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Shirley Verrett was a distinguished mezzo-soprano and soprano opera singer. Born in New Orleans on May 31, 1931, one of five children to strict Seventh Day Adventists, her father was a successful building contractor. She came from a musical family, her mother often sang in the house and her father
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Top psychiatrist wants forensic facility to avoid Noel Chambers case repeat
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Psychiatric Association (JPA) Dr Earl Wright is appealing for the establishment of a forensic psychiatric facility to be at the forefront of the Government's agenda to avoid a recurrence of what took place with Noel Chambers, the elderly man who died at the Tower Street
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Michael Wilbon tells Doc Walker that Boston fans need to “own who they are”
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Black Republican Opponent Expected to Defeat Stockton’s Popular Democratic Mayor Michael Tubbs - Black Voice News
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media  In 2012, Stockton, California, elected 22-year-old Michael Tubbs to his hometown’s city council.  From that celebrated victory to his 2017 rise to mayor of the Central Valley city, media pundits and Democratic Party insiders have hailed Tubbs, calling
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Ayi Kwei Armah , (born 1939, Takoradi, Gold Coast [now Ghana]), Ghanaian novelist whose work deals with corruption and materialism in contemporary
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Protesters detained as they continue to press City of Cape Town for services to new shacks | News24
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Rayshard Brooks Killer Garrett Rolfe Charged with Felony Murder
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Suspect to be charged over Linden vendor’s murder - Stabroek News
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Namibia: Farmer Killer Gets 36 Years
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The outcry has reverberated for weeks online and at demonstrations nationwide: Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor. But three months after plainclothes detectives serving a warrant busted into her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment and shot the 26-year-old Black woman to death, only one of the
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Octavia Spencer
Octavia Spencer is a contemporary African American actress. She is recognized for her role in the film, The Help, as an outspoken maid. For her remarkable performance she won the prestigious Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award among other
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