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Center for Responsible Lending calls for end to overdraft fees during COVID-19

By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) issued a report on June 3 calling on Congress to adopt legislation prohibiting banks

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The bitter history behind the highways occupied by protesters

By Olivia Paschal Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — From the 1950s into the 1970s, numerous highways were built through U.S. cities that profoundly

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Panel exams police violence as elections approach
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer A webinar viewing and resulting discussion of a potent new sermon about the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, an African American in Georgia who was shot and killed ...
Obama’s popularity continues to rise amid Trump’s rhetoric
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — With unrestrained vitriol and the stunning lack of leadership emanating from the White House on an almost daily basis, the ever-rising popularity of ...
Beyond protesting: How do we stop savage inequities?
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer As worldwide protests over the murder of George Floyd by indicted fired cops continue, civil rights leaders and Black-run legal organizations, Black elected officials and social justice ...
Women work longer, sleep less due to COVID-19
By Sunita Sohrabji Contributing Writer (Ethnic Media Services) — Women around the world are facing a shadow crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as their workloads for both paid and unpaid labor increase ...
Black and Blue don’t match
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer NNPA NEWSWIRE — African Americans hadn’t stopped grieving over the assassination of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia when a video surfaced out of Minnesota, showing a police ...
New prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery case refutes conflict of interest complaint
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer NNPA NEWSWIRE — Discovering the hard-cold truth of why unarmed African Americans are being regularly gunned down by law enforcement officers and private citizen vigilantes — ...
Where children hide when gunfire is all too common
By Cara Anthony Contributing Writer (Special from khn.org) — Champale Greene-Anderson keeps the volume up on her television when she watches 5-year-old granddaughter Amor Robinson while the girl’s mom is at work.
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Tear gas flies as Minneapolis rioters protest death of George Floyd in police custody
// // // MINNEAPOLIS—Protests turned violent on Tuesday as anti-police activists smashed windows and vandalized police cars in response to the death of an African American man at the hands ...

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