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Tracy Morgan surprised residents when he appeared at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new community center in Brooklyn. The event made the legendary comedian feel nostalgic about his own humble beginnings when he resided in the area as a child.
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.
PATIENT CARE at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland got a significant boost on Tuesday with a joint donation of several items from the Issa Trust Foundation and Food For The Poor.
The five monitors, which were presented alongside other medical items, were from a batch of 50, distributed to hospitals across the island over the past week, through an initiative spearheaded by the Issa Trust Foundation in March.
“This thrust came in early March when the rush was on for ventilators and we realised that patient monitors were the next hot items disappearing from the world.
Diane Pollard, from the Issa Trust, called me and said she found 50 patient monitors, but because COVID-19 took us by storm, they didn’t have enough funds to buy them,” Clarke explained.
“I suggested to Ms Pollard to arrange a meeting between Issa Trust and other charitable organisations, such as American Friends of Jamaica and Food For The Poor, to pool together to buy these 50 critical patient monitors,” continued Clarke.
As the pandemic continues to affect Black and other communities of color disproportionately, health experts are warning of a new mental health crisis linked to the coronavirus outbreak: an increase in suicides among Blacks. Measures suggested by health officials to curb the spread of the virus, including social distancing, may lead to isolation and suicide []
As the global pandemic continues to wreck havoc on people throughout the world, a number of celebrities have broken their silence to report that they have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Although the Golden Globe winning actor and his wife, Sabrina Dhowre, only experienced mild symptoms, Elba says he and his wife had their lives “turned around” after contracting the coronavirus, calling the experience “definitely scary and unsettling and nervous.”
Gospel singer BeBe Winans admitted that he saw the news about COVID-19 but didn’t think he would contract the virus.
Singer Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds took to Twitter on April 10 to thank fans for their birthday messages and also to reveal that he had tested positive for the coronavirus along with his family.
“I tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, as did my family.
Christian Cooper, the birdwatcher who got into an altercation with a white woman in New York’s Central Park, wrote a graphic novel based on his […]
By Brice Lewis, 16, Youth Farm participant What is a bully? You'll get different answers depending on who you talk to. For some, it's something small and simple, and for others, it leads to thoughts that make some youth feel like giving up. I’ve been bullied, and it's not fun. As a young Black man growing […]
As two white gay men leading national organizations focused on older Americans, the killing of George Floyd and many other manifestations of systemic racism in this country have reminded us of a lesson we must not forget this month or in the weeks, months and years to come: There can never be equity and equality for older Americans, for LGBTQ people or for anybody else until we dismantle white supremacy in this country and replace it with racial equity.
A deadly health threat that disproportionately sickens and kills older people as a whole gets minimized by the president and his followers, who decide that it’s worth the sacrifice of Black and brown lives to ignore the pandemic in favor of political posturing and reckless disregard of public health.
And we pledge to ensure that the organizations we head — the American Society on Aging and SAGE — will stand up for Black and brown older people and stand against systemic racism.
This agenda insists on equity in health care and elder services for Black elders and elders of color and will fight for an equitable distribution of resources to organizations working with older Americans in people of color communities.
During this month of Pride, we pledge to honor our elders — including the brave pioneers at Stonewall on whose shoulders we stand as gay men — by fully engaging in this historic struggle for an America where all people can thrive and where Black Lives Matter.
Shape the Culture, a digital platform that focuses on highlighting the good work young individuals are doing to impact and move the country forward, will host a “Be the Change Unity Rally” on Sunday, June 21 at Kelly Ingram Park located in downtown Birmingham.
This peaceful rally will bring together young people from across the Birmingham area to use their collective voices to take a stand against racism, injustice, and inequity.
The rally is being led by young activists from the Birmingham area and will begin at 3 p.m.
“With everything going on now — racial injustice, brutal treatment of African Americans by law enforcement, the way that COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting people of color — no one is really concentrating on how these issues are affecting young people,” said Jordyn Hudson, a rising senior at Indian Springs School and founder of Shape the Culture.
“Young people played a pivotal role in the historic Civil Rights Movement that took place on the downtown streets of Birmingham.
Shape the Culture was founded to showcase the good work young people are doing in their communities across America.
NEW YORK (AP) — Black Roman Catholics are hearing their church’s leaders calling for racial justice once again after the killing of George Floyd, but this time they’re demanding not just words but action.
As protests against racism and police brutality continue nationwide, there are rising calls for huge new investment in Catholic schools serving Black communities; a commitment to teach the complex history of Black Catholics; and a mobilization to combat racism with the same zeal the church shows in opposing abortion.
The church has made clear it stands against racism,” said the Rev. Mario Powell, a Black priest who heads a Jesuit middle school in Brooklyn.
The same day her article appeared, Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., the highest-ranking Black leader in the U.S. church, joined eight fellow bishops from his region in acknowledging the church’s “sins and failings” on racial justice.
Black Catholics’ somewhat marginal place in the U.S. church is illustrated by statistics compiled by the national bishops’ conference.
Lawmakers did set aside $30 billion for smaller lenders, in part with the aim of helping business owners of color — like Ugboajah.
But a new report from the Small Business Administration's inspector general found that businesses owned by people of color may not have received loans as intended under the Paycheck Protection Program.
Without that information for past loans, it will be hard to know how well the program served business owners of color.
Some businesses owned by one person — such as some sole proprietorships, like Ugboajah's Neka Creative — were only allowed to apply for funds one week after other businesses.
Ugboajah has six people on her team — and they're all contractors — making her business one of those one-person sole proprietorships.
CAREERS IN Racing (CiR), the dedicated careers marketing arm of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA),...
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… strength of his appeal to African-American voters, but he needs non …
Dallas Public Library’s SMART Summer with Mayor Johnson will kick off May 30, with incentives and prizes to encourage reading and at-home virtual learning experiences.
“We have all endured a steady stream of disappointing cancellations and closures in recent months, so I am excited that we are able to move forward with SMART Summer,” said Mayor Johnson.
SMART Summer is sponsored by Friends of the Dallas Public Library, the nonprofit organization that funds programming and marshals public support for the library system.
Formerly known as the Mayor’s Summer Reading Challenge, SMART Summer emphasizes the learning beyond reading that happens at the library: Science, Math, Art, Reading and Technology.
“Dallas families have faced hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the closures of schools have made it even more critical that we provide learning opportunities for our children over the summer,” said Nikki Johnson.
All nine hopeful students won gold medals, positioning themselves to advance to the Virtual 42nd Annual NAACP ACTSO National Competition in July 2020.
Although this is the first year the competition is taking place virtually, these competitions have been held annually, two days prior to the NAACP National Convention, since 1978.
The Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), informally named the “Olympics of the Mind,” is a youth program of the NAACP that is “designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students.
Although this is the first year the competition occurred virtually, these competitions have been held annually, two days prior to the NAACP National Convention, since 1978.
During Lizzo's meteoric rise she's been both praised and dragged for her body positivity. But now the entertainer is coming... View Article
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(Trinidad Guardian) Gangsters be warned: this is a war you will not win.
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Today, Adzogble is a national asset in the field of education.
She is the founder and CEO of the Caroline Group in Ghana, Kenya, UK and USA – a major conglomerate and one of the largest education groups around the world.
Caroline Group, which is making education very affordable and accessible in Africa says it is redefining education through training, consulting, marketing, travel and philanthropy.
The Group offers International University Services, International Boarding School Services, tailored travel related services to students and summer programs and philanthropy projects.
I am still on my quest to uplift Education within Africa and beyond,” the young and dynamite entrepreneur who seeks to retire two years from now at the age of 30 id.
Yesterday, New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo, signed an executive order recognizing Juneteenth as a paid holiday for state employees to commemorate the emancipation of slaves in the U.S.
New York Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman, a Democrat, introduced a bill last week to make Junenteeth a public holiday in honor of “Black and African-American freedom and achievements.”
“As a state, it is our duty to recognize and celebrate June Nineteenth, not only by adopting resolutions but by pausing statewide to acknowledge and reflect on a day that changed the trajectory of the lives of most Blacks and African Americans being held as slaves in the U.S,” reads the bill’s memo.
The governor has set an April 2021 deadline for communities to pass concrete reforms or miss out on state aid for police departments.
Virginia’s governor proposed making Juneteenth a state holiday earlier this week.
Dear Cultural Coach: Why aren’t you more concerned about giving our youths the correct tools to succeed in a global market? Encouraging students to constantly speak “hip-hop” vocabulary will only hold them back. It’s not like past generations where the youths had a few words or phrases used among themselves; this is becoming a language […]
Alice Nkom broke barriers for women by becoming the first female barrister in her country of Cameroon. She is also well known among Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) activists worldwide because of her legal advocacy for gay rights.
Nkom was born in 1945 in Poutkak, Cameroon in West Africa to Martin Nkom Bayi and Alice Ngo Bikang. She was one of eleven children. Nkom pursued higher education in France at the University of Toulouse (1963-1964) and completed her studies at the Federal University of Cameroon (1968). In 1969 at the age of 24 she became Cameroon’s first female attorney. Throughout her law career Nkom has defended low income and vulnerable people, including political prisoners, street children and women. Since 1976, she has been a stakeholder in one of the most prestigious law firms in Cameroon. After seven years of marriage, Nkom went through a divorce in 1979. She has two children, Charles and Stephane, and eight grandchildren.
The year 2003 was pivotal for Nkom. As a delegate from Cameroon, she visited Portland, Oregon as a participant in the World Affairs Council’s International Visitor Program sponsored by the U.S State Department. She returned to Portland in 2011 as a distinguished alumnus of that program. Her experiences in Oregon opened her eyes to the power of participatory democracy, community organizing and youth involvement in politics. Back home she engaged young people and women in voter registration. This work continues.
In 2003 in an effort to provide support and legal defense to LGBTQ persons in Cameroon, Nkom founded the nonprofit Association for the Defence of Homosexuals (ADEFHO). No other group does this pro bono advocacy work in her country or the rest of Western Africa. In Cameroon, engaging in same-gender sexual acts can lead to fines and imprisonment. Many of the people are arrested on rumor.
By 2011, Nkom had participated in 50 trials of LGBTQ people and facilitated the release of an additional 50 clients without trials. That same year the European Union
WASHINGTON, DC – The Voter Participation Center (VPC) and its partner group, the Center for Voter Information (CVI), are mailing 3,061,009 voter registration applications to people in Florida this month as part of their largest-ever campaign to register voters ahead of the historic 2020 election.
More than 5.6 million people who can vote in Florida are not yet registered, according to the “Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2018” supplement to the U.S. Census, and 71% of them are members of the Rising American Electorate: young people, people of color and unmarried women.
VPC and CVI run the nation’s largest mail-based voter registration program, and their work is crucial today.
VPC and CVI mail registration applications to unregistered individuals, along with pre-addressed envelopes to make it easy to send completed forms directly to local election officials.
This month, VPC and CVI will be sending nearly 12 million pieces of mail to prospective voters in 22 states.
Shortly after members of the California legislature took a knee for eight minutes and 46 seconds at the California Capitol to protest racism and the death of George Floyd, Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) took the opportunity to call out some of her Latino colleagues.
“I have to be honest, I’m disappointed with our Latino caucus,” Gonzalez said at the event that Assemblymember Syndey Kamlager (D-Los Angeles), a member the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC), organized.
Gonzalez said although some of the California Legislative Latino Caucus (CLLC) members have co-authored pieces of legislation with Black Caucus members, they have not been supportive enough of policy that can make a measurable difference in the lives of Black Californians.
“As a caucus, we’ve been woefully silent on some of the issues that the Black caucus has put out there on police reform,” continued Gonzalez, who is chair of the Latino caucus.
The protest-slash-tribute took place in front of the California State Capitol’s West steps to honor the late George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer who pinned the unarmed Black man down during an arrest.
You’re invited to celebrate Running Rebels Community Organization’s 40 years of service to Milwaukee young people at the virtual EPIC Evening presented by BMO Harris Bank on October 27th at 6:00 pm. Registration information will be emailed out in early October. The FREE event will be a joyful celebration to mark four decades of providing guidance, […]
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AS SOME 10 million children head back to school, new research commissioned by youth charity...
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The Metro Savannah Rotary Club teamed up with Loop It Up Savannah, the City of Savannah, PACK, Coastal Georgia Indicators Coalition, Isle of Hope United Methodist Church, West Broad Street YMCA, Forsyth Farmers Market, Grandma’s Hands and the Edgemere Sackville Neighborhood Association on last Wednesday, May 13, 2020 to distribute food and special ArtSmart Activity Kits for hundreds of families across Chatham County as part of a community response to the COVID pandemic.
Metro Savannah Rotary is using Club funds and a COVID emergency grant it received from Rotary International District 6920, which covers Chatham County, to make a $6,520 donation to help fund Loop It Up’s ArtSmart Activity Kits Initiative.
Loop It Up Savannah is a community art program that was founded in 2008.
The nonprofit began as a children’s knitting and crochet class at the West Broad Street YMCA, and quickly grew to include a broad spectrum of art forms as well as Yoga, Mindfulness and STEAM in weekly classes for children and adults throughout Savannah’s neighborhoods.
Through programs and partnerships with schools, community centers, museums and local businesses, Loop It Up Savannah brings art and creativity to 10,000 young people each year.
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how impoverished people and the working class suffer when food prices rise and jobs disappear, prompting a renewed interest in working the land.
In South Africa, the government-imposed lockdown has resulted in many workers losing their jobs and other sources of income.
They have been converting wasteland to food gardens and sourcing sustainable methods and ways for communities to alternatively source land, seeds and water.
During the lockdown, the group has provided vegetable parcels to women without any income and has started helping young people to acquire land that they can farm.
Its failing food parcel system would, in the long run, be replaced by a sound and sustainable solution to food insecurity in South Africa.
About two months ago we launched the Mastercard Foundation COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Program to focus on supporting African communities and young people, as well as young people and the indigenous communities in Canada, to support them and their needs as they evolve during this COVID-19 reality.
So under the Mastercard Foundation COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Program we've moved quickly to partner with a range of actors that have experience, influence and reach for building robust public responses to the COVID-19 situation.
READ: Mastercard Foundation Commits $5M to Protect Kenya Health Workers
And if you allow me, we are not just focusing on outreach or just providing equipment; we also see an opportunity here to support businesses in the countries we are working in, that can actually play a role and participate in solutions.
READ: Mastercard Foundation Supports Ethiopia MSEs Affected by COVID-19
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AllAfrica: And Daniel, on that specifically—the gender-based violence —have you been seeing it across the region, or is it more localized in some countries, and is it more an urban scourge, or is it also prevalent in the countryside?
Can you give us an example of what the foundation is doing to respond to the current economic crisis in your region, and also if there are more long-term activities the foundation is doing to help the continent be resilient and come back in full force if I may give a disclaimer, I'm sharing with you the work we are doing that I am responsible for in East and Southern Africa.
