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Val Demings to run for Senate against Rubio
Florida Rep. Val Demings is planning to run for the U.S. Senate, rather than governor, providing Democrats with a big-name candidate to take on Republican Sen. Marco Rubio next year. […]
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Elizabeth City State Find Deputies’ Shooting Of Andrew Brown ‘Justified’
An investigation by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation into the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. by Pasquotank County Sheriff’s deputies last month found that the shooting was justified. […]
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Pandemic Exposed ‘Undeniable Effects of Racism: Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the “undeniable effects of racism” have led to health disparities during the coronavirus pandemic that particularly harm people of color. […]
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NAACP, FAMU Environment Justice Panel Gives Me Dejavu All Over Again
By Audrey Peterman When I received the invitation from Westside Gazette publisher Bobby Henry to cover the Panel Conversation highlighting the Science of Climate Change, its Impacts, Local Actions and Solution, and the Importance […]
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Funding Financial Literacy
For decades, there has been a history of talented athletes earning insurmountable salaries overnight, then ultimately finding themselves struggling financially. […]
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CDC: Airborne COVID-19 Virus Can Be Inhaled More Than Six Feet from Infected Individuals
CDC: Airborne COVID-19 Virus Can Be Inhaled More Than Six Feet from Infected Individuals […]
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DOJ Seeks to Clean up Police Departments Around the Country
“But if the U.S. Justice Department develops evidence that a local or state entity like a police department is failing to abide by the U.S. Constitution or other federal laws, it can go to federal court and seek an order of some kind requiring the entity to cease its illegal activity and perhaps implement some measures to prevent its recurrence. ”Caitlin Kizielewicz, a spokesperson for the Crime and Justice Research Alliance, told NNPA Newswire. […]
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Cyberattack on U.S. pipeline is linked to criminal gang
In this case, Colonial Pipeline said the ransomware attack Friday affected some of its information technology systems and that the company moved “proactively” to take certain systems offline, halting pipeline operations. In an earlier statement, it said it was “taking steps to understand and resolve this issue” with an eye toward returning to normal operations. […]
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‘Ill-informed and cruel’: Growing number of GOP-led states move to end Covid unemployment benefits
“It has become clear to me that we cannot have a full economic recovery until we get the thousands of available jobs in our state filled,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, said in a statement Monday, adding that the benefit will end next month. […]
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The Supreme Court Can Protect Black Lives By Ending Qualified Immunity
The three officers responsible for the murder of Breonna Taylor are not the first to walk free after killing an unarmed Black person, and unfortunately, especially if things continue as they are, they will not be the last. Things continuing as they are, includes the decision to only charge one Louisville police officer for the destruction of property, which sends the message that Black lives do not matter to law enforcement agencies. […]