Pope Francis Appoints First African-American Cardinal

5 Socially Distant Memorial Day Activities

In a normal year, Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer as millions of people head to beaches, parks and backyards to take part in any of a number of fun

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

US faces Memorial Day like no other under virus restrictions | The Atlanta Voice

Americans marked a Memorial Day like no other Monday as the coronavirus pandemic upended traditional commemorations and forced communities to honor the nation’s military dead with smaller, more subdued ceremonies like car convoys and online tributes instead of

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

St Elizabeth teen braces for surgery

TREASURE BEACH, St Elizabeth — The family of 16-year-old Hampton School student Nittia Deleon is to know on Wednesday when a surgery to remove a fast-growing tumour in her jaw will be

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Hospitals demand COVID-19 records

“Is the ministry aware of what is happening in both private and public health institutions where we have experienced many non-COVID-19 deaths because the policy is that one cannot be admitted when they do not have COVID-19 test

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Weakening Zimdollar wreaks havoc

MARKET forces have caused havoc on the Zimbabwe dollar on the parallel market, with the exchange rate shooting to

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Local agency helps Housing Authority assist residents –

May connected HACDB with Halifax Urban Ministries (HUM), and a public-private partnership providing free food assistance for Housing Authority residents was

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Source: Daytona Times

'America told us to get over it': Black Vietnam veterans hail Spike Lee film that finally tells their story

Black veterans across America are hoping this painful and enduring legacy will get the attention it deserves in Spike Lee’s new film, Da 5 Bloods, which chronicles the journey of four African American vets who return to Vietnam in search of their fallen squad leader and buried

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Coronavirus: Rapper Desiigner waives off rent for his NY tenants

Brooklyn-born rapper Desiigner is waiving off rent for the “next couple of months” for tenants in his residential properties in New York during the coronavirus pandemic because he doesn’t “want to see anybody on the

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Iran oil tanker reaches Venezuela amid US tension | New York Carib News

The first of five Iranian oil tankers – Fortune, Forest, Petunia, Faxon, and Clavel – has entered Venezuela’s waters carrying more than a million barrels of fuel, and being escorted by the Venezuelan navy and air

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Source: The New York Carib News

Thandiswa Mazwai’s essential performance to mark Africa Day

Brand SA and the department of sports, arts and culture, in association with Constitution Hill, present Play Your Part Africa Live Stream Concert on May

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Source: https://city-press.news24.com

Rubis in COVID-19 donation to CDC, GPHC

Joining the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Rubis Guyana Inc is providing transportation for frontline workers and has also contributed more than $2M as part of its several initiatives aimed at providing relief to persons in need and to ongoing efforts of the Civil Defence Commission

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Officials wrong to order deportation of Jamaican-born man, says US court

CONNECTICUT, United States (AP) — A federal appeals court has reversed a decision by immigration authorities to deport a Connecticut man because he was convicted of felony assault 19 years ago, when he was 18, despite state officials having pardoned

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Reopening of schools: I understand the concerns, I am also a mother, says Motshekga

Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga says she understands the anxieties, concerns and fears around Covid-19 ahead of the phased reopening of schools on

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Locusts, Covid-19, bad weather: The anatomy of a food crisis

A spectre of food crisis is haunting East Africa, preceded by an unfortunate axis of locust invasion, Covid-19 pandemic and adverse

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Source: The East African

Number of working Black business owners falls 40 percent amid COVID-19

The number of working African American business owners in the United States plummeted more than 40 percent as the coronavirus shut down much of the economy — a far steeper drop than other racial groups experienced, according to an analysis confirming fears the pandemic would deepen inequalities in

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

China's trillions toward tech won't buy dominance

The plans are bold and vague: China wants to bring technology into its mainstream infrastructure build-out and, in the process, heave the economy out of a gloom due only partly to the

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Source: TechCentral

Chamisa, ED talks inevitable: Mtata

DIALOGUE between opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and President Emmerson Mnangagwa remains key in resolving the country’s multi-layered political and economic crises and churches will push for the talks to materialise, says Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) secretary-general Kenneth

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Indonesian leader in ‘Trump-like’ fight with governors

But while it is states’ governors and not President Donald Trump who have the final say in imposing and ending lockdowns and “shelter in place” orders in the U.S., in Indonesia, Widodo makes the call, which has the governors of the 34 provinces in the country up in

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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper

Hanoverians reject COVID-19 patient, saying he’s from Portland

RESIDENTS OF Hanover are taking to social media and other platforms to chastise the Government for crediting the parish with one case of COVID-19 after a male cruise ship worker from the Adventure of the Seas, which docked in Falmouth, Trelawny, last week, tested positive for the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Did Molly Take It Too Far? And Other Questions From Last Night’s Episode Of “Insecure”

After the way Molly has been acting, I can’t say I was excited to watch her gallivant around Mexico with Andrew, ignoring the very real issues of her life. But y’all know the saying, wherever you go, there you are. There was plenty of mess awaiting her across the border. Let’s get into some of it

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Source: MadameNoire

The Black crisis in the midst of the coronavirus crisis

“Even though Black people are in the emerging hot zones… Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, New Orleans…we lack the ethnic

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Nation’s smallest small businesses get left behind during COVID-19

In late March, Congress approved the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, known as the CARES Act, setting aside $376 billion in funding for American workers and small

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Source: South Florida Times

Frank Baker pays off tuition for 50 Spelman College graduates

Frank Baker, an African-American and founder of Siris Capital in New York, has paid off the debt for nearly 50 students graduating from Spelman College, the all-women historically black college in

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

These three women from Guinea-Bissau became the first black women in Portugal's parliament

Up until now, the only black person to serve as a member of parliament since Portugal returned to democracy in 1974 was a man – Helder Amaral who represented the conservative CDS party between 2002 and

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Madagascar sends troops, doctors to virus-hit eastern town

Madagascar's government has announced it will dispatch troops and doctors to an eastern town after several bodies were found in the streets and where two people died from the novel

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Eutaw City Council meeting continues to discuss Water Department

Most of the City Council meeting was devoted to a continuing discussion of the need to correct problems of water meters, computers and software to read the meters, conformity in water billing and making sure that the water was generating sufficient revenues to support the City

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

Biden says he was too 'cavalier' about Black voters' choices

Joe Biden says he “should not have been so cavalier” after he told a prominent black radio host that African Americans who back President Donald Trump

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Algerians find smartphones are a lockdown essential | Afro

Since the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic, smartphones have become increasingly popular in Algeria, as many people across the country use their time in lockdown to connect with each other and the outside world, new research

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Kadewere's UCL dream still alive

WARRIORS striker Tino Kadewere’s hopes of playing in the Uefa Champions League next season received a blow on Friday, but the expected return to La Liga action in Spain has given Lyon a glimmer of hope that they can fight for their place in Europe’s premier club

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Algerians find smartphones are a lockdown essential

Since the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic, smartphones have become increasingly popular in Algeria, as many people across the country use their time in lockdown to connect with each other and the outside world, new research

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Source: South Florida Times

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