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One suggestion to stop the killing
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In Her Own Words: A Woman's 21-Day Diary of How COVID 19 Nearly Destroyed Her Family ⋆
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Everything To Know About The Mass Poor People’s Assembly And Online March On Washington
Only this protest — The Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington for a Digital Justice Gathering — will be held online, inviting people to log on to the internet and digitally demand justice for low-income and otherwise disenfranchised people in
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Lauren London Is Already Educating Her Sons About How To Deal With Police [VIDEO]
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#Juneteenth: The History Of Juneteenth & The Continued Quest For Freedom
Known as Freedom Day, Liberation Day, and also Emancipation Day, June 19 marks when Union Army forces from the north arrived in Galveston, Texas to finally deliver federal orders that slavery was officially
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Noose hanging in NASCAR driver’s stall
NASCAR has launched an investigation after a noose was found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the only Black driver in the elite Cup Series who just two weeks ago successfully pushed to ban the Confederate flag at its
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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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Seychelles: In a Bid to Protect Children From Harm, Seychelles Bans Corporal Punishment in the Home
In a bid to protect children from violence in the home, Seychelles' National Assembly has passed a law banning corporal
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George M. Johnson's New Memoir Reminds Us That ‘All Boys Aren't Blue’
I didn’t really know much about book genres or categories; I just knew I had this story about this Black queer kid growing
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East Africa: Kenya Wins UN Security Council Seat
Kenya has won the UN Security Council seat after beating Djibouti in second round of voting
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These decisions by the ministry on exams are reckless given our realities
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Africa: Moves Are Afoot in Africa to Keep More Women in Science Careers
Women scientists have a vital part to play in scientific leadership and in contributing to Africa's development and
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Nigeria: Motor Crashes Remain the Leading Cause of Unintentional Injury
Even in a safety conscious country such as the United State of America, failure to wear their seatbelts has let to avoidable deaths and injuries among teens and adults who died were unrestrained as at the time of the
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Dr. Yumkella speaks about Sierra Leone’s judiciary as parliament approves Appeals Court Judges
Democracy was at work in Sierra Leone’s parliament yesterday, when the main opposition APC party, led by  Honourable Chernoh Ramadan Maju Bah voted against two of the eight presidential nominees put forward by president Julius Maada Bio for MPs
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AME Church History Is a Story of Perseverance
The AME Church not only faced the obstacle that all new churches encounter -- lack of funds -- but a second barrier that proved a constant threat: racial
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Jack Cope
Jack Cope , byname of Robert Knox Cope (born June 3, 1913, Mooi River, South Africa—died May 1991, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England), South African writer best known for his short stories and novels about South African
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Getting More Business Opportunities with Proxies
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(1789) An Unknown Free Black Author Describes Slavery In 1789
We don’t know the name of one of the earliest orators against slavery. He was a West Indian who apparently was a former slave fortunate enough to be educated. He was also intimately familiar with slavery and the slave trade in that region. The themes and arguments advanced in this oration will be
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Source: Black Past
(1916) Robert R. Moton, “A Life of Achievement”
Robert Russa Moton is best known as the successor to Booker T. Washington as president of Tuskegee Institute. He assumed the presidency of the institution shortly after Washington’s death in 1915. Moton’s life reflects striking parallels to his predecessor. Like Washington, he was born on
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Female docs run things
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Addressing America's Racism
The tea from the voice of our millennial and Z generations are saying, America must come to grips and realize its inherent
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Kenya wins UN Security Council seat
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Namibia's Strategy to Borrow Over N$21b
"Though the borrowing strategy is to largely fund the funding needs from the domestic market, the 2020/21 financial year's budget deficit is significantly large to be sourced from the domestic market as per the
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Life Can Emerge from the Stench
It negates the love God has for us and the life Jesus demonstrated as He lived a life of revolutionary love and radical community
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This Black Entrepreneur is a Court-Approved Mediator That Helps Settle Disputes Out of Court
She is an online court-approved mediator that helps her clients settle their disputes out of court… without having to leave
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Norbert Rillieux
Safety, efficiency and profitability – these are the major reasons for the success of an invention. As well, an even greater qualification is when the invention revolutionizes an industry and an overwhelming effect on society. Norbert Rillieux can certainly be seen to have achieved all of these
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Gospel music
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Cop claims he wasn't promoted to police chief because he's white
A Missouri cop is suing the St. Louis Police Department and the city, claiming he wasn't promoted to Police Chief because he is
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Kenya: Protesters Rally Outside U.S. Embassy in Nairobi Over George Floyd's Death
Dozens of people gathered outside the US embassy in Nairobi Tuesday to protest over the death of an African-American man in Minneapolis police
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(1838) Sara T. Smith, “Loosening the Bonds of Prejudice”
On May 17, 1838, abolitionist Sara T. Smith addresses the second Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women which was originally scheduled to be held in Pennsylvania Hall.  The meeting however was moved when anti-abolitionist mobs, upon learning of the Convention, burned the hall to the ground.  The
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