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Today in History — Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020
On Sept. 2, 1963, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.
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Drug Suspect Offered July Plea Deal if He would Admit Breonna Taylor Part of ‘Organized Crime Syndicate’
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Jamarcus Glover, the focus of a series of Louisville police raids, including one in which officers shot and killed Breonna Taylor, was offered a plea bargain last month if he would […]
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Trump Compares Police Who Use Force to Golfers Who ‘Choke’
BY BRETT SAMUELS – on Monday compared police officers using excessive force inappropriately to a golfer missing a short putt, saying sometimes “they choke.” Trump, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, argued that police are […]
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Google Honors Black Cartoonist and Activist Jackie Ormes with New Doodle
Dalvin Brown – Google’s search website has been updated in honor of Jackie Ormes, a Black cartoonist and activist who challenged the disparaging portrayals of Black characters in media in the 1940s. If you go […]
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Edible Pot Products Get State Go-Ahead
August 27, 2020 Dara Kam – TALLAHASSEE — Animal crackers and gummy bears are off the table, but Florida medical marijuana operators finally will be allowed to manufacture and sell THC-infused cookies, cakes and candies, after state […]
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Black Americans Worry Postal Changes Could Disrupt History Of Secure Jobs
By Jeff Brady – Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s cost-cutting measures have raised concerns about mail-in voting. But critics worry they may also set the stage for privatizing the U.S. Postal Service, something the Trump administration […]
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Judge Backs Teacher Who Spanked Son
NSF Staff – An administrative law judge said the Miami-Dade County School Board should reinstate a teacher who was suspended after spanking his misbehaving son in another teacher’s classroom. The school board in November suspended and […]
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Jacob Blake’s Sister at March on Washington: ‘Black America, I hold you Accountable’
By Jason Hanna and Harmeet Kaur, CNN CNN)Fifty-seven years to the day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, relatives of African Americans killed or injured in recent police encounters took to […]
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Two Black Owned Banks Just Merged to Form a $1 Billion Lender, the Largest Black Owned Bank in the U.S.
By ShoppeBlack – Two Black owned banks, City First in Washington, DC and Broadway Financial Corporation in Los Angeles, CA announced today that they have entered into a transformational Merger of Equals agreement to create the largest Black owned […]
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Chairwoman Maxine Waters Sounds Alarm on Coming Wave of Evictions
NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Lauren Victoria Burke – “We can’t wait any longer we got to move. The CARES Act was an important step towards providing relief, but more help is needed. We knew, for example, […]