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As US President Donald Trump and others brazenly use the social network to spread misinformation and foment violence at protests against police brutality, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is clinging to the lame argument that he can’t constitutionally do anything — even as other social media take action and his
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Phillips supports resumption of classes, calls for preparedness
Leader of the Opposition Dr Peter Phillips says he supports the reopening of schools for students to prepare for upcoming external regional
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These decisions by the ministry on exams are reckless given our realities
In some of the wealthiest industrialised countries (Germany, China, and Taiwan) the reopening of schools has been followed by an increased number of COVID-19 cases among the
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More than an athlete
More than an athlete -Local athletes should use their voices to speak up about racial inequality and injustice
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Trinidad: Religious organisations not rushing to reopen
(Trinidad Guardian) Religious organisations will now be allowed to open the doors of their worship centres for Corpus Christi on Thursday after Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday announced Government was moving up the previously-announced opening date by one
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Black America speaks. America should listen.
30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in
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Holness administration declined UK prison offer, Phillips asserts
Leader of the Opposition, Dr Peter Phillip, says he strongly rejects claims from Prime Minister Andrew Holness that the United Kingdom prison offer to Jamaica was implicitly refused by the People’s National Party
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Chiefs to solemnise civil marriages
THE Marriages Bill sailed through the National Assembly on Thursday last week after extensive debate by MPs who felt that chiefs should be given powers to solemnise civil marriages saying clause 9 of the Bill was denying chiefs those
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#Election2020 – Is 'Defund the Police' a massive political mistake? | The Atlanta Voice
Amid the ongoing protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, calls to defund the police have grown increasingly loud — particularly among the activists who are taking to the streets to urge politicians to
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'Sorry' is too little and too late, Roger Goodell | The Atlanta Voice
As Roger Goodell, the league’s longtime commissioner, explained in a video released Friday, “we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully
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We need an independent police force to police the police. Periodt.
Historically, Black people have been tortured by police, lied on by police, and killed by them, and still we continue with this laughable system of police
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BOOKS: Stella Nyanzi tells of prison life in collection of poems
While incarcerated in Luzira Maximum Security Prison in Kampala, she wrote the collection No Roses from My Mouth: Poems from
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President Bio takes to the red carpet in style to launch national tree planting
Launching the country’s national tree planting, afforestation, and reforestation project at Mortomeh in Bathurst, Freetown two days ago, 5th June 2020, this is what president
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Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns From Board, Urges Black Replacement
Alexis Ohanian, a co-founder of social media platform Reddit, resigned from his position as the executive chairman last week, according to The Associated
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England call-up gives Thomas hope of Test career
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Rookie fast bowler Oshane Thomas says he is thrilled by his call-up for the England tour and hopes it can lay the groundwork for a successful Test
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‘I Can’t Breathe – The Murder of George Floyd was a Lynching in Broad Daylight.’
Three police officers stood and watched as a fourth, Derek Chauvin, knelt on
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From Marva with Love: Bobbie Edmonds
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Rapper YG films music video at LA protest; claps back at critics
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C2 Summit delivered to HBCU class of 2020
New York (Black PR Wire) – Nearly 300 HBCU students tuned in to the free, four-day online event as Culture Creators, in partnership with Morgan Stanley, wrapped its second C2 Summit on
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George Floyd's 6-Year Old Daughter, Gianna, Speaks Out: "Dad Changed the World!"
During an appearance on Good Morning America, she told the world that she misses her
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Semi-automatic pistol, ammunition seized in Kingston
The police are reporting the recovery of a .380 semi-automatic pistol with a magazine containing two .380 rounds of ammunition at an open lot along 6th Street in Kingston on
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Judge sets conditional bail of $1 million for ex-officer charged in George Floyd’s death
Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd, had his first court appearance
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Let's Just Be Clear...
Although they join a, seemingly endless list of African Americans who have fallen victim to blatant racism and deranged policing, I am sure that the names Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd will be indelibly linked to a new revolution in this era of
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J'can calls on UK to drop diplomacy in dealing with racism, inequality
ONE of Britain's recognised influential blacks — Jamaican Paulette Simpson — has called for a movement away from heavy reliance on diplomacy to treat with racism and inequality in
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WhatsApp gets a raw deal in payments
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered the fray two years ago by enabling the popular messaging service WhatsApp to send and receive money in
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World reaches 400,000 virus deaths
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities yesterday, a day after the Government of Brazil broke with standard public health protocols by ceasing to publish updates of the number of deaths and infections in the hard-hit South
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MIANO: KenGen plans for new power projects still on course
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An open letter from a Black teen: ‘Do better
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I Can't Breathe ! Local residents join national rally in a call to end police brutality toward African Americans
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