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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Keenan Scott II's play 'Thoughts of a Colored Man,' a work about the outer and inner lives of Black men, is heading to the bright lights of Broadway. The play will be given a Shubert theater and will open whenever Broadway restarts. It will be directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. Both playwright and director are Black and will be making their Broadway debuts. 'Thoughts of a Colored Man' is made up of related vignettes and set over the course of a single day in Brooklyn, where seven Black […]
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Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Biden reminded the audience of a little more than 100 people – down from an anticipated 900 because of the pandemic – that Trump called fallen military members “losers and suckers.” While Trump dared Biden to say, “Law and order,” Wallace opened discussions on race. “Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down,” the moderator asked Trump.
President Donald Trump moved a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, so it would no longer fall on June 19th, or Juneteenth, the day commemorating Black emancipation from slavery.
The president had been criticized for planning a rally on the holiday, specifically in Tulsa, the site of a 1921 racist massacre of Black people by white mobs.
, who is Black, had called Trump’s rally, when it was planned for Juneteenth, a “welcome home party” for “white supremacists.”
Pressed about Trump’s decision to hold a rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Thursday that it was a “meaningful day” for Trump, adding, “The African American community is very near and dear to his heart.”
Trump has a long history of racism, including calling for the death penalty for the “Central Park Five,” the Black teens wrongfully accused of raping a white woman in New York, as well as pushing the racist “birther” conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. and could not become president.
When President Donald Trump announced he'd be sending federal agents to several cities experiencing spikes in gun violence this summer,... View Article
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Please help meet the goal of $80K for this to be built. This entrance will be a light at the end of a tunnel. It will evolve into how countless Milwaukeeans stuck in passages of poverty and homelessness get a chance to take part in the glory of living. This will be the entrance to our Welcome Center–the first […]
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Dr. Anthony Fauci says he and his family continue to receive death threats over his public statements about combating the... View Article
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By David Singh, Rory Fraser and Timothy Laing
Last week we examined the current circumstances and contradictions that Guyana faces regarding its ‘green brand’ and the rapidly evolving extraction of fossil fuels in its territorial waters.
The article Climate Change and Fossil Fuel Extraction – A Chance for Guyana to Demonstrate Global Leadership? appeared first on Stabroek News.
Cosatu has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to act decisively against corruption and \"prove that his administration is not a powerless scarecrow with rubber teeth\".
William Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.[1] [2]
A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he started in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of Americas elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina.[3]
Taylor was also a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the worlds foremost spokesman for jazz.[4]
Taylor was born in Greenville, North Carolina, but moved to Washington, D.C., when he was five years old. He grew up in a musical family and learned to play different instruments as a child, including guitar, drums and saxophone. He was most successful at the piano, and had classical piano lessons with Henry Grant, who had educated Duke Ellington a generation earlier. Taylor made his first professional appearance playing keyboard at the age of 13 and was paid one dollar.[5] Taylor attended Dunbar High School, the U.S.s first high school for African-American students. He went to Virginia State College and majored in sociology. Pianist Dr. Undine Smith Moore noticed young Taylors talent in piano and he changed his major to music, graduating with a degree in music in 1942.[5]
Taylor moved to New York City after graduation and started playing piano professionally from 1944, first with Ben Websters Quartet on New Yorks 52nd Street. The same night he joined Websters Quartet, he met Art Tatum, who became his mentor. Among the other musicians Taylor worked with was Machito and his mambo band, from
IT has been 28 years since residents in Hampshire, St Catherine, harboured thoughts of having water flow through their pipes.
He said a decades-old water tank that was set up in the rural community to ease their pain was removed in 2016, adding to their distress.
According to residents in the farming community, located in the St Catherine North Eastern constituency, the tank was moved to a People's National Party stronghold, leaving them to fend for themselves.
“Them prefer buy water or fix up them tank.
“Sometimes they truck water and some people buy because, as you can see, they have tanks and drums.
ZIMBABWE’S hope of hosting this year’s edition of IHF Trophy Zone Six still hangs in the balance as countries that are supposed to participate are yet to get approval from their respective governments amid the COVID-19 pandemic. BY FREEMAN MAKOPA The national federation got the right to host the regional tournament following a successful bid last year. Zimbabwe Handball Federation (ZHF) president Stewart Sanhewe told NewsDay Sport that they were still waiting for the government to approve their submissions. “We were supposed to host this year’s edition of the IHF trophy from April 24 to 30, but this was postponed due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic which has hit various parts of the world. Since then we have been on wait-and-see mode. “Like any other sporting disciples we have applied to the government to host this championship, but we have not yet received the greenlight to host it. We gave them our proposals and we are still waiting for their approval and the other thing is of the eight countries which are set to participate, only three of them have been given approval to travel while the rest are yet to get approval from their governments,” he said. Sanhewe said the sporting organisation had been hit hard by the impact of the coronavirus. “It’s a double effect to us because after the outbreak of coronavirus, it means to participate at any international tournaments, we would need to get clearance. It's very expensive in the sense that we would need to carry out COVID-19 tests for every player and we all know how expensive it is and it will also drain our budget,” he added. The tournament is expected to feature eight countries from southern Africa battling it out for honours in the Boys Under-21 and Under-18 categories. The girls’ edition of the fiesta was held in Zambia last year with Madagascar dominating proceedings. Zimbabwe got the go-ahead to host the prestigious event last year, but there had been concerns over the state of its facilities. However, the African Handball Confederation (CAHB) director of sport, Assemian Noel, endorsed the facilities when he visited the country this month. Noel made recommendations before leaving the country for the Ivory Coast on areas he thought needed to be addressed. The games, if approved, would be held at the Chitungwiza Aquatic Complex, a venue which was also used for the 1995 All-Africa Games as well as the City Sports Centre in Harare.
On the eve of Juneteenth and following a historic Supreme Court victory for LGBTQ rights, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Hill District Thursday for a rally and march seeking justice for the Black transgender community.
Speaking through a megaphone, Miracle Jones urged allies to work to support Black transgender people.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that gay and transgender workers are entitled to workplace protection under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Last Friday, about 200 people joined a march and candlelight vigil in McKeesport for Aaliyah Johnson, a transgender Black woman who died in May.
Hundreds of people march down Centre Avenue holding signs, flags and banners during the Pittsburgh Action for Black Trans Lives on June 18, 2020.
Although there is no intrinsic contradiction between the three most-voiced demands of the current movement—community control of police, defunding the police, and abolition of policing as we know it—only proposals for community control of the police directly confront the issue of power in the here and now, and also address demands for direct democracy and Black self-determination.
Although community control of the police is within reach of becoming law in Chicago, a majority Black and Brown city with the second largest concentration of Blacks in the nation, the demand has gotten less traction in nationwide demonstrations than the call for defunding the cops, or eventual abolition.
However, Black Lives Matter is more a quilt than a monolith, and many BLM chapters and individuals also support community control of the police, while CPAC activists also back defunding and abolition of the cops as a logical outcome of community control.
The elements of Black Lives Matter that are resistant to community control of police are those under the influence of hashtag founder Alicia Garza, who is now a Democratic Party political player and go-to person for corporate philanthropy.
Therefore, community control of police advocates would be in principled agreement with the Los Angeles Movement 4 Black Lives position: “The most impacted in our communities need to control the laws, institutions, and policies that are meant to serve us—from our schools to our local budgets, economies, and police department.”
More than 500,000 people worldwide have now died from the novel coronavirus, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker.
More than 10 million cases have been recorded worldwide, with the U.S. and Europe making up half of the world’s cases.
The U.S. has more than a quarter of the world's cases (2.5 million) and deaths (125,000) as of Monday, according to the Johns Hopkins data.
Western Bureau: While no concrete decision has been reached, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has said discussions are ongoing with the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) for them to construct a state-of-the-art justice complex as part of its commercial...
The Western Cape has passed its first Covid-19 peak, but is now planning to deal with the fall-out from the lockdown and the global pandemic.
The 'Black Panther' star died after a battle with cancer at the age of 43.
Despite the havoc the COVID-19 pandemic has caused by canceling countless events across the nation, the Downtown Los Angeles Women’s Center (DWC) is holding a virtual campaign to raise funds to help homeless women. Unlike previous years when a gala was organized, this year the “Together Housed” campaign began on Sunday, September 6 and will […]
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[Premium Times] The expected appointment of Nigeria's former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, (WTO) will have to wait a little further as the WTO General Council on Friday postponed indefinitely its special meeting earlier scheduled for Monday, November 9, to complete the process.
Isabel Wilkerson's second book is a masterwork of writing — a profound achievement of scholarship and research that stands, also, as a triumph of both visceral storytelling and cogent analysis.
Confederate Adm. Raphael Semmes, in green-patinaed bronze, sword at his hip, long stood sentry on Mobile&s Government Street, the main corridor
THE resumption of domestic football this year has been thrown into further doubt amid reports that Zifa is yet to engage government and other football stakeholders on US$1 million needed for the proposed bio-bubble concept to kick off and succeed. BY TAWANDA TAFIRENYIKA Domestic football, which has been on hold since March when authorities imposed a national lockdown to contain the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, is expected to restart early next month with a two-week mini-league tournament. Although government, through the Sports ministry, greenlighted the resumption of football under strict COVID-19 regulations, it has refused to commit itself to funding the tournament, saying Zifa and its affiliates would foot the bill. Zifa in response said although it would lead the safe return of football, it would confine itself to only funding the testing of players and payment of referees. The bio bubble concept is expected to gobble over US$1m. The soccer-controlling body said it was engaging the government and other stakeholders on how other cost centres can be funded. But about a month before the proposed resumption, some clubs have not received the required COVID-19 test kits, while Zifa has not yet engaged government formally over funding some aspects of the tournament that include accommodation and upkeep of players and officials during the tournament. Accommodation and living expenses as well as travel costs are expected to gobble a larger chunk of the budget. “Zifa is committed to leading the safe return of football by funding the testing of players and paying referees’ fees. We are still engaging government on how other cost centres can be funded to ensure that the return of football happens flawlessly. We are optimistic that government and other stakeholders will collaborate with us to allow the safe return of football,” Zifa said in a statement a few weeks ago. “We are hoping that teams can return to training by October 26, 2020 if all engagements go on smoothly. Thereafter, it has been agreed that six weeks of preparations will take place before actual matches commence.” However, Sports and Recreation Commission director-general Prince Mupazviriho yesterday said they had not been approached by Zifa over the funding of the two-week tournament. “We have not been approached by Zifa in relation to that. It will be difficult for me to comment on that because they have not engaged us on the issue of funding the tournament,” he said. For the mini-league to work out, clubs will need funding for accommodation and the players' upkeep as well as money for allowances. Players will need to be isolated from the public and their families after getting tested for the disease and Zifa is not ready to foot such a bill. The football federation says it needs a helping hand as it is already grappling with funding national teams’ international assignments. The Warriors are set to clash with African champions Algeria in back-to-back 2021 African Cup of Nations qualifiers this month. They travel to the north African country first for the show
The latest rapper to take it upon himself to do what our government should be doing is Miami’s own Flo Rida as TMZ is reporting that the “My House” rapper teamed up with his personal doctor to open up a mobile coronavirus testing center to help people take tests to learn if they have the deadly virus.
Investing his own cash to build the project, the $1.5 million healthcare venture dubbed The Asktabs Mobile Wellness Center has already begun to make the rounds and test Floridians as the state begins to re-open at a time when The Rona is still running rampant across the nation.
Flo Rida’s mobile site is available for anyone, but we’re told the main focus is providing testing for businesses so workers can get their jobs back as quickly and safely as possible.
As you can see, they’re repurposing their vitamin van to transport testing supplies.Big props to Flo Rida for this one.Though Florida hasn’t seen the number of Coronavirus cases in comparison to a New York or California, the state’s Trumpian Governor Ron DeSantis has made all the wrong decisions during the pandemic which many professionals feel only help spread the virus on a grander scale.With many people being able to contract the virus without showing any kind of symptoms and becoming “super spreaders,” this latest venture is welcome news at a time when millions of Americans have no idea how to go about getting tested themselves.Hopefully, more celebrities or just everyday millionaires follow suit and take it upon themselves to help people get tested cause Lord knows our elected officials aren’t stepping up to the plate.
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