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Camon to speak at Juneteenth festivities
MOULTRIE — “Keeping the Struggle Alive” is this year’s theme for Moultrie’s Third Annual Juneteenth Fest, which will ... Read more
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Work in historic cemetery will restore abolitionists’ graves
SALEM, Mass. — In a far corner of Howard Street Cemetery, in a little bump-out area off the ... Read more
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: To fix a problem, we must first acknowledge it
I’m not advocating violence! I simply understand where Mr. Cornelius Ponder is coming from. Read more
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Juneteenth: A day of joy and pain – and now national action
In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that the last enslaved ... Read more
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Grady commissioner implores county’s whites to speak up on injustice
CAIRO — Grady County commissioner LaFaye Copeland said she and other African Americans in the community believe white ... Read more
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Biden says he was too ‘cavalier’ about black Trump backers
ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Biden said he "should not have been so cavalier" in comments earlier Friday in ... Read more
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In New Orleans, friends respond as virus claims a Zulu king
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If he had died in a normal time, Larry Arthur Hammond would have had ... Read more
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Racial toll of virus grows even starker as more data emerges
As a clearer picture emerges of COVID-19's decidedly deadly toll on black Americans, leaders are demanding a reckoning ... Read more
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Trump courts black voters, but opposition remains deep
DETROIT (AP) — President Donald Trump took African American guests to his State of the Union speech, ran ... Read more
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Maternal mortality rates high in rural Ga., researchers say
ATLANTA — Both white and African American women in rural parts of Georgia have significantly higher rates of maternal morality ... Read more