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VIDEO: Doctor Says, ‘Negative Tests Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Have Coronavirus’

NNPA NEWSWIRE — In an exclusive live stream interview with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) broadcast over Facebook, Dr.…

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Commits Millions to Speed Treatment, Research and Development

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “If we want to make the world safe from outbreaks… particularly for those most vulnerable, then we…

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HUD Says Deregulation, Not Affordable Housing, Needed to Solve Homelessness

WASHINGTON INFORMER — For more than a decade, economists, lawmakers and others have heralded the nation’s economy. Often citing how unemployment…

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Mayor Eric Garcetti and Nickerson Gardens Residents in Watts Celebrates Being Awarded $3.7 Million Jobs Plus Initiative Grant

LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) has been awarded a $3.7 million grant…

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Bowser Carries on Obama ‘Keeper’ Initiative

WASHINGTON INFORMER — The Obama administration has become a part of history but its signature social initiative, “My Brother’s Keeper,” has…

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Sewerage and Water Board’s Ghassan Korban Proposes ‘Stormwater Fee’ to Pay for Complete Overhaul of Drainage System

NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — The Executive Director of the Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB), Ghassan Korban believes it’s…

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Big Win in Sacramento for Anti Rent-Gouging and Eviction Protections

OAKLAND POST — After years of escalating and brutal displacement driving millions of Californians into poverty or homelessness, today, the…

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Welch-Backed Teacher Minimum Wage Increase Now Law

CHICAGO DEFENDER — According to a 2018 study by the Illinois State Board of Education, in over 500 of Illinois’ 898…

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Momentum to abolish the death penalty picks up among conservatives

LOUISIANA WEEKLY — A gathering of anti-death penalty activists this month in New Orleans was to kick-start a movement to…

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US House hears testimony on voter discrimination

LOUISIANA WEEKLY — Since the Democrats took control of the U.S. House last November, their efforts to restore the Voting…

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