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Albert Pike Statue to be Reinstalled in D.C. as Trump Pushes Forward with Racist Monument Restoration Agenda

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

The National Park Service has confirmed it will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike in Washington, D.C., five years after protestors tore

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#BoycottTarget campaign to continue, even with new Target CEO

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

Target stores have been facing a nationwide boycott throughout the first half of 2025. Now those boycotts, led by Black, Latino, and LGBTQ+ organizations upset

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Ben Jealous fired as Sierra Club’s first Black executive director; many say racism at play

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

The Sierra Club board of directors voted unanimously to fire its first Black and overall person of color executive director, Benjamin (Ben) Jealous, after he

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

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

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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Survivors of Katrina find strength, solace through the efforts of extraordinary people

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

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

When the first official public warnings of a tropical depression, then located over the Bahamas, were issued on Aug.

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Embattled Fed Gov. Lisa Cook vows legal fight against 47th president’s bid to oust her

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

By Christopher RugaberAP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook will sue President Donald Trump’s administration to try to prevent him from firing

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France returns King Toera’s skull to Madagascar after 128 years

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

French forces took the remains of King Toera and two other Sakalava people in 1897.

The troops beheaded King Toera during a colonial-era massacre in the

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Ramaphosa joins Zimbabwe agricultural show as guest of honour

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in Harare at the invitation of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Ramaphosa, who touched down on Friday, is attending the official opening

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Tourist pouring BEER down elephant’s trunk sparks outrage

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

Kenyan authorities have launched an investigation after a Spanish tourist was filmed pouring beer down the trunk of an elephant at a private wildlife conservancy

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Pastor Jamal Bryant blasts Rick Ross for Target shopping

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

Pastor Jamal Bryant took a blowtorch to Rick Ross for defying the pleas of Black leaders to refrain from shopping at Target stores. Bryant, the

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