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If you value essential workers, raise the minimum wage | Atlanta Daily World
By Holly Sklar Every day in these hard times, grocery workers and delivery drivers, healthcare aides and cleaning staff, childcare workers and fast food cooks, go to work for $7.25 … Continued The post If you value essential workers, raise the minimum wage appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.
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Commentary: Why do we need to be convinced? | New Pittsburgh Courier
by E. Faye Williams (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Jane Elliott said, “If we didn’t have all those years when Black lives didn’t matter, we wouldn’t have to have a Black Lives Matter Movement now.” … Continued The post Commentary: Why do we need to be convinced? appeared first on New Pittsburgh Courier.
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BET Announces First-Ever National Black Voter Day
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Ex-Felons In Florida Who Want To Vote Getting A Much-Needed Assist From LeBron James
The More Than A Vote organization started by James and other athletes is now working to ensure ex-felons will be able to register to vote by donating $100,000 to the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and will go towards their outstanding court debts.
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John Lewis May Be Gone But, His Legacy Remains
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz When we die, we hope that we’ll be remembered but there are certain people in this world who will never be forgotten, and U.S. Rep. John Lewis was one of them. Lewis passed away last week Friday, July 17. He was 80 years old and had fought a six-month battle with cancer. […]
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CBCF renames fellowship after the late John Lewis : TheGrio
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) is honoring the late Congressman John Lewis by renaming one of its fellowship programs... View Article The post Congressional Black Caucus Foundation renames fellowship after the late John Lewis appeared first on TheGrio.
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Pentagon's Confederate flag ban on military bases angers Trump: report : TheGrio
United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made the decision earlier this month to ban Confederate flags from being waved... View Article The post Pentagon's Confederate flag ban on military bases angers Trump: report appeared first on TheGrio.
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If you value essential workers, raise the minimum wage | New Pittsburgh Courier
By Holly Sklar Every day in these hard times, grocery workers and delivery drivers, healthcare aides and cleaning staff, childcare workers and fast food cooks, go to work for $7.25 … Continued The post If you value essential workers, raise the minimum wage appeared first on New Pittsburgh Courier.
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To Be Equal: Our children’s lives are too precious to risk reopening schools without a safety plan | New Pittsburgh Courier
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—“Common sense and intelligence can still determine what we do, even in this crazy environment. We’re not going to use our children as guinea pigs.” – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo … Continued
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WATCH: Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) Talks VP Candidacy, Blasts Trump for Pardons – Free Press of Jacksonville
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ACLU's David Cole: "If Trump seeks to stay in power after losing the election," we'll be ready - African American News Today - EIN News
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Dems will never choose transformative change – Florida Courier
The COVID-19 epidemic proved beyond all rational doubt that decades of bipartisan privatization and austerity had destroyed the U.S. “public” health care system, rendering the nation structurally incapable of coping with the viral onslaught. The late and geographically uneven lockdown succeeded
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Remove the current administration with our vote in November | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Mr. T must go! The president of the United States of America has worn out his welcome with us. He started out bad and has gotten worse. The truth is not in him. At this moment in American history, we are in dire need of presidential leadership. These recent challenges have only punctuated the fact
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America tops 1,000 coronavirus deaths 4 days in a row as experts urge the country to shut down | The Atlanta Voice
As more Covid-19 records get broken, debates on whether to send kids back to school or to shut down the economy again are coming to a head. More than 1,000 people died every day for four straight days last week due to Covid-19. That brings the total US death toll from the virus to more than 146,000
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If you value essential workers, raise the minimum wage | Chicago Defender
By Holly Sklar Every day in these hard times, grocery workers and delivery drivers, healthcare aides and cleaning staff, childcare workers and fast food cooks, go to work for $7.25 … Continued The post If you value essential workers, raise the minimum wage appeared first on Chicago Defender.
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WATCH: Rep. Val Demings talks VP candidacy, blasts Trump for pardons | Chicago Defender
by Stacy M. Brown Congresswoman Val Demings (D-Fla.) was not shy about her willingness to serve as vice president under a potential Joe Biden administration as well as her sincere … Continued
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