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Walmart, Kroger To Require Face Masks In All Stores - Black Enterprise
Retailers including Walmart, Kroger, and others will require customers to wear a mask or face covering to shop in their stores.
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Virginia Trooper Being Investigated for Dragging Black Man From his Car By His Neck While Saying on Video 'Watch the Show' - Black Enterprise
Virginia State Police opened up a criminal investigation into the 2019 incident where a trooper is seen, on video, removing a Black driver from his vehicle
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Georgia Gov Sues to End Cities' Defiance on Mask Rules - Black News Channel
By JEFF AMY and BEN NADLER Associated Press/BNC Contributor ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is suing Atlanta to block the city from enforcing its mandate to wear a mask in public and other rules related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kemp and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, in a suit filed
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Rep. John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80 - DefenderNetwork.com
John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’ passing late Friday
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Black Lives Matter billboard placed next to Confederate flag - Black News Channel
By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press/BNC Contributor  A Black Lives Matter sign now fills a billboard next to a big Confederate flag that greets people coming into a small town outside Raleigh, thrilling some community organizers and angering the property owner. Organizers of a fundraising campaign
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D.M.V. Natives Document ‘City on the Hill’, San Francisco | Afro
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com While D.M.V. natives Xavier Underwood and Adam Fleishman have seen their fair share of homelessness and gentrification, another major city captured the documentarians’ attention due to its disproportionate wealth and housing gap that would even make
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YG “Swag,” NBA YoungBoy “Sticks With Me” & More | Daily Visuals 7.16.20
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Black Teen Sent to Juvenile Detention for Missing Schoolwork, Judge Deemed Her a Threat to Her Community
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE Janette Robinson-Flint was one of six enthusiastic and determined women who co-founded Black Women for Wellness because they were concerned about the health and well-being of Black babies. That was back in the 1990s when the original focus was to team up with the Birthing
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Black People Suffer From Dementia | Afro
By Dr. Lucille Ridgill Special to the AFRO Alzheimer’s disease (the most common type of dementia) is the sixth leading cause of death among White people, but the fourth leading cause of death for Black people like me. The Black population age 65+ is projected to more than double in size in the next
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Another South African makes it big in the US - TechCentral
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Open Letter From Local Newspapers to the D.C. Council | Afro
Dear Councilmember: Representatives from local newspapers and businesses have met with many Councilmembers this past week to speak out against the proposed taxes on advertising and personal information. We’d like to summarize why the proposed tax will further endanger local news. Local news media
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Restaurants: #JobsSaveLives begs government to save industry
New social media movement #JobsSaveLives pushes back at stringent lockdown rules which are crushing restaurants.
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Mo’Nique Discrimination Lawsuit Against Netflix Moving Forward
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Investigators list potential crimes in Indiana assault case - Black News Channel
By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America/ BNC Contributor  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State investigators identified six potential crimes Thursday in an incident report concerning the reported assault on a Black man at a southern Indiana lake. Vauhxx Booker, a local civil rights activist and
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What Black Men Must Do Now. - ThyBlackMan
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Race riot alert as Trump accepts presidential nomination on 60th anniversary of ‘Ax Handle Saturday’ - Face2Face Africa
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HISD opening 12 strategically located curbside summer meals sites on Monday - DefenderNetwork.com
When the Houston Independent School District reopens its curbside summer meals program on Monday, July 20, it will do so with 12 sites strategically located throughout the city. Seven of those locations will be operated in partnership with the Houston Food Bank, allowing families to pick up several
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PRESS ROOM: Wells Fargo Names Kristy Fercho to Lead Home Lending | BlackPressUSA
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Black WNBA players: Never Scared. - ThyBlackMan
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Fulton County and Cobb County schools to go online only | The Atlanta Voice
Two of Georgia’s largest school districts announced Thursday that they will not allow students to return to classrooms when schools resume, but instead offer instruction online only because of the coronavirus. School officials in Fulton and Cobb counties had initially given parents the option of
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Brazil's coronavirus curve may hold the key to a global vaccine - The New York Beacon
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Water Is Wet: Donald Trump’s Niece Says She Heard President Use N-Word, Anti-Semitic Slurs
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Kansas congressman forced to leave committees after charges - Black News Channel
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Philadelphia Sued For Military-Force Police Violence During Protests
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Assa Traoré quest for justice helps fuel Black rights fight in France - Black News Channel
By ARNO PEDRAM and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press IVRY-SUR-SEINE, France (AP) — Assa Traoré has been fighting for justice ever since her brother Adama died in the custody of French police on his 24th birthday four years ago. And she's determined to keep fighting until 'the end,' she says: until
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