Commentary
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Jul- 2019 -22 July
2020 Hyundai Palisade Entire Presentation
John Simmons discussed design, the name origin, competitors, ride quality, suspensions, Blue Link, NVH, pricing and much much more. Here you will learn all you need to know about the…
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22 July
Driving While Black: Police Continue to Profile, Stop and Search African American Drivers
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “What’s particularly damning about this data is that police were more likely to search Black people than white people yet found contraband in only 41 percent of…
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21 July
LeMoyne-Owen College looking for new president as college board ousts Dr. Andrea Miller
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The first woman appointed president of the then 153-year-old college, the city’s only historically black college/university (HBCU), Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller, a graduate of the college, learned…
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21 July
Unrest over Brandon Webber shooting leaves many questions, few answers
NNPA NEWSWIRE — It’s exposure to violence like this incident that Tennessee State Rep. Antonio Parkinson (D-Memphis) attributed to his poor, and sometimes violent decision making as a youth. It’s…
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21 July
IN MEMORIAM: Community honors Sadie Roberts-Joseph
NNPA NEWSWIRE — BATON ROUGE (The Drum/NNPA)—For more than three decades, Sadie Roberts-Joseph was an exceptional force of civic and cultural life in Baton Rouge. Often called an activist, matriarch,…
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21 July
COMMENTARY: Is U.S. marching steadily to war with Iran?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A war, Mr. Trump may be estimating, could “rescue” him politically, and inject more money into the Pentagon. The U.S. “war strategy” was revealed by Reps. Elissa…
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21 July
Will Packer Drama, ‘Ambitions’ Brings Star Power to OWN
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Entertainment juggernaut Will Packer, the man behind hit films like Girls Trip, Straight Outta Compton. Little, Stomp the Yard, Ride Along, “Ready to Love,” and “The Atlanta…
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21 July
If You’re Poor in America, Debtor’s Prison is Real
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The people who are jailed or threatened with jail often are the most vulnerable Americans living paycheck to paycheck, one emergency away from financial catastrophe, according to…
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20 July
COMMENTARY: The Black Man Who Saved Memphis: Robert R. Church
NNPA NEWSWIRE — An editorial in the Evening Scimitar in 1899 put Church’s legacy in this context: “It may be said of Robert R. Church that his word is as…
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19 July
CFPB turns its back on fair lending enforcement and reporting
NNPA NEWSWIRE — More than 50 years ago, this nation enacted legal guarantees that fair housing would be available to all Americans. Despite this federal assurance, however, a disturbing and…
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