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Black attorneys respond to president’s executive order calling for elimination of cashless bail

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-26-2025

By D. Kevin McNeirSpecial to the AFROkmcneir@afro.com

On Monday, August 25, the 47th president of the United States signed two executive orders to end cashless bail

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SA’s neighbour declares public health emergency as medicines run out

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-26-2025

Botswana declared a public health emergency on Monday after hospitals ran out of essential medicines due to depleted government coffers and steep cuts in US

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First mpox case of 2025 in Senegal sparks urgent response

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-26-2025

Senegal has confirmed its first mpox case of the year in a foreign national who arrived on 19 August 2025. 

The patient’s stable condition is being

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News in a minute | Medicine shortage triggers health emergency [video]

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-26-2025

Botswana declared a public health emergency on Monday after hospitals ran out of essential medicines due to depleted government coffers and steep cuts in US

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Mississippi Declares Public Health Emergency Over Infant Death Rates – Black Babies in the U.S. are Being Killed Off by Vaccines

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-26-2025

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
The State of Mississippi has declared a “public health emergency” after recent data show that the infant mortality rate in

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China expands global trade as US grip weakens

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-25-2025

by HAOYU ZHANG / SAVIOUS KWINIKABEIJING, (CAJ News) – CHINA has firmly established itself as one of the world’s dominant trading powers, ranking among the

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Congolese diaspora condemns Kenya’s Goma nomination

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-25-2025

from JEAN KASSONGO in Kinshasa, DRCDRC BureauKINSHASA, (CAJ News) – THE Forum of Congolese Intellectuals Abroad (FICE) has condemned Kenyan President William Ruto’s recent nomination

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Marching forward: Commemorating the March on Washington on Wall Street

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-25-2025

Dr. Benjamin Chavis, president and CEO of National Newspaper Publishers Association, will help lead churches and the Black Press in a march on Wall Street

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‘3 by 30’ aims to create 3 million Black homeowners—but barriers persist

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-25-2025

By DaQuan LawrenceAFRO International WriterDLawrence@afro.com

Black homebuyers are 1.7 times more likely to be denied a mortgage than all other racial groups in the nation, according

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New Orleans clergy say 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, Black communities still waiting for promises to be fulfilled

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-25-2025

By D. Kevin McNeirSpecial to the AFROkmcneir@afro.com

NEW ORLEANS, LA – APRIL 15, 2025: Willie Taylor mows an overgrown lot in the Lower Ninth Ward, in

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