Billie Allen, actress who bridged a racial gap, dies at 90

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Obama To Bring Civic Leaders To Chicago In October

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he plans to invite civic leaders to Chicago next month to exchange ideas and plan ways to solve some of the world’s co…

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Parents Die Trying to Save Son Who Fell Into Volcanic Crater in Italy; Boy Also Dead — KTLA

An 11-year-old boy died after he fell into a volcanic crater in Italy and his parents also died when they tried to help him, police said. Emergency crews stand on the site where three family members died when they fell into a volcanic crater near Naples, Italy. (Credit: Associated Press via CNN Wire) The incident…

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Baltimore Black-Owned Juice Bar Squeezes Its Way to Small Business Success

Black Enterprise caught up with Kenny Minor, owner of Xtract Juice Bar in Baltimore, Maryland to talk about the benefits of juicing and entrepreneurship.

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Court Rules President Trump’s Travel Ban Doesn’t Include Grandparents and Cousins — TIME

(SEATTLE) — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s limited view of who is allowed into the United States under the president’s travel ban, saying grandparents, cousins and similarly close relations of people in the U.S. should not be prevented from coming to the country. The unanimous ruling from three judges on…

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MLK Jr’s Son Dexter: Give Trump A Chance On Dreamers — Black America Web

If you thought Martin Luther King Jr.‘s son Dexter would be a Trump hater as far as 45’s stance on the dreamers, think again. Dexter King, MLK’s youngest child, spoke to a photog at LAX, who assumed he wouldn’t be down with Trump. Oops! Photog guy was wrong. King says he wants to cut Trump a…

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‘She’s Dead on the Floor.’ Man Says He Killed His Wife After Taking Too Much Cold Medicine — TIME

Authorities in Raleigh, North Carolina charged a man with murder after he told a 911 operator he took cold medicine and awoke to find his wife fatally stabbed on the floor. “I think I killed my (wife),” Matthew James Phelps said in a 911 call published by the Raleigh News & Observer. When the dispatcher…

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Paul Ryan’s Duplicity – President Trump To Announce DACA Legal Review and Policy Decision on Tuesday… — The Last Refuge

During a press briefing today White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that President Trump will announce the final decision on how to proceed with the controversial Obama Executive Action known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). However, Speaker Paul Ryan now says he doesn’t want President Trump to tear up DACA. As […]

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