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According to recent data, around a quarter of renters, equivalent to roughly 12 million households, are spending more than half of their income on housing costs, far exceeding the recommended one-third threshold for financial health. By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia A housing crisis is gripping tens of millions of families […]

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Singer R. Kelly is being forced to come to terms with more than his criminal acts and convictions that have landed him behind bars. Kelly apparently has been living in another type of prison all of his life, one of illiteracy. The “Bump and Grind” hitmaker who has been sentenced to 30 years in prison […]

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State election rules now allow individuals to challenge an unlimited number of voters in the Nov. 8 general election, and they specify when and how eligibility can be challenged, and conservative election deniers are taking full advantage of the questionable practice to deny some voters the right to vote. Georgia voters are facing another very […]

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The former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the murder of George Floyd got his day in court, but he will not get his day in the Supreme Court as he and his attorneys had hoped. Chauvin who was found guilty of kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes over a year ago, asked the Supreme […]

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Photo: GoFundMe A mother was denied the chance to witness the exhumation of her son after he was killed by an off-duty police officer in Jackson, Mississippi and buried without the family’s knowledge. On Monday (November 13), the body of Dexter Wade, 37, was exhumed at 8 a.m. at Hinds County Penal Farm, per WAPT. […]

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Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight Sues Conservative Group For Intimidating Voters Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight organization filed a lawsuit claiming that a conservative organization intimidated voters. According to court documents, Fair Fight says that Texas-based True the Vote came to Georgia to intimidate voters during the 2020 election. The organization announced it was challenging the eligibility […]

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Photo: Quintel Sumrall, the visionary entrepreneur behind ISeeCredit.com (Photo, BlackNews.com). By BlackNews.com In a historic milestone for the financial and technology sectors, Quintel Sumrall, the visionary entrepreneur behind ISeeCredit.com, has become the first African American to own a credit monitoring company. His groundbreaking venture is set to reshape the landscape of identity theft protection and credit monitoring services. In a […]

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis continues to face threats since indicting former President Donald Trump in August. While speaking with Fulton County leaders, Willis shared that she has received more threats and racial harassment. “(The threats) come in through my phone line, they come into the magistrate court, they come in through written letter, […]

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Disgraced former New York mayor and Trump cohort was found guilty of defamation against a mother and daughter who worked Georgia election polls during the infamous 2020 election. Giuliani falsely accused the women of election tampering and in August a U.S. District Judge ruled that Giuliani was guilty of defaming Ruby Freeman and her daughter […]

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