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Trump Compares Police Who Use Force to Golfers Who ‘Choke’

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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

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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 […]

Business

Black Female Entrepreneur Who Took a Leap of Faith Despite the Odds Finds Success in Jacksonville

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Small Business Spotlight – Jharman Lightner – President – Harvest Mental Health Services Due to the rapid increase in levels of education, increase of doing business in professional services, and shear necessity; Black-owned businesses have […]

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Edible Pot Products Get State Go-Ahead

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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

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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

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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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Steve Stoute Tells Black People Not to Vote for Kanye West

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By A.R. Shaw – Steve Stoute understands the importance of the 2020 election. To drive the significance of the Black vote, Stoute, a serial entrepreneur and music executive, recently sat down with NBA star Kevin Durant […]

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The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know

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Story by Calvin Baker – When her first novels were published, in the mid-1970s, Gayl Jones’s talent was hailed by writers from James Baldwin to John Updike. Then she disappeared. In the winter of 1975, a quiet […]

Entertainment

Danai Gurira Mourns Death of Black Panther ‘Brother’ Chadwick Boseman

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By Karen Mizoguchi  – Danai Gurira shared the Zulu phrase, “Lala Ngoxolo Kumkani,” which translates to: “Sleep in peace, O king” Danai Gurira is honoring her late friend and Black Panther costar Chadwick Boseman for his real-life […]

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Jacob Blake’s Sister at March on Washington: ‘Black America, I hold you Accountable’

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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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