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White House Official Ja’Ron Smith: The Left is ‘Playing Politics’ on Police Reform

July 14, 2020 admin 0
By Julia Musto | Fox News – While there is definitely “common ground” in the debate over police reform, the left is “playing politics” instead of problem-solving, Deputy Assistant to the President Ja’Ron Smith asserted Tuesday. In an interview on “America’s […]
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Legal Experts Review Black Minnesota Teen’s Life Sentence

July 14, 2020 admin 0
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – “In the end, CIUs often ask the question after reviewing all the evidence, ‘if we had known all of this at the time we charged the defendant, would we have arrested him […]
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We Need Leaders to Affirm That Black Lives Matter, Not Exploit the Phrase to Divide Us

July 13, 2020 admin 0
By Kevin Cokley – Racial disparities suggest that Black lives really have not mattered. Refusal to even say the words disregards the pain experienced by Black people. President Donald Trump recently called Black Lives Matter […]
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Farrakhan is Betraying Today’s Black Slaves

July 13, 2020 admin 0
ByCharles Jacobs, JNS –  Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is now the most popular and dangerous anti-Semite in America. Neo-Nazis and white supremacists are surely a problem for Jews, but polite society rejects them. […]
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Fact Check: Yes, Historians Do Teach That First Black Members of Congress Were Republicans

July 9, 2020 admin 0
By Brian Lymon – The claim: Historians do not teach that the first Black members of Congress were Republicans. A viral meme, posted on Instagram, features a well-known lithograph of the first Black members of Congress, with a bold […]
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Young Voters Say They Aren’t Enthusiastic About Joe Biden Presidency

July 8, 2020 admin 0
WASHINGTON – Perry Green doesn’t believe that Joe Biden is listening to what young, Black Americans want right now. Across the country, young people are protesting systemic racism and calling on political leaders to reallocate […]
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Ben Crump Heralded as Black America’s Attorney General

July 7, 2020 admin 0
NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Natalie Jackson, Special to the Houston Forward Times – Most recently, Crump has represented three of the most high-profile cases in America today in his representation of the families of Floyd, […]
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Atlanta Mayor, Family Members Test Positive for COVID-19

July 7, 2020 admin 0
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms tested positive for COVID-19, according to an announcement she posted on Twitter late Monday. “COVID-19 has literally hit home,” the mayor wrote. “I have had NO symptoms and have tested […]
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A Scholar of Black Politics Explains Why There Aren’t National African American Leaders in This Moment

July 6, 2020 admin 0
By Vincent Adejumo – As protests rock the country in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, there is a notable absence in the national public discourse: African American community […]
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Democrats, Biden Look to Accelerate Southern Political Shift

July 6, 2020 admin 0
ATLANTA — By Bill Barrow The Associated Press – From Mississippi retiring its state flag to local governments removing Confederate statues from public spaces, a bipartisan push across the South is chipping away at reminders […]

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