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NEW YORK (AP) - John Lewis, Julian Bond and so many other leaders of the civil rights movement are dead; at 78, Jesse Jackson clearly is not the lion he once was. But the Rev. Al Sharpton — once dismissed by some as a fraud, a jester — is still standing. This week, he will lead a commemoration of the Rev. |
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MANILA, Philippines — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Philippines surged past 200,000 Wednesday. The country has the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia. The Department of Health reported a daily tally of 5,277 recent infections, the majority in Manila. |
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Instead of flying down to the memorial in Atlanta, Sharpton had remained in New York; he had work to do. Preaching at the funeral of a year-old boy who was shot in the stomach at a Brooklyn cookout -- a boy not much younger than his first and only grandson -- Sharpton demanded gun control, an issue close to Lewis' heart. |
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NEW YORK (AP) John Lewis, Julian Bond and so many other leaders of the civil rights movement are dead; at 78, Jesse Jackson clearly is not the lion he once was. But the Rev. Al Sharpton -- once dismissed by some as a fraud, a jester -- is still standing. This week, he will lead a commemoration of the Rev. |
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- The news anchor was spotted hanging out with Asmali, a renowned PR practitioner, somewhere in Nairobi.
- Most of his fans were pleased to see him and used the opportunity to beg him to get back on TV. - TUKO.co.ke had earlier reported that Hussein resigned from his top job at Citizen TV in October 2019. |
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NEW YORK The Rev. Al Sharpton sat quietly in his office in late July, watching the final funeral service for Rep. John Lewis on a wall-mounted television. Instead of flying down to the memorial in Atlanta, Sharpton had remained in New York; he had work to do. |
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But Sharpton knows he will also encounter the ghosts of another era on the steps of the Lincoln Monument, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed that he had a dream. Sharpton said he had always felt a kinship with people like Lewis, who had been the last surviving speaker from the original.... |
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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING: LONDON — Scotland has recorded the first coronavirus deaths in more than a month. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says two people have died in Scotland after testing positive for COVID-19. Sturgeon says it’s the first coronavirus deaths reported in Scottish since July 16. |
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NEW YORK - The Rev. Al Sharpton sat quietly in his office in late July, watching the final funeral service for Rep. John Lewis on a wall-mounted television. Instead of flying down to the memorial in Atlanta, Sharpton had remained in New York; he had work to do. |
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MANILA, Philippines — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Philippines surged past 200,000 Wednesday. The country has the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia. The Department of Health reported a daily tally of 5,277 recent infections, the majority in Manila. |
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PARIS, Aug 26, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: – More than 820,000 dead – The pandemic has killed at least 820,180 people worldwide since surfacing in China late last year, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Wednesday. |
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