Workday admits to Black diversity problem, pledges to improve

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

Black Lives Matter, City leaders march for justice and voting rights

by Andrea WatsonATLANTA, GA — The same day that celebrities and civil rights activists gathered to remember George Floyd — the African American man who died last week in police custody — elected officials joined Atlanta protesters and several groups for a peaceful Black Lives Matter

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Holness lauds contributions of Robinson, Gallimore in tribute

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has lauded the contribution of late Labour and Social Security Minister Shahine Robinson to politics and national

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

COMMENTARY: The Black Church Faces an Atypical Crisis

During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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Source: The New Journal and Guide

Hospital Capacity in Dallas | Dallas Weekly

Hospital Capacity in Dallas

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Source: Dallas Weekly

County to allow gyms, museums to reopen June 11

LOS ANGELES — Businesses including gyms, museums, zoos, film studios and spectator-free sports arenas will be allowed to open in Los Angeles County beginning June 12, even as health officials warned again that the spread of COVID-19 is increasing in the

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Tech acquired for COVID-19 pandemic useful elsewhere, says Carby

WITH the Caribbean region being menaced by potential twin disasters, COVID-19 and predictions of an active hurricane season, head of the Disaster Risk Reduction Centre at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Dr Barbara Carby says technology acquired for managing the pandemic should be

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‘This is terrible’...Mother of Maurice Gordon demanding justice

Those were the words of Raquel Barrett, the mother of 28-year-old Maurice Gordon, the unarmed Jamaican man who was gunned down by a New Jersey state trooper following a traffic stop along the Garden State Parkway near Bass River, in Burlington, on the morning of May

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

dream hampton On Our Fascination With Cops, Defunding The Police & Why Patriarchy Is Her Biggest Fear

Recently, Color of Change (COC) published a report, Normalizing Injustice: The Dangerous Misrepresentations that Define Television’s Scripted Crime Genre about how the crime genre glamorizes policing to the detriment of the entire country, but Black people, the victim of police

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Source: MadameNoire

No new COVID case, two more recoveries

The Health Ministry is reporting that there were no new COVID cases

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

No Policy, No Peace: It's Time For Police Policy Reform

“Our analysis finds that each additional use of force policy was associated with a 15 percent reduction in killings for the average police

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

Sybil Francis hailed as social work stalwart

Late aged-care and social work advocate Sybil Francis has been described as a gentle powerhouse and a source of inspiration to hundreds of people whose lives she

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

KSAMC to clean over 100 drains

Detailing the programme, Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams said that the exercise would be undertaken in phases, targeting 51 critical coastal drains in communities across 13

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Newswire: Trump Administration officials to Black America: ‘Coronavirus Pandemic is your fault’

According to a top official in President Donald Trump’s administration, the poor health of African Americans is the primary reason for the nation’s devastatingly high coronavirus

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

‘Bad mind!’ - St Ann’s Bay mayor blasts critics of COVID spend, Porsche charging station

ST ANN’S Bay Mayor Michael Belnavis has labelled as “bad-mind” detractors who have mounted a withering campaign against him since news broke of the reported $46m COVID-19 expenditure on sanitising the town of Ocho Rios and the $80,000 charging port installed at the municipal office to charge his

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Netflix Adds Black Lives Matter Collection As Its Own Genre – Free Press of Jacksonville

By Dessi Gomez- Netflix added a Black Lives Matter section to its genre tab on Wednesday, responding to viewers’ interest in titles related to racial injustice, discrimination and systemic

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

‘Twenty Dollars?’ George Floyd’s Brother Asks Congress ‘What A Black Man’s Life Is Worth’

Source: C-SPAN

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TPDCo begins COVID-19 health and safety sensitisation among hotels

Executive Director of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), Dr Andrew Spencer, says sensitisation sessions for the COVID-19 Health and Safety Protocols that will be implemented for the reopening of the tourism sector have

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Covid-19 patient goes missing at isolation facility in Nelson Mandela Bay

Hospital operator, the Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA), has reported the incident to the police, while the M Secure company suspended the

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Corporate Hands | Lifespan gifts Portland police with water, masks

Inspector Henry Forbes of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Portland Division, holds a case of water which was donated by

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Amazon features children's shirt with image of cop kneeling on George Floyd's neck

A T-shirt branded with the image of ex-cop Derek Chauvin with his knee on the neck of George Floyd was for a short time up for sale on Amazon, but has since been pulled

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Harris County passes package of 11 criminal justice reform proposals

Harris County leaders passed a package of 11 criminal justice reform measures, just hours after attending George

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Illinois Lottery Launches Annual Red Ribbon Cash Instant Ticket | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The Illinois Lottery is bringing back its annual Red Ribbon Cash instant ticket, which has raised more than $8.6 million for HIV/AIDS prevention, education, and treatment in Illinois since

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

People Are Shocked These Brands Aren’t Actually Black-Owned

Source: Jason Carter Rinaldi / Getty

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COVID-19: Stigma, inequality, and mental health impact

Of these, Zimbabwe had 314 confirmed cases and four deaths

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Black clergy voices opposition to mall sale

BALDWIN HILLS — A local coalition representing 300 black clergy members has joined the fight to block the sale of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, one of the biggest malls in Los

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‘He didn't deserve to die over $20’ – George Floyd’s brother to Congress

The younger brother of George Floyd, Philonise, addressed Congress on Wednesday advocating for police reform, a day after his family, who were joined by friends and sympathizers, laid him to rest in their hometown of

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Two more Atlanta officers fired after students pulled from car | Dallas Weekly

ATLANTA (AP), June 10, 2020 — Two more Atlanta police officers were fired Wednesday over an incident in which two college students were pulled from a car in traffic during a large protest against police brutality, authorities

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Covered California Providing Health Care Coverage During COVID-19 Pandemic to Affected Californians

Los Angeles News Observer via Covered California News

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

This one change to bankruptcy law could help small businesses | Afro

The law creates a Subchapter V of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which essentially makes it easier for small business owners to retain ownership of their business in the event of seeking bankruptcy

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority-0

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