The George Floyd Matter — Local Issue, Global Consequences

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The recent trag­ic death of George Floyd, anoth­er black vic­tim of police bru­tal­i­ty in Amer­i­ca, shook the world. Although occur­ring amidst arguably the dead­liest pan­dem­ic in mod­ern his­to­ry, the coro­n­avirus, news of his death stirred up a lot of emo­tions across the globe. These emo­tions led to protests through­out all 50 states in Amer­i­ca, and even…

In Case You Missed It: 01/11/16 – 01/18/16

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The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. In this week’s news, South Africa goes head-to-head with the U.S. over chick­en, meat and pork, and a new case of Ebo­la is dis­cov­ered in Sier­ra Leone a day after it is declared Ebo­la-free. South Africa Settles…