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Bernice King to Begin a New Ministry; Denies That Her Decision to Leave New Birth Had Anything to Do With Eddie Long’s Sex Scandal

• June 1, 2011 • Comments Off

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Run-Walk Sponsored by the Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover Foundation a Great Community Success

• October 7, 2010 • Comments Off

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Is James Jones a Hero? Outraged Father of Daughter With Cerebral Palsy Confronts the Bullies on the School Bus

• September 20, 2010 • 7 Comments

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State Battles Are Defining the Shifting Abortion Landscape June 28, 2022
An absolute abortion ban that Texas wrote before Roe v. Wade is on hold while a long-ago ban in Wisconsin reaches the courts. A previously blocked six-week ban in Tennessee has taken effect.
‘Ghost Flights’? The Facts Behind Transporting Migrant Children June 24, 2022
Government flights carrying undocumented children from the border to federally licensed shelters around the country are being criticized by conservative politicians in an election year.
Indictments in Flint Water Crisis Are Invalid, Michigan Supreme Court Finds June 28, 2022
The cases against former Gov. Rick Snyder and other top officials were thrown into doubt by the ruling.
Have You Taken Covid Treatments? June 21, 2022
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Yellowstone Flooding Is a Sign of What’s to Come for National Parks June 16, 2022
Record rainfall and mudslides forced closures just as tourism season ramped up. Virtually none of America’s national parks are untouched by extreme weather and climate change.
A Decade After DACA, a New Generation of Undocumented Students Rises June 16, 2022
A vast majority of undocumented teenagers are graduating high school this year without protection from deportation and the ability to legally work.
Photos of Flooding Damage in Yellowstone June 16, 2022
Flooding and mudslides from recent storms have collapsed bridges and washed away roads in the national park.
Southern Baptists, Battling Divisions, Elect Bart Barber as President June 15, 2022
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination, a bellwether for conservative Christianity, chose a rural Texas pastor and approved actions to address its sex abuse crisis.

The Guardian, UK

Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought June 28, 2022
Fossils from South African cave are 3.4 to 3.6m years old and walked the Earth at same time as east African relativesThe fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their east African relatives like the famous “Lucy”, according to new research […]
Cop15: lack of political leadership leaves crucial nature summit ‘in peril’, warn NGOs June 28, 2022
Nairobi biodiversity talks end in stalemate, prompting open letter to world leaders calling for action before Montreal conferenceUN biodiversity negotiations have reached crisis point due to a lack of engagement from governments, leading NGOs have warned, three years after experts revealed that Earth’s life-support systems are collapsing.Last week, countries […]
V&A to display its first African fashion exhibition June 28, 2022
Galleries will showcase designers who are often overlooked, in an effort to acknowledge colonial histories within the museumThe Victoria and Albert Museum will open its first African fashion exhibition this week, more than 170 years after it was founded.Featuring designers who have worked with names including Beyoncé and architect David Adjaye, Africa Fashio […]
Moroccan authorities accused of trying to cover up Melilla deaths June 27, 2022
Concern at apparent plan to bury victims without investigating cause of death or trying to identify themThere are growing calls for an investigation into the deaths of up to 37 people who died trying to scale a fence to enter Melilla, Spain’s enclave in north Africa.About 2,000 people stormed the heavily fortified border between the Moroccan region of Nador […]
Calls for investigation over deaths in Moroccan-Spanish border crossing June 26, 2022
NGOs say toll could be as high as 37 after hundreds of people break into border control area in attempt to reach Melilla enclaveHuman rights campaigners in Spain and Morocco have called for investigations to be launched in both countries after a mass attempt to scale the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla left at least 23 people […]
22 people found dead in South African nightclub June 26, 2022
Police in southern city of East London launch investigation and officials rule out stampede Police forensic teams in South Africa are investigating the deaths of 22 young people at a nightclub and bar in the southern coastal town of East London.Specialists have yet to establish the cause of the tragedy, which occurred during end of school year celebrations b […]
Jubilation and hope as convention puts final stamp on Chile’s new draft constitution June 29, 2022
Draft shifts country away from Pinochet-era document, enshrining cultural rights and laying out path of autonomy for Indigenous peoplesThe process of drafting Chile’s new constitution has come to an abrupt, jubilant end as the final votes were held quickly by the 154-member, gender-equal constitutional convention.Huddling between the colonnades at the former […]
War on drugs prolonged Colombia’s decades-long civil war, landmark report finds June 28, 2022
Truth commission’s report, touted as a chance to heal after half a century of bloodshed, called for a ‘substantial change in drug policy’ The punitive, prohibitionist war on drugs helped prolong Colombia’s disastrous civil war, the country’s truth commission has found, in a landmark report published on Tuesday as part of an effort to heal the raw wounds left […]

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Jan 6 hearings: Ex-aide paints devastating picture of Trump June 29, 2022
Enraged president tried to grab the steering wheel to direct his limousine to the Capitol, ex-aide says.
Turkey supports Finland and Sweden Nato bid June 28, 2022
Ankara had previously opposed to the Nordic countries' bids to join the alliance.
Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years over sex trafficking June 28, 2022
Ghislaine Maxwell told victims she had helped Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse she was sorry for their pain.
R. Kelly: US singer faces decades in jail at sex trafficking sentencing June 29, 2022
The disgraced pop star will be sentenced on Wednesday after being found guilty of sex trafficking.
Rappler: Philippines orders shutdown of Maria Ressa's critical news site June 29, 2022
The decision to strip Rappler of its licence comes in the last days of Rodrigo Duterte's presidency.
Udaipur: India state on alert after Prophet Muhammad row beheading June 29, 2022
Two Muslim men in Rajasthan killed a Hindu tailor who backed controversial remarks about the Prophet Muhammad.
Outcry in Egypt as iconic Nile houseboats are destroyed June 28, 2022
The last homes are being removed as part of what officials say is a plan to beautify the waterfront.
Monkeypox: White House outlines vaccine plan June 29, 2022
The pool of people advised to get jabbed in the US now includes anyone with a suspected exposure.