Leonardo Blair

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  Sep 29, 2020

  Lower-income Americans, blacks and Hispanics bearing brunt of COVID-19 economic fallout: study

  Large swaths of American adults have been struggling to pay for necessities like housing and food since the start of the new coronavirus pandemic. But the brunt of the economic fallout from the virus has been more acutely felt among adults with lower incomes, those without a college degree and black and Hispanic Americans.

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  Sep 28, 2020

  ‘We have been blind to our white privilege,’ evangelical pastor says at racial justice event

  A group of white clergy asked their black counterparts for forgiveness and prayerfully committed to actively work to achieve racial justice as they marked four months since the death of George Floyd at the Bethel AME Church in Spokane, Washington, Friday.

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  Sep 28, 2020

  Conservative Clergy of Color slams Kamala Harris for praising ‘brilliance’ of Black Lives Matter founders

  Conservative Clergy of Color, a coalition of African-American pastors who say they were called to bring a new perspective to the nation’s conversation on race, slammed Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris on Friday for praising the “brilliance” of the founders of Black Lives Matter.

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  Sep 26, 2020

  Only 20% of Americans see racial inequality as important issue facing families, poll finds

  While a majority of American families have discussed Black Lives Matter and police brutality in the wake of ongoing protests about racial inequality, only a minority of them, regardless of political affiliation, see it as an important issue according to the latest American Family Survey.

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  Sep 25, 2020

  ‘Woke, liberal’ Big Tech firms trying to influence election against Trump, Sen. Hawley warns

  Big Tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter are operated by “woke capitalists” who are intent on using their “enormous power” to influence the outcome of the 2020 elections and censor conservative voices, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley from Missouri warned Thursday.

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  Sep 24, 2020

  Just 2% of millennials hold a biblical worldview, lowest among all adults: study

  Although 61% of American millennials consider themselves to be Christian, just 2% of them were found to hold a biblical worldview, according to a recent study released by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University.

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  Sep 24, 2020

  Religion is ‘under siege,’ Bill Barr tells Catholics as he accepts award for ‘service in the Lord’s vineyard’

  Calling it the foundation of free society, Attorney General Bill Barr said religion in America is “under siege” and urged an audience at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast Wednesday to continue to advocate for religious liberty as he accepted an award from the group for his “service in the Lord’s vineyard.”

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  Sep 24, 2020

  Trump vows to sign executive order protecting all babies born alive, including survivors of abortion

  President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to sign an executive order to protect all babies born alive, including those who survive abortion.

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  Sep 23, 2020

  Costco pulls Palmetto Cheese from shelves after founder calls Black Lives Matter ‘terror organization’

  Retail giant Costco Wholesale has reportedly removed Palmetto Cheese products from its shelves after Brian Henry, founder of the pimento cheese company and mayor of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, branded Black Lives Matter a “terror organization.”

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  Sep 23, 2020

  Trump issues executive order to combat ideology that America is ‘irredeemably racist and sexist’

  President Donald Trump issued an executive order to combat “offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating” Tuesday just over two weeks after he directed federal agencies to stop teaching government workers about critical race theory and related concepts like “white privilege.”