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Central African Republic minister says Becker passport fake

Tucson 23 Jun 2018

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Central African Republic's foreign minister says a reported diplomatic passport for Boris Becker appears to be a fake and the prosecutor general will investigate ... ....

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Black communities mentally scarred when cops kill unarmed African-Americans – study

Russia Today 23 Jun 2018

Fatal shootings of African-Americans by police have negatively impacted the mental health of their communities, says a new study that comes amid nationwide outrage over the death of yet another black teen ... ....

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MVSU professor named to board of foundation

Greenwood Commonwealth 23 Jun 2018

An assistant professor who has been at Valley for three years, Dugo said he hopes to get his students involved in the work of the foundation ... “What drives that is the high demographic proportion of African Americans. And the Delta seems to cluster large proportions of these cancer cases, predominantly among African Americans.” ... “The Hamer Foundation seeks to target the Delta, especially African Americans ... ....

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Tunisia told to forget about England defeat ahead of Belgium clash

Arabnews 23 Jun 2018

Tunisia will not make life easy for Belgium as they seek to provide a bright spot in a poor World Cup for African sides, with Egypt and Morocco already out ... They are yet to lose to African opposition at a World Cup, while Tunisia have never beaten a European side at a finals ... danger for his team in the north Africans’ opening 2-1 defeat to England....

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Immigration plays a key role in economic growth, Kashkari says

The Times & Democrat 23 Jun 2018

The American economy can only grow by adding more people to the workforce or getting more productivity out of existing workers, Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said in a roundtable event at the African Development Center in Minneapolis ... In his discussion at the African Development Center, Kashkari said the U.S....

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Inside the Hip-Hop World of 'Luke Cage' Season 2

Rollingstone 23 Jun 2018

"Everything begins with the music," says Coker ... Related ... Because when you talk about the blues, you are talking about slavery, from the standpoint that the blues comes from a stolen African legacy. Amiri Baraka in Blues People says the blues is the moment when the African became an African American – the "African" is the rhythm, but the "American" is the interpretation of that experience ... Yeah ... ....

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Arrests In Brevard County: June 22, 2018 – Suspects Presumed Innocent Until Proven Guilty

Space Coast Daily 23 Jun 2018

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Snoop Dogg, Ledisi, Marsha Ambrosius, Sly Pyper, Tye Tribbett to Perform and John Legend, Tyra ...

Watertown Public Opinion 23 Jun 2018

VIA, VIA.B), is the nation's leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience ... BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions ... The “BET Awards” franchise remains as the #1 program in cable TV history among African-Americans, and it is BET's #1 telecast every year....

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Donald Trump is big because Republicans are small

Portsmouth Herald 23 Jun 2018

June 21 — To the Editor.Where do we go from here? The president of the United States reads the National Enquirer and takes it more seriously than the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. His idea of a great American is Roseanne Barr. When he wants to make African Americans feel good, he shows up with Don King. His necktie is longer than his list of accomplishments and he plays more golf than Brooks Koepka ... ....

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What do people in CAR make of envoy Boris Becker?

BBC News 23 Jun 2018

The former tennis champion says his Central African Republic passport is genuine, but officials say it's fake ... ....

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Jeanette Epps doesn't know why NASA booted her from International Space Station flight

Chron 23 Jun 2018

But she thinks it was a decision made by someone at NASA, not their Russian partners, she told reporter Megan Gannon on Friday at the Tech Open Air Festival ... Recommended Video . ... NASA faces calls for reinstatement of first African American on International Space Station crew ... She would have been the 15th African-American astronaut to fly in space, according to the space agency, and the first black astronaut to live on the space station....

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San Jose quilt exhibit focuses on firearms, other polarizing issues

The Mercury News 23 Jun 2018

Editor’s note. The annual Mosaic Journalism Workshop for Bay Area high school students is a two-week intensive course in journalism ... The white police officers’ arms wrap around the black victim, strangling him ... I don’t know what else to do ... One of Knauer’s quilts in the museum displays a precise map of Charleston, South Carolina, around the Emanuel African Methodist Church where Dylann Roof killed nine African Americans in 2015 ... ....

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What's the story? Another historical marker goes up this weekend

The Bradford Era 23 Jun 2018

A historical marker that will be dedicated this weekend in Sussex County focuses on the founding of a 140-year-old church. It may be the first of several as historic preservationists examine downstate Delaware's African-American heritage. Saint George AME Church was established before 1880 on Pilottown Road in Lewes. The church relocated to Park Avenue in 1933 ... +2. St ... +4 ... .......

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