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The United States is on a chaotic path with no federal plan against the coronavirus pandemic as it reduces public health funding and ignores the advances of climate change, according to activist scholar Noam Chomsky, considered the founder of modern
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Africa: China, Africa and the World After COVID-19
The Coronavirus crisis has created a welcome opportunity for us to reassess the relationship between China and Africa on several levels - trade, supply chains, excessive borrowing and predatory lending, racism towards
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APNU/AFC have got to stop spreading the false impression that they were cheated
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ODOTE: Police killing should be wake-up call for all
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NABJ Caught with Their Hand in the Proverbial Chinese Cookie Jar.
(ThyBlackMan.com) The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has once again shown their liberal bias and lack of
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COVID-19 and America—the fire this time
America cannot advance democracy around the world when it weaponizes the cause of the current global
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MUSYOKA: It’s now clear the West doesn’t have all answers
As a large consumer of American literature, movies and academic case studies, last week’s protests coupled with the never ending squabbles between the federal government and state governors on the appropriate response to the Covid-19 pandemic threw me for
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Wisconsin’s Next Election Could Be Done by Mail
After the election results were released a week later, Wisconsin waited to see if in-person voting would increase its numbers of positive COVID-19
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Uganda: The Electoral Reforms That Were Never Implemented
The proposed electoral law known as 1+3 required a parliamentary candidate to be elected in four different
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Kenya: Editors Call for Review of Media Laws to Improve Press Freedom
Media guilds in Eastern Africa have called on their respective governments to review and update media laws in advocating for press freedom and sustainability measures amid the ongoing global
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Women’s Group Rips Biden Vetting Klobuchar And Demands A VP Running Mate Of Color
Aimee Allison of She the People, which describes itself as “a national network connecting women of color to transform our democracy,” used no uncertain terms to implore Biden to look elsewhere for his running mate — specifically in the direction of a woman of
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Georgia must remove voting obstacles, protect voters on Tuesday
ATLANTA— All Voting is Local Georgia State Director Aklima Khondoker issued the following statement in response to reports of unnecessary obstacles voters faced on Friday, the last day of early voting in Georgia, including: waits of up to seven hours to cast a ballot, polling place closures, and
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Zanu PF brazen attack on media unfortunate
THE ruling Zanu PF party acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa’s attempts to muzzle the Press from reporting “negatively” about the President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family are unfortunate and a brazen attack on media
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Libya: Has Haftar's 'Ponzi Scheme' Imploded?
Turkey's dramatic military intervention into Libya's civil-cum-proxy war on the side of the Tripoli government has changed the narrative from 'Haftar tightening the noose around Tripoli' to his 'entire Western operation being in disarray,' as one analyst puts
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Malawi: Commonwealth Judges Add Voice of Concern Over Mutharika's Attack On Malawi Judiciary
Commonwealth lawyers, judges and magistrates have added their voice to the chorus of concern that President Peter Mutharika continues to criticise the Judiciary following the nullification of the May 21 2019 presidential election
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What lies in store for Raila, Kalonzo, Moi
With the 2018 truce between President Uhuru Kenyatta and rival Mr Raila Odinga providing a strong political foundation, talks to create a broader unity pact with various parties and leaders
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Obama Encourages Protesters to Take Activism Further
Former President Barack Obama released a statement on Monday, June 1 encouraging protesters of the George Floyd murder to further their activism once they leave the
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Botswana draws virus zones, extreme distancing ends, alcohol banned
The Vice President received donations worth over P964 000, from different organizations and individuals to help government combat Covid-19, government confirmed on May
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Sunday Brew — May 31, 2020
If information which surfaced over last weekend that there could have been manipulation of Leon Bailey to openly criticise the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is true, then it would be most
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Nigeria: 'We Must Keep Asking IBB Why He Annulled June 12'
In this exclusive interview, he speaks on the significance of the June 12, 1993, presidential election and the recognition of the day as Democracy Day by President Muhammadu
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Sierra Leone: Opposition Member Dr Sylvia Blyden Detained Again
Dr Sylvia Blyden, a leading member of the main opposition  All People's Congress (APC) is back in jail in Freetown after her bail was
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Sen. Cory Booker Says He 'Would Sooner Die' Than Let Donald Trump Stay In Office If He Loses The Election
Some voters are expressing real fears that even if Trump loses the Presidential election in November, he will refuse to leave
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City Council Places Oakland Youth Vote Measure on November Ballot | Post News Group
The Oakland City Council voted unanimously at its Tuesday meeting to place an Oakland Youth Vote measure on the November ballot, which would give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in Board of Education
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Murkomen: Why I was ousted
You have been at the heart of government virtually all your political career, enjoying State power and its
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Tunisia: PM Receives CSM Members
Tunis/Tunisia — The independence of the judiciary and the necessary complementarity between the Supreme Judicial Council (CSM) and the Ministry of Justice were the focus of a meeting held Monday at the government palace in Kasbah, between Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh and CSM President Youssef
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ANC and allies to take a stand against racism and police brutality on Black Friday
This will also be used to take a stand against the country's own security forces which have allegedly been responsible for the deaths of citizens during the national
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HBCU Students Organize Thousands for Protest in Jackson – The Mississippi Link
The march was organized by HBCU students Calvert White, of Alcorn State University, Taylor Turnage, of Tougaloo College, Maisie Brown, of North Carolina A&T, and Timothy Young, a recent graduate of Jackson State
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How the U.S. Navy’s First Black Officers Helped Reshape the American Military
Just two years later, thanks to pressure from civil rights leaders and the black press, the Navy told these 16 enlistees — the sons and grandsons of slaves — that they would attempt to integrate the officer corps and prove wrong the prevailing wisdom, which held that their race was incapable of
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Netanyahu lashes out at graft charges
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at a Jerusalem court Sunday for the start of his long-delayed corruption trial, rejecting the "ludicrous" charges against him and declaring he was facing the hearing "with my head held
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We wear the mask
Through the pandemic called racial hate—whose potentially fatal impact is evidenced by the recent deer-hunter style slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, allegedly by three white men while he jogged in a neighborhood in
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