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Fighting wave of misinfo, YouTube bans false vaccine claims
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Fighting wave of misinfo, YouTube bans false vaccine claims

Amanda Seitz AP NewsSeptember 29, 2021

YouTube announced a sweeping crackdown of vaccine misinformation Wednesday that booted popular anti-vaccine influencers from its site and deleted false claims that have been made about a range of immunizations.

The video-sharing platform said it will no longer allow users to baselessly speculate that approved vaccines, like the ones given to prevent the flu or measles, are dangerous or cause diseases.

Black Star Network: Roland Martin Announces New Black TV Network
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Black Star Network: Roland Martin Announces New Black TV Network

Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire ContributorSeptember 9, 2021

Martin announced his new network on the third anniversary of #RolandMartinUnfiltered, the first daily digital show specifically targeting African American audiences five days a week. The show has enjoyed expansive audience growth averaging 20 to 30 million views a month.

Chair Beatty Denounces Wells Fargo CEO’s Racially Insensitive Remarks
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Chair Beatty Denounces Wells Fargo CEO’s Racially Insensitive Remarks

Sentinel News ServiceOctober 1, 2020

U.S. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03), Chair of the House Financial Services Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee, wrote a letter to Wells Fargo President and CEO Charles Scharf to express her profound disappointment and disagreement with his remarks regarding the false and misguided perception of a shortage of qualified African Americans as an excuse for his failure to meet Wells Fargo’s workforce diversity goals:

LA Activists Drill Down on Who Deserves Reparations for Slavery and Why
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LA Activists Drill Down on Who Deserves Reparations for Slavery and Why

Aldon Thomas Stiles, California Black MediaJuly 23, 2020

As state and federal lawmakers grapple with whether or not the State of California — and the United States as a whole — should take a closer look at what it owes the descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States, a group of Black California activists are getting ahead of the conversation. They are distilling the case for reparations down to why African Americans deserve to get paid for centuries of free labor and the Jim Crow laws and other forms of state-enforced discriminatory practices that followed. They are also specifying which segment of Black Americans should get those payments. 

States Led by Texas Target Google in New Antitrust Probe
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States Led by Texas Target Google in New Antitrust Probe

RACHEL LERMAN and MARCY GORDON, Associated PressSeptember 12, 2019

The Monday announcement closely followed one from a separate group of states Friday that disclosed an investigation into Facebook’s market dominance. The two probes widen the antitrust scrutiny of big tech companies beyond sweeping federal and congressional investigations and enforcement action by European regulators.

Uproar Over Expulsion of Famed Anti-Colonialist Professor
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Uproar Over Expulsion of Famed Anti-Colonialist Professor

Global Information NetworkOctober 12, 2018

Zambian authorities roiled the nation’s waters by deporting an influential pan-Africanist professor before he could disembark at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport and before he could address a class of graduating university seniors on the topic: “Africa in the age of China’s Global Influence and Global Geodynamics.”