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Cheating American College Students Are Paying Kenyans to Complete Schoolwork & Asking them to Dumb it Down

In a problem that shows no sign of abating as education increasingly is being conducted remotely, a recent CBS investigation has uncovered that American college students are outsourcing schoolwork to Kenyans overseas who are paid thousands of dollars a month to do anything from…

All Africa America Business Central Africa East Africa North Africa Southern Africa West Africa by Editor August 9, 2021

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Black Billionaires of 2021

Forbes recently published their list of billionaires for 2021 and the black billionaire list is growing. This year, Kanye West, Rihanna and Tyler Perry are now part of the billionaire club. A few Billionaires who were on previous lists fell off because…

All Africa America by Editor August 5, 2021

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Why They Fight Obamacare

A new study led by researchers at North Carolina State University finds that states that exhibit higher levels of systemic racism also have pronounced racial disparities regarding access to health care. The authors used publicly available state-level data from the Census Bureau…

All Africa America South America Sports The Caribbean by John Akina August 3, 2021

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Black Athletes Shine at 2021 Olympic Games

Elaine Thompson-Herah strikes second gold of Tokyo 2020 in 200m final with Christine Mboma of Namibia claiming silver. Athing Mu takes 800m gold Selemon Barega won gold in 10,000m finals Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (PUR) women's 100m hurdles final winner Weightlifting-Ecuador's Barrera wins gold in women's…

All Africa America by Editor August 2, 2021

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Wealth is Growing Fast in the Black Community- Merrill Lynch

Wealth creation is now happening at a faster rate in Black and Latino communities than the general population, new research from Merrill Lynch shows. U.S. households earning more than $125,000—which Merrill defines as affluent—have grown by 53% since 2015, according to the…

All Africa America by Samantha Johnas July 28, 2021

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New Study Finds That Property Tax Rates Unfairly Burden Black Homeowners

A new study by Christopher Berry, the William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, finds that low-income families face far higher property tax rates than high-income families. The reason is differences in assessment rates between low-income and high-income…

All Africa America by Editor July 9, 2021

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Zaila Avant-garde Is the New Spelling Bee Champ

Zaila Avant-garde just won the National Spelling Bee. Zaila outlasted a field of 11 finalists to win the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee title and the first-place prize of $50,000 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. In…

All Africa America by Editor June 18, 2021

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Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom

Juneteenth is now a US federal holiday. Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day…

America Featured Theories West Africa by Editor April 15, 2021

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Niger’s Ibrahim Cissé Awarded the Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science

Professor of Physics Ibrahim Cissé has been named one of the 2021 recipients of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for "his use of super-resolution biological imaging to directly visualize the process of gene expression in living cells, and…

America Culture Featured by Samantha Johnas March 11, 2021

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Meghan Markle: Was in Love with White Supremacy Until THEY Rejected Her

Last Sunday, Meghan Markle and her husband Harry agreed to sit down for an interview with Oprah. During the interview, Meghan alleged that the Royal family and its staff had been racist and hostile towards her when she married into their family.…