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NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced several changes to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions that will continue to protect the health and safety of all New Yorkers, while simultaneously boosting the city’s economic recovery. In the face of quickly declining COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations and more than 17 million doses of vaccines […]
Photo by Liz Lara-Collado, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs At the beginning of Black History, The Harlem Times sat down with New Jersey Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver, the first woman of color to hold statewide office and the first African-American woman to serve as Assembly Speaker in the state of New Jersey, to discuss
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Dr. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois, is apreacher, activist, and author. Over the last two decades, he has practiced and preached aBlack theology that unapologetically calls attention to the problems of mass incarceration,environmental justice and economic inequality. A third-generation warrior for civil and humanrights, Dr. Moss
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Erin Jackson of the United States won gold in the women’s 500 metres speed skating with an explosive start on Sunday, giving the U.S. its first gold medal in the event since 1994 and first speed skating medal at the Beijing Olympics. She could be seen grinning widely after completing her lap of
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By Brian Lamb and Byna Elliott, JPMorgan Chase Over the past year, racial equity has been pushed to the forefront of our national dialogue amid the furor of George Floyd’s death and the aftermath. The 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre and the establishment of Juneteenth National Independence Day as a new federal holiday
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By James Oliphant and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s meeting with New York Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday to discuss combating escalating gun crime signals Democrats want to send a message that they will not cede the issue of public safety to Republicans this election year. Republicans contend that a pandemic-era spike
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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal judge seen as a potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee for President Joe Biden, could make history as the first Black woman justice, boasting a varied legal resume including representing criminal defendants who could not afford a lawyer. Jackson, 51, who Biden last year appointed
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By Julio Cesar-Chavez and Dan Fastenberg RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – A year after George Floyd’s murder sparked the toppling of Confederate statues, the United States continues removing segregationist symbols at an unprecedented rate, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center report released on Tuesday. But the removal of 73 statues, signs and school names in
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