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‘Caste’ Argues Its Most Violent Manifestation Is In Treatment Of Black Americans

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By Hope Wabuket –  To read Isabel Wilkerson is to revel in the pleasure of reading — to relax into the virtuosic performance of thought and form one is about to encounter, safe and secure […]

Lifestyle

Today, Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, Shows Just How Much They Are Undervalued

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By Megan DiTrolio – August 13th, marks Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, the date in 2020 that a Black woman had to work until to make the same amount of money that her white, male […]

Editorials

Is Corporate Support for Black Lives Matter Genuine?

August 18, 2020 admin 0

Miami Times Staff Report – Brands are being questioned about the legitimacy of their activism and platforms. Over the years, Black influencers have worked hard to lend their voices to social justice causes near and […]

National

March on Washington Reconfigured to Comply with Virus Rules

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By Aaron Morrison And Ashraf Khalil WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid widespread protests and unrest over the police killings of Black Americans, a national commemoration of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington is being reconfigured to […]

Sports

NBA Strikes Sponsorship Deal with DoorDash, Will Help Black Businesses

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By Vincent Frank –  August 18, 2020 – It was earlier this month that the NBA and NBPA announced a new foundation to help support black communities through the United States. Under that guise, an initial […]

Entertainment

Hot Off The Press: Sweetie Pie’s Owner Charged with Conspiracy in Alleged Murder for Hire Plot in the Death of his Nephew

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By China Lee | August 18, 2020  – Madison County, Miss. (WLBT) – James Timothy Norman owner of Sweetie Pie’s restaurant has been arrested on federal charges and is currently being held in the Madison County Detention Center. Norman was […]

Health

Column: Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, National Black Physicians Group Addresses Disparities

August 18, 2020 admin 0

As a family physician in Columbus, when someone has chest pain with exertion that might be caused by a blockage of a heart artery, I order a cardiac stress test. The coronavirus pandemic is a […]

Entertainment

2 Men Charged In Long-Unsolved Killing Of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay

August 18, 2020 admin 0

By Andrew Limbong – Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against two men accused of killing Jason Mizell, better known as Jam Master Jay — the DJ for the seminal rap group Run-DMC. Mizell was shot […]

Editorials

OP-ED: No Bridge too Far — Remembering Congressman John Lewis and the Fight Still Ahead

August 17, 2020 admin 0

NNPA NEWSWIRE — It comes to this: Americans are being cut out of the process by other Americans. A great victory, fought for on bloody streets and across bloody bridges, a score settled and signed […]

National

Trump Administration Ramps Up Efforts to Dismantle Post Office

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NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent – “They have withheld that money. They have broken the law,” Congressional Black Caucus Chair Karen Bass told BlackPressUSA during a livestream interview […]

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