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Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson, speaking at the funeral for a black Louisiana man killed by police, says there were three sites of crucifixion last week. Jackson spoke Friday to a crowd of a few thousand assembled at Southern University to remember 37-year-old Alton Sterling. |
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Now more than ever, the Rev. Edlen Cowley is determined to turn the conflict between police and black protesters into a "clarion call for action." "I was that dad who for a few moments experienced the horror of not knowing if his son was okay," said Cowley, senior pastor at Fellowship United Methodist Church in Trophy Club. |
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Galán, a Cuban immigrant who had moved to New Jersey when she was just four years old, had submitted a tongue-in-cheek article to Seventeen magazine, criticizing all-girls high schools for not allowing skirts or boys. The magazine loved the article, she said, and even invited the 15-year-old to become one of the magazine's youngest guest editors. |
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Image Credit: YouTube/Hingham Community Access and Media. Hingham, MA 170 years after the founding of Hingham Congregational Church, the house of worship on Main Street is getting a facelift. The church recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the multi-million dollar renovation. |
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Republican Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who was named Friday as Donald Trump’s running mate, has people guessing about his religious convictions. (Michael Conroy/Associated Press)
Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick, Mike Pence, no longer talks about why he has called himself an “evangelical.... |
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– Pastor Usani Usani Uguru is the minister of Niger Delta. – The minister from the South-south geopolitical zone spoke extensively on the issue of the Niger Delta region in an interview he had with journalists. – Uguru also stated what he knew about the menace caused by the Niger Delta Avengers in the region. |
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Routt County authorities on Friday identified the 3-year-old boy who fatally shot himself on Thursday morning and also identified his father, a Steamboat Springs police officer. Gavin Michael Styles turned 3 years old in May, investigators say. His father, Michael Richard Styles, is a patrol officer for the Steamboat Springs Police Department. |
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They are the latest in a spate of local initiatives that have sought to respond to shootings, by or of police, in various ways: the NAACP held a town hall meeting to address black concerns Tuesday, the Elks Lodge in Palm Coast held a candlelight vigil Thursday evening for the Dallas officers gunned.... |
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By LAMECH JOHNSON. Tribune Staff Reporter.
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. A JUDGE heard on Friday that the young victims of molestation by their grandfather, a retired policeman, have been scarred by the abuse. Senior Justice Stephen Isaacs had ordered a probation report to be produced for the.... |
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Government critics staged a massive stay-away in Zimbabwe's largest cities on July 6. Streets in the capital Harare were deserted, with central business district shops closed. The international media has described the protest as a "spontaneous social media movement", featured twitter posts from.... |
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Nigerian Controversial singer and writer, Etcetera, has in a new article slammed Vice President, Prof. (Pastor) Yemi Osinbanjo, and the President Buhari-led administration, owing to the present economic state. His article (in caps) below: HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT NIGERIANS LOSE ALL OF THEIR SENSES.... |
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– Pastor Usani Usani Uguru is the minister of Niger Delta. – The minister from the South-south geopolitical zone spoke extensively on the issue of the Niger Delta region in an interview he had with journalists. – Uguru also stated what he knew about the menace caused by the Niger Delta Avengers in the region. |
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Unconfirmed reports suggest charismatic #ThisFlag Pastor Evan Mawarire has fled Zimbabwe after a failed abduction on Thursday and has already arranged to claim asylum in the United States. "He is already in South Africa as we speak and headed to the United States where he is expected to be.... |
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Air Canada has been ordered to fix hundreds of baggage handling trucks at airports across the country following the death of an airline employee in Toronto this spring. Baggage handler Ian Henrey Pervez, 24, was killed April 22 at Pearson Airport when the enclosed truck he was driving flipped over and ejected him onto the tarmac. |
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The lead spokesman of #ThisFlag in Zimbabwe, Evan Mawarire, was released on Wednesday after he had been arrested on Tuesday on charges of treason. The 39-year old Harare-based pastor started the social movement after spontaneously posting a video of himself expressing his frustration with the.... |
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Kwasuka loko... wangena u-BB... dilika bantwana... sangena Gazi on a Saturday after a one week absence and we are in full spirits because phela each time we have to put this column together with different juicy stories coming from different crew members it becomes a beehive of activity. It’s like monkeys descending on an unguarded maize field. |
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People who are about to offend you often prefix their hogwash with, “Don’t take this personally; it’s not personal” Of course it’s personal because all offences are. What Hlaudi Motsoeneng is doing as the Chief Operations Officer of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is highly.... |
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Lincoln Elementary school will have a new look this fall. Serverie along with hundreds of volunteers and businesses are teaming up to help beautify the school despite the districts financial constraints. funding for the project came from grants and donations from local businesses to help with the en devour. |
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A weekly one hour program, airing on Channel 7, that's dedicated to covering the issues and interests of the African-American community in the New York tri-state area. THIS WEEK on Here and Now: July 17, 2016 We're turning our attention to the growing crisis in America. |
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Joanne Vasco, 80, an office assistant and civil rights activist who graduated from college and earned a law degree in her 40s, beginning a second act as a criminal-defense lawyer in Washington, died May 16 at her home in Hyattsville, Md. The cause was congestive heart failure and acute kidney failure, said a son, Michael Salter. |
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Updated 17 minutes ago As members of Hope Lutheran Church in Cranberry said farewell to one familiar face, they welcomed another into a leadership role, at least for the time being. The Rev. Christopher Suehr has left Hope Lutheran after three years to pursue his doctoral studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. |
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When you’re faced with heartache, author and former pastor Rob Bell suggests asking yourself one admittedly weird question. Have you gotten in the habit of breathing? , Bell says, is not what it means on the surface, but what lies deeper within its linguistic connection to the past. |
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At a moment when racial divisions in America have reached a critical stage, Denver will keep one of its most passionate fighters for social justice. The Rev. Timothy Tyler, pastor of the historic Shorter Community AME Church in Denver, lost his campaign last week to become bishop of the national African Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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“We’re not trying to convince you we matter. We know we matter,” Sharpton said in a stirring speech. “We have an inferior judicial system that does not protect all of it’s citizens equally.” “We’re not anti-police, we’re anti-wrong,” he added. “This man should not be here at his own funeral.” Rev. |
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Government critics staged a massive stay-away in Zimbabwe's largest cities on July 6. Streets in the capital Harare were deserted, with central business district shops closed. The international media has described the protest as a "spontaneous social media movement", featured twitter posts from.... |
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