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The liberal justices dissented as the Supreme Court ruled against extending Wisconsin’s deadline to count mailed-in ballots received after Election Day. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan slammed the court’s decision not to extend the deadline to rece...
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NASHVILLE, TN — The Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County General Session Court Judge Lynda Jones has been elected president of the Tennessee General Sessions Judges Conference (TGSJC) for 2020 – 2021. The TGSJC is a statewide organization consistin...
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Standing out with a style of its own, the new 2020 Toyota Avalon Limited comes fully packaged with dynamic looks and features in both the exterior and the interior. This new Limited is heavily geared more toward convenience and luxury for 2020. It’s...
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By Emmanuel Freeman NASHVILLE, TN (TSU News Service) — Calling it a symbol of strength and a representation of its Big Blue pride, Tennessee State University has unveiled a tiger statue on the main campus to coincide with this year’s virtual Homecomi...
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By Clint Confehr EDGEHILL, TN — Voters want good jobs, health care, and pensions, an AFL-CIO Executive Council member told demonstrators Oct. 22 near Belmont University before the presidential debate. “We are in the heart of a red state,” said Vonda...
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By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — A woman mayor, an African American vice mayor, the police review board headed by a Black woman; the list of women change agents in Knoxville continues to grow. The change continues not only at the government level̷...
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MURFREESBORO, TN — MTSU’s Department of Art and Design is welcoming quite a topic of conversation to the Todd Art Gallery which opened Saturday, Oct. 24: dual exhibits with work created by artists of all ages, curated by a pair of Murfreesboro artist...
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By McKay Coppins The Atlantic One day in 2015, Donald Trump beckoned Michael Cohen, his longtime confidant and personal attorney, into his office. Trump was brandishing a printout of an article about an Atlanta-based megachurch pastor trying to raise...
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By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — The essential workers who harvest our food and stock grocery store shelves are helping us survive the pandemic. We would starve without them. They are largely underpaid and uninsured. Many frontline workers and their fa...
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Prime Minister Allen Chastanet says Saint Lucia has suffered massive unemployment due to the closure of the tourism sector amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. He made the disclosure in an opening statement to a press briefing Wednesday on the IMF-Worl...
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Deflated, hopeless, discouraged.. Those are the feelings I felt on November 9, 2016. I, like many other Americans, woke up to the news that Donald Trump would be the 45th President of the United States. I thought I was dreaming (or having a horrible...
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MIAMI, FL – This weekend, October 31 and November 1, 2020, the Equal Ground Education Fund, which is the preeminent Black led non-partisan, non-profit working on building Black political power in Florida, is bringing their socially-distanced “Souls t...
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Written by NNPA THE GREEN COUNTY DEMOCRAT — Reportedly, through various written and verbal communications, the Green County Commission had informed Sheriff Jonathan Benison that his additional employees, supported by bingo funds, would be laid-off un...
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NATIONWIDE — Sergeant Harold Preston, a Houston police officer, was sadly shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call at an apartment complex on the south side of the city. The 65-year old police officer was only two weeks away from...
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(Source BlackNews.com): CAMPBELL, FL — Tracey Brown, a social studies teacher in Florida, is under investigation after being captured on video saying that she “has much right as anybody else to dislike Blacks” during an online class with her stu...
