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South African golfing great Gary Player is to receive the US Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump.
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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The Astron Energy company has assured the surrounding communities of its Milnerton site in Cape Town that there is \"no danger\" to the area.
Carson told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, June 7, \"I believe you're going to be hearing from the President this week on this topic in some detail.
The country has been in a state of unrest for the past three weeks with multiple cities across the nation experiencing peaceful protests and violent clashes with police.
The President has yet to engage the country in a dialogue that would ease the tensions brought about after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.
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Even so, Carson believes that the President will set aside some time this week to address Floyd’s killing, the daily protests in response to it, law enforcement’s reaction to the protests and what the federal government will do in response.
Then Trump use of the words, “thugs” when referring to protestors in Minneapolis, and not to mention the President’s own well-documented racially insensitive past, could lead many to believe that whatever is to come will do more harm than good.
However, YouTube live-streamed their star-studded graduation “Dear Class of 2020,” filled with heartfelt speeches from The Obama’s, Beyoncé, along with performances by Lizzo, Megan Thee Stallion and Chloe x Halle.
The musical duo, Chloe and Halle Bailey delivered an uplifting performance and beautiful speech to the graduates around the world.
\"Class of 2020, we're so proud of y'all.
That's just how you do it,\" Chloe said before leading into \"Do It,\" the latest single off their upcoming sophomore album, Ungodly Hour.
The look was co-designed and pulled together by Beyoncé’s long-time stylist, Zerina Akers.
John Legend and outspoken wife Chrissy Teigen are that couple.
Legend reportedly is making the best of the shelter-in-place edict amid the coronavirus pandemic and beams that he has “really enjoyed” being at home with the family as they have him.
Legend says he has regular “dance parties” with his children where they test out some of his brand new material, and admits bonding with them over the last few months has been “so good for their development”.
It’s so good for their development with the age they’re at,” Legend continued.
The 41-year-old Legend confesses he’s adjusting to the new normal pretty well and says he’s grateful to be in a position to weather the pandemic and changes to the daily routine pretty painlessly.
A world-renowned sports athlete, professional and currently a TV show host, Deion Sanders was never meant to be mediocre at anything he set his eyes on. One of very few athletes to have ever professionally played football as well as baseball at the national level, Sanders’ marvelous athletic ability and agility led him to live out an extremely fulfilling career. Born on August 9, 1967, in Fort Myers, Florida, U.S.A, Sanders won several major championships in a MLB career that spanned well over 9 years, and an NFL career close to 14 years. Fully demonstrative of Sanders’ immense dedication and popularity in the field, he is also the only athlete in history to have scored a home run and a touchdown within a 7-day period.
In high school and college, Sanders was known to be outstanding in football, baseball and basketball. In Florida State University, Sanders preferred playing in the outfield position in the baseball team, and was particularly known for base stealing, coming close to breaking the university record by compiling 27 bases in 1987. After college, he was signed by the New York Yankees, a very privileged draft that not many baseball players are lucky to be granted. As far as Sanders’ dedication to football was concerned, he was a three-time All American cornerback, known specifically for his unexpected touchdowns. At the same time, he also broke Fred Biletnikoff’s interception return record by returning an interception by one yard. After serving short terms with the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees, Sanders joined the Atlanta Braves and spent the 1992 season with a batting average of .304, stealing 26 bases and topped the triple numbers with 14 in 97 games. In the 1992 World Series, Sanders batted an average of batted .533 with 4 runs, 8 hits, 2 doubles, all in just 4 games. In the early 2000s, Sanders served a brief stint with the Cincinnati Reds, batting an average of .173 in 29 games, after which he diverted most of his attention to Football.
The only player to ever play in the Super Bowl and
It took a while for R&B singer Monica to recover after her divorce from ex-husband Shannon Brown.
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Monica opened up about finalizing her divorce with Brown.
Since she was the one who filed for divorce, she had to appear in court; Brown did not.
The 39-year-old singer filed for divorce from the former Los Angeles Lakers star in March 2019 after eight years of marriage.
Why the former couple decided to split is still not known, but Monica did suggest they’d grown apart during the last season of “Friends and Family Hustle.”
Music Supervisor Rob Lowry (Twitter: @robertlowry) was recently inspired by Han Martin‘s (Twitter: @hnicolemartin) “Resources for White Family” post to create his own version of a letter and resources to White friends and family and tweet it to anyone who wanted them.
Good Black News requested and was given permission by Lowry to share his document in its entirety, as especially now Black people are being asked for resources from White colleagues, friends and family, and already have way too much to handle.
These unprecedented times are amplified in communities who directly suffer from racism, police brutality, and oppression on a day to day basis.
We have the ability to take action, invest in anti-racism, support minority communities, condemn racism and oppression and create a better country – for everyone.
Here are some BLACK OWNED BOOK STORES across the country that could use your help
*Along with these charities, please google local organizations as well as victims’ families GoFundMe accounts that you can donate to and have a huge impact on their lives*
The Ida B. Wells Society – news trade organization dedicated to increasing and retaining reporters and editors of color in the field of investigative reporting
Minnesota Freedom Fund – bail funds for those incarcerated in Minnesota
Black Lives Matter – mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes
Reclaim The Block – organizes Minneapolis community and city council members to move money from the police department into other areas of the city’s budget
Black Visions Collective – Black, queer, and trans-led Minnesota nonprofit organizes campaigns to cut police budgets, invest in community-driven safety strategies, train activists, and celebrate Black joy
Campaign Zero – calls on lawmakers on every level to end police violence by implementing comprehensive research-based policy solutions
Know Your Rights Camp – aims to advance Black and Brown youth education and self-empowerment through events and campaigns
Black Youth Project 100 – dedicated to advancing the Black community’s economic, social, political, and educational freedoms, through a Black queer feminist lens
– A list of things to think on, action to take, books to read, movies to watch, ways to create meaningful change within your own community:
What White People Can Do For Racial Justice
– Another doc full of books, podcasts, videos, groups to follow on social media, etc.
Press Release - Bukavu, DRC/Amsterdam - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has made the difficult decision to end most of our support to healthcare provision in Kimbi and Baraka in Fizi territory, South Kivu province, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The decision comes after the withdrawal of the majority of MSF staff from Fizi territory in July, following several violent incidents against our teams in 2020.
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza, 55, has died as result of a heart attack, government said on Tuesday.
ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Biden declared he “should not have been so cavalier” on Friday when he told a prominent black radio host that African Americans who back President Donald Trump “ain’t black.”
The rebukes spanned from allies of Trump’s reelection campaign — anxious to go on offense after weeks of defending the president’s response to the coronavirus pandemic — to some black activists, who warned that Biden still must to court black votes, even if African Americans do overwhelmingly oppose the president.
But with black voters already opposed to Trump, Biden is also considering candidates such as Klobuchar.
“I thought to myself, as an African American, been black for 54 years, I was struck by the condescension and the arrogance in his comments,” Scott said in a conference call quickly arranged by the Trump campaign.
Black voters helped resurrect Biden’s campaign in this year’s primaries with a second place finish in the Nevada caucuses and a resounding win in the South Carolina primary after he’d started with embarrassing finishes in overwhelmingly white Iowa and New Hampshire.
The art work was supposed to be in alignment with the Black Lives Matter movement that has surged throughout the country since the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day.
The email request, sent on behalf of Microsoft’s advertising firm McCann Erickson, asks Martin if she could make a June 7 deadline “while the protests are still relevant.”
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“Apparently the folks at @microsoft and McCann Erickson feel that that the #blacklivesmatternMovement and protests will not be relevant after this weekend,” Martin tweeted in response.
RELATED: Trump Says It’s ‘A Great Day For George Floyd’ And Says Police Should ‘Do Better’
Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela tweeted an apology:
“Shantell, on behalf of Microsoft, I want to first apologize for the insensitive language used in our letter.
No word on what Microsoft or McCann Erickson plans to do to address the individual who sent the email or going forward to ensure that this type of \"error\" doesn't happen again.
Nene Leakes and her husband Gregg Leakes were standing on the front lines in support of the Black Lives Matter movement this past weekend.
On Sunday, June 7, the original housewife of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” posted a thread of photos on Instagram that depicted her and her husband peacefully protesting.
Without a mask, Gregg Leakes stood at the edge of a sidewalk in one striking image.
Gregg Leakes, a real estate investor, was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in the summer of 2018.
At the beginning of June, the “Glee” star expressed in an Instagram post that looting was destroying the Peach State and urged fans to peacefully protest.
