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SWAC Postpones Fall Sports Until Spring - Black News Channel
By David Johnson/ BNC Digital Reporter Birmingham, ALA (BNC) - The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) announced Monday that they will not be moving forward with fall sports for the 2020 academic school year due to growing concerns of COVID-19. The fall sports impacted include men’s and
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Stay-at-home decree brings unwanted weight gain to some -
LOS ANGELES — It starts off innocently enough. At first, there are a couple of added pounds, then five and eventually double digits. Since the stay-at-home guidelines went into effect in an effort to curb COVID-19, some people have seen a noticeable weight gain due to a disruption in their daily
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Chicago violence sparks war of words between Trump, mayor : TheGrio
CHICAGO (AP) — The war of words between Chicago’s mayor and President Donald Trump escalated after a weekend when 12... View Article The post Chicago violence sparks war of words between Trump, mayor appeared first on TheGrio.
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Trump, Congress square off over virus aid as crisis worsens - Black News Channel
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump acknowledged a 'big flareup' of COVID-19 cases, but divisions between the White House and Senate Republicans and differences with Democrats posed fresh challenges for a new federal aid package with the
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Politics; Four Faces, One Nation. - ThyBlackMan
Four Faces, One Nation - America has maintained a more strict racial categorization than even apartheid-era South Africa.  We’re all familiar with the “one drop” rule that would classify a person as black, or octoroon, if even one of their great-grandparents were black.  A study back in 1958
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Kim Foxx’s office now accepts police complaints | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Activists fight for more change, accountability By Patrick Forrest With increased calls for police reform, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is announcing her office will now allow residents to submit claims against law enforcement officers of criminal misconduct and upload photo and video
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Black Women Who Defaced BLM Mural Vandalized Two More, Exposed As Right-Wing Agitators
Bevelyn Beatty and a group of her supporters vandalized two more murals in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant on Saturday evening after she was released, according to her Facebook page.
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Gillum gives personal update from his time in rehab - Black News Channel
After months of silence, Andrew Gillum, spoke about his struggle with alcoholism and gave a personal update on his health via social media. In March, the former Florida governor candidate said he would be entering a rehabilitation facility after having fallen into a depressive
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The Electoral College’s Anti-Black Bias, Explained
The Electoral College remains a system born from white supremacy that will likely continue to operate in a racially discriminatory fashion.
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Taxpayers Have Been Sponsoring Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam for Decades. - ThyBlackMan
Louis Farrakhan is known for spreading vicious lies about Jewish people, referring to Jewish people as "wicked Jews," accusing them of perpetrating a fictitious "black African Holocaust" and of "sucking our blood." In one of his interviews, Farrakhan claimed that "Hitler was a very great
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Mueller defends Russia probe, says Stone remains a felon - Dallas Post Tribune
By ERIC TUCKER FILE - In this Wednesday, July 24, 2019, file photo, former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Mueller sharply defended his investigation into ties
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Fair Housing Groups Slam Trump's Suburban Racial Rhetoric | Dallas Weekly
Washington (AP) - President Donald Trump's pledge to roll back an Obama-era regulation designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs is drawing harsh criticism from fair housing advocates, who label it a blatant attempt to play racial politics and appeal to white voters in the final weeks
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Remembering John Lewis - Milwaukee Community Journal
Joint statement from Alderman Cavalier Johnson, Alderman Michael J. Murphy, Alderwoman Marina Dimitrijevic, Alderman Scott Spiker, Alderman Mark A. Borkowski, Alderwoman JoCasta Zamarripa, Alderman Nik Kovac, Alderman José G. Pérez, Alderman Robert J. Bauman, and Alderman Khalif J. Rainey   July
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James Harden Says He Wasn't Trying to Make a Political Statement While Wearing Thin Blue Line Face Mask
Houston Rockets guard James Harden said he merely wanted to cover his face for COVID-19 protection, not make a statement on the hot button issue […]
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Joe Biden Leads In Polls Largely Due To His Diverse Group Of Staffers
Recent polls show Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ahead of Donald Trump as the country moves closer to the 2020 elections in November. One of the reasons for this is…
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Will there be Major League Baseball history for umpiring in 2020? - ThyBlackMan
Last year, there were six Black umpires on Major League Baseball’s 76-member full-time staff.  Kerwin Danley, joined the MLB staff in 1998, and is now getting the opportunity to be the first African American umpire crew chief in Major League Baseball history.
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Color Us Connected: Young generation ready to lead - African American News Today - EIN News
This column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week, Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Alabama, and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, take a look at the younger generation.By Guy Trammell Jr.The elder Lewis Adams
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Philando Castile’s Girlfriend Settles Defamation Suit Against Former Cop Who Said She’d Blow Her Previous Settlement Money on Drugs: 'I Hope One Day You Will Forgive Me'
Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of the late Philando Castile, settled a lawsuit she filed against a former sheriff’s deputy in 2017. The lawsuit was settled […]
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Montserrat veteran hoping to tackle top tier next term - Voice Online
LYLE TAYLOR'S dream of playing in top-flight football could become a reality, despite droves of... The post Montserrat veteran hoping to tackle top tier next term appeared first on Voice Online.
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IN MEMORIAM: John Lewis, an American Hero and Moral Leader Alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., Dies at 80 | Afro
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Correspondent Born in 1940, John Lewis, the son of a sharecropper, helped to lead America out of an era of racism. Through his activism and bravery, Lewis carried the moral authority that few other leaders in U.S. history could claim.  On July 17th he died in
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Maverick Citizen Op-Ed: Police Brutality in South Africa and the USA: A Rift in Remedies, Representation and Responsibility - African American News Today - EIN News
At the height of a frigid Cape Town winter, an innocent black man was forcefully expelled from his home by law enforcement that was blatantly apathetic towards their victim’s well-being and dignity. 
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Trump contradicts his press secretary on how often he is tested: 'I don't know about more than one' time a day | The Atlanta Voice
President Donald Trump said he doesn't know of a time he's taken more than one coronavirus test in a day, directly contradicting his press secretary in the first question of his press briefing Tuesday. 'I don't know about more than one,' Trump responded to a reporter who asked why he was tested
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Arizona Police Shoot Black Man in Front of Fiancee and Kids (Video)
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John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80
Images of his beating at Selma shocked the nation and led to swift passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He was later called the conscience of the Congress.
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Federal agents, local streets: A 'red flag' in Oregon - Black News Channel
By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal law enforcement officers' actions at protests in Oregon's largest city, done without local authorities' consent, are raising the prospect of a constitutional crisis — one that could escalate as weeks of demonstrations find renewed
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Former Florida Congressman Allen West unseats James Dickey to become Texas GOP chairman | Dallas Weekly
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Georgia State Sen. Nikema Williams Picked to Replace Lewis on November Ballot - Free Press of Jacksonville
  (CNN) State Sen. Nikema Williams has been chosen to replace the late Rep. John Lewis on the ballot in November, paving the way for the first black woman elected to lead the Georgia Democratic Party [...]
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C. T. Vivian’s Place in History is Secure! - The Atlanta Inquirer
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After almost four years in prison, Keeda Haynes is running to be TN's first black woman in Congress - Face2Face Africa
In life, sometimes one must experience certain hardships to be a better advocate for those in similar situations. That is the story of Keeda Haynes who spent almost four years in prison for a crime she says she did not commit, to becoming a public defender who is now running for Congress in
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