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Things To Keep In Mind When Your Family Resists Your Personal Growth

When you decide to do the difficult work required for personal growth, you might expect those around you to just support, encourage, and understand you – maybe even praise you for it. But, you might be surprised that you don’t always get the reaction you’d hoped for.

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Do Not Stand Silently

As I shared with Cone Health’s 12,000 employees on Friday, we cannot be silent while, across our country and here at home, people continue to be targeted and endangered based on their skin

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Juneteenth, Not July 4th: Ways to Celebrate it this Year

I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the Year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.-Frederick Douglass

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Africa: Pandemic Poses Double Challenges for African Pastoralists

Researchers fear the virus will hit the most vulnerable African communities — the pastoralists, particularly those in Kenya, as officials have extended bans on travel in and out of Nairobi until June

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Civil War Widows' Pension Digitization Project at the National Archives

The National Archives holds 1.28 million case files of pension applications from family members of deceased Civil War Union soldiers. This Inside the Vaults video short follows a team of more than sixty volunteers, led by National Archives staff, which is digitizing the files and placing them

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Do not be selfish — Practice social distancing

The WHO (World Health Organization) recently stated that even with the antibodies, a previously infected individual is not guaranteed protection from COVID-19 as would have been

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Abducted in Kenya, freed in Somali: Italian flies home after 18-months

Silvia Romano lowered her mask briefly to display a broad smile after she stepped off an Italian government plane at Rome-Ciampino International

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Jill Scott Joins ‘Def Poetry Jam’ Show Supporting COVID-19 Relief

While many arts organizations are solely focused on staying afloat in a rough philanthropic climate, Newark Symphony Hall is galvanizing support for those on the frontline of the pandemic and responding to community needs by donating food and health

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Angola: COVID-19 - Cassenda Residents Sigh With Relief

Luanda — Luanda's Cassenda neighbourhood residents have breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday, after the authorities decided to lift the sanitary lockdown they were in for lingering 16

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How Your Actions May Be Unintentionally Racist

In the aftermath of the presidential election of 2016, many people have experienced relationship blowouts with friends, family, romantic partners, and colleagues over accusations of racism. Many of those who voted for Donald Trump have found themselves accused of being racist, as well as

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Missy Elliott is a multiple Grammy Award winning musician who is also known for her keen business acumen. She was born on July 1, 1971 in Portsmouth, Virginia as Melissa Arnette Elliott. She had a very difficult childhood; her family was extremely poor, and her father Ronnie regularly abused her

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COVID-19 forces cultural shift in West Africa weddings

Omoh, a realtor, and Mamza, a microbiologist, had set the date for April 25, with a big-budget ceremony that was to include at least 500 guests, who were to be transported to the wedding by

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Dire conditions at the Diamond Hospital isolation facility

Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle in the COVID-19 Daily Update of May 14 described the conditions at the quarantine and isolation

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Amatore, Michele (1826?-1883)

As a six-year-old boy named Quetto, Michele Amatorewitnessed his village of Commi in the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudandecimated by Egyptian soldiers and their leaders who profited from the slavetrade. The oldest of four children, hisfather was a village chief named Bolingia; his mother was

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Take travel online: Five ideas for a virtual family adventure

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Eid al-Fitr: One of the happiest times for Muslims will be a somber affair, just like the month that preceded it | The Atlanta Voice

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The Nation Remembers George Floyd

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America Must Be Held Accountable for the Original Sin of Slavery

The current and ever ongoing issue of police violence is now compounded by the COVID-19 virus which we know disproportionately impacts Black

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Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926 – May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor. He ran unsuccessfully for office in both the Illinois state legislature and the U.S. Congress. Brown wrote numerous songs (only 125 have been published), 12

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Opinion: The Novel Coronavirus and its Impact on Children | Post News Group

There are growing fears that COVID-19 is now linked to a syndrome in children who may be vulnerable to the virus and can become infected with minor irritants such as a rash, to more serious health issues such as cardiac

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African American Family History Step by Step

Few areas of American genealogy research pose as much of a challenge as the search for African American families. The vast majority of African Americans are descendants of the 400,000 black Africans brought to North America to serve as slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. Since slaves had no

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Bryan Adams student headed to Texas A&M after overcoming homelessness to finish in top 15 of her class

DALLAS — Undeterred by a crises that led her to homelessness, Angelina Solis will finish in the top 15 of her graduating class at Bryan Adams High School and attend Texas A&M University on scholarships next

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Rwanda: Tributes Pour in for Fallen Minister Ahead of Burial

Louise Mushikiwabo, Secretary-General of Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and former senate president, Bernard Makuza, are among several officials who have paid tribute to former Minister Laurent Nkusi, who passed away on Monday, May

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Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba on bossing up with season 2 of 'LA's Finest'

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Aleisha Salmon, a grade 12 student at Meadowbrook High, told the Jamaica Observer that since the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) forced the physical closure of schools, she has been worried and fearful as she is not certain what will obtain with the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations

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Surviving COVID-19’s Cultural Clash | Afro

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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week | The Atlanta Voice

In reality, the House bill would give $100 billion to local organizations, such as community health centers or nonprofits, to help with testing and contact tracing by funding door-to-door outreach, the purchase of testing supplies and the hiring and training of people to run mobile testing

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Meditation & daily naps, one entrepreneur's tips for remote working in the UAE

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Haiti’s football boss suspended by FIFA over sexual abuse claims

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Burkina Faso must probe death of terror detainees - rights group

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Algerians find smartphones are a lockdown essential

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