in
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GOP worries Trumps divisive June imperils Senate control - Black News Channel
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trumps June began with his Bible-clutching photo op outside a church after authorities used chemicals and batons to scatter peaceful demonstrators. It never got less jarring or divisive. By months end, he was downplaying a coronavirus
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Rayshard Brooks struggled in system but didnt hide his past - Black News Channel
By SUDHIN THANAWALA and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rayshard Brooks didnt hide his history. About five months before he was killed by Atlanta police in a Wendys parking lot — before his name and case would become the latest rallying point in a massive call for racial justice and
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Lobbyist Abramoff Charged in Cryptocurrency Fraud Case - Black News Channel
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jack Abramoff, a once-powerful lobbyist who spent time in federal prison for fraud and corruption, has been charged in a San Francisco court in an investor fraud case involving cryptocurrency and lobbying disclosure, federal authorities announced Thursday. U.S. Attorney David
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Big Ten Scraps Nonconference Football Games due to Pandemic - Black News Channel
By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer/ BNC Contributor  The Big Ten Conference announced Thursday it will not play nonconference games in football and several other sports this fall, the most dramatic move yet by a power conference because of the coronavirus pandemic. The league cited medical advice in
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Presidential Candidate Amadou Coulibaly Dies - Black News Channel
By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press/ BNC Contributor ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, the presidential candidate of Ivory Coasts ruling party, died Wednesday just days after returning from two months of medical treatment in France, where he
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Plan Advances to Allow Dismantling Minneapolis Police Dept. - Black News Channel
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press/ BNC Contributor MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously advanced a proposal to change the city charter to allow the police department to be dismantled, following widespread criticism of law enforcement over the
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Biden and Trump Agree Election Could be Corrupt - Black News Channel
By BILL BARROW Associated Press/BNC Contributor ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump and his challenger, Joe Biden, have found something they agree on: The November election could be rife with corruption because of how officials handle the voting process. Of course, the Republican incumbent and
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OP-ED: Past Due Time for American Healthcare System to Protect Black Americans - Black News Channel
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., President and CEO, National Newspaper Publishers Association Today, Americans are facing unprecedented times. We are in the midst of a global pandemic, our country has fallen into an economic recession, and hundreds of thousands are protesting police brutality and
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Oprah, Lionsgate to help adapt The 1619 Project for film, TV - Black News Channel
By The Associated Press undefined/BNC Contributor Oprah Winfrey and Lionsgate are partnering with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to adapt the The New York Times recent project examining the legacy of slavery for film and television. Lionsgate said Wednesday that it will work
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Facebook Bans Violent Boogaloo groups, not term itself - Black News Channel
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer/ BNC Contributor OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook has banned an extremist anti-government network loosely associated with the broader boogaloo movement, a slang term supporters use to refer to a second Civil War or a collapse of civilization. But the platform
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Former Atlanta Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Seeks Bail - Black News Channel
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press/ BNC Contributor ATLANTA (AP) — The former Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks will appear in court Tuesday to ask a judge to release him from jail while his case is pending. Garrett Rolfe, who is white, faces felony murder and other charges in the
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The Noose Was Real - NASCAR releases photo from Talladega - Black News Channel
By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer/ BNC Contributor Declaring the noose was real, NASCAR officials on Thursday released a photo of the rope found in the speedway garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace that prompted a federal investigation into whether he had been the target of a hate crime. The
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The Sacramento Community Gathers at Cesar Chavez Park
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Sponsor FedEx asks Redskins to Change Their Name - Black News Channel
AP/BNC Contributor WASHINGTON (AP) — The title sponsor of the Washington Redskins stadium wants the NFL team to change its name. We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name, FedEx said in a statement Thursday. The company paid the team $205 million in
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Seattle cops clear occupied zone, more than 20 arrested - Black News Channel
By MARTHA BELLISLE and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police turned out in force early Wednesday at the citys occupied protest zone, tore down demonstrators encampments and used bicycles to herd the protesters after the mayor ordered the area cleared following two fatal
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Seattle mayor orders occupied area cleared, police arrive - Black News Channel
By MARTHA BELLISLE and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police converged on the citys occupied protest zone early Wednesday after Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an executive order for protesters to vacate the area. People have occupied several blocks around a park and the Seattle
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More than a Dozen Dead After Record-breaking Rainfall in Japan - Black News Channel
By: Brittany Lockley/ BNC Journalist A widespread flash flooding event has left 18 people dead and 14 people missing in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima in southwestern Japan, according to local authorities. Heavy downpours deluged prefectures Friday into Saturday. On
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Grizzlies Morant Apologizes for Anti-Police Post - Black News Channel
By AP/BNC Contributor MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis Grizzlies rookie guard Ja Morant posted and deleted an Instagram photo suggesting hed replace his name with an expletive on his number 12 jersey in a protest against police. Morant apologized Sunday night, saying the message didnt accurately
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Restaurants raise money for Rayshard kids - Black News Channel
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Howard Lands Big Name in Mens Basketball - Black News Channel
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Confirmed new virus cases hit a new high in US - Black News Channel
By MICHELLE R. SMITH and FRANCES D'EMILIO Associated Press The number of confirmed new virus cases per day in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40,000 Friday — eclipsing the mark set during one of the deadliest stretches in late April — in a resurgence that has led some governors to backtrack or at
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Europe Restricts Visitors from The US Amid Virus Resurgence - Black News Channel
By LORNE COOK and TAMARA LUSH Associated Press/ BNC Contributor On Tuesday, European countries decided to reopen to visitors from 14 countries, but not the U.S., where some of the states are now seeing surges in confirmed COVID-19 infections. The European Unions decision came a day after Arizona
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Doctors say experimental treatment may have rid man of HIV - Black News Channel
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer A Brazilian man infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body, doctors reported Tuesday. The case
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