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Ghana: Outrage and fear growing over anti-gay bill proposing 10-year jail sentences
Lawmakers in Ghana are seeking to make it a crime to identify as LGBTQ or advocate for their rights. Laws in the West African country already criminalize gay sex by forbidding “unnatural carnal knowledge”. But the country now wants to do more in what would be its first major step in criminalizing sexual minorities and…
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This 73-year-old woman just finished a 40-day hunger strike for slavery reparations
A 73-year-old Chicago woman on Saturday completed a 40-day hunger strike she embarked on to...
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After years of protests, Italian TV station finally bans the wearing of Blackface on its screens
Italy’s national broadcasting company, RAI, has finally banned the wearing of blackface on...
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Backlash as Nancy Pelosi thanks George Floyd for ‘sacrificing’ his life for justice
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday received a barrage of criticism on social media following...
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The CROWN Act: Connecticut set to become latest state to ban natural hair discrimination
Connecticut is the latest state to pass The CROWN Act that would make natural hair discrimination illegal. The state’s Senate voted 33-0 to pass The CROWN Act, an acronym for Creating a Respectful...
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Olympian Tommie Smith, who took a stand in 1968 and was punished, graces cover of Wheaties cereal box
Tommie Smith, one of the Olympic Gold medalists who raised a black-gloved fist at the 1968 summer Olympics in Mexico City, in what has become known as the “Black Power” salute, is being honored on...
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Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
The news of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement’s nomination for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize came just in time as we mark the beginning of Black History Month. The BLM movement, which uses its platform...
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Biden will push forward Obama-era plan to put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill after Trump halted it
The Biden-Harris Administration is revisiting plans to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, a move proposed by his fellow democrat and former president Barack Obama in 2016. The initial release...
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says her $4.2B donation spree was inspired by a Chicago teen
Over the past few months, the third wealthiest woman in the world, MacKenzie Scott, has donated a staggering $4.2 billion of her fortune to various entities across the country including some HBCUs. In...
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Outspoken ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s announces Colin Kaepernick’s activism inspired flavor
Ben and Jerry’s have been very vocal about the Black Lives Matter Movement and defunding the police and now they are joining forces with free-agent quarterback and activist Colin Kaepernick with his...
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Colorado just got its first Black-owned gun club amid calls for racial justice
The stigma associated with Black Americans wielding guns discourages many Blacks from owning a gun or joining a gun club. 1770 Armory and Gun Club, Colorado’s first Black-owned gun club, is here...
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‘I don’t seek to be respectable’ – Activist goes viral after lashing out at Kansas City police during meeting
A video of Keiajah “KJ” Brooks, a Kansas-based activist, has gone viral on social media after she was filmed at a monthly meeting on Tuesday chastising the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners...
