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The Face of Voter Suppression How can you be charged with illegally voting when you did not vote? Further, how can you be incarcerated for making a “mistake” casting a vote? What is a provisional ballot? Does a provisional ballot constitute a vote? How did the term “intentionally voted illegally” become the elephant-in-the -room in […]
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
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Muddy Waters was a twentieth century African American blues musician. He is deemed the “father of modern Chicago blues” and influenced the 1960s generation of England which resulted in the appearance of British blues.
Born on April 4, 1913, in Issaquena County, Mississippi, Muddy Waters was originally named McKinley Morganfield. He was raised by his grandmother, Della Grant, after the demise of his mother closely following his birth. Mrs. Grant used to call him by his nickname, Muddy, which was given to him based on his habit of playing in the muddy water. In his later life he actually took up the name Muddy Waters permanently. He began to play harmonica in his teenage years and soon after he was playing guitar at parties. In 1932, he got married to Mabel Berry but three years later his wife left him when she discovered about his infidelity and an illegitimate child with a young girl. Over the years he married once gain but left her as he moved to Chicago in 1943.
In 1941, Alan Lomax, one of the great folklorist, ethnomusicologist of American history approached Waters and recorded his music. Waters felt encouraged when he listened himself on the record and realized he could make it as a musician one day. Two years later, he flew to Chicago in hopes of becoming a full-time professional musician. During his early years in Chicago, in order to to make a living he used to drive truck and worked in a factory by day and played music at night. He was eventually given a break by a leading blues musician in Chicago, Big Bill Broonzy to perform at night clubs. By 1946, he gained enough influence to have his music recorded at Columbia but it was not released immediately. He was approached by a newly founded record label Aristocrat Records to record his work.
Waters played guitar with an American blues pianist Sunnyland Slim on the tracks such as “Little Anna Mae” and “Gypsy Woman”. By 1947 he was still struggling as a music artist. However, in 1948, with the release of “I Feel Like Going Home” and “I Can’t Be Satisfied”,
By BlackPressUSA Dr. William Busa, founder of EQV Analytics, a ‘North Carolina-focused campaign consulting firm serving Democratic candidates with advanced campaign analytics, analyzed student voter turnout from ten North Carolina campuses, three of them HBCUs N.C. AT University, in Greensboro, Winston-Salem State University and North Carolina Central University in Durham. A GDN Student Continued
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Juelz Santana is now a free man. Today (August 5), the Dipset rapper was freed from federal prison where he was serving a sentence for a gun conviction.
The Seattle chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) emerged as one of the most significant grass roots organizations in the fight for civil rights in the Pacific Northwest. Established in 1961, the Seattle chapter embodied the non-violent principles of the national organization which had been founded in Chicago in 1942. Multi-racial in composition, the Seattle chapter established a reputation for being one of CORE’s most active by the early 1960s. Best known for its organized protests against Seattle employers who engaged in racial discrimination, the Seattle chapter also worked to end discrimination towards African Americans in housing and education in the Greater Seattle area.
Several people, both black and white contributed significantly to the founding of Seattle’s chapter of CORE. Among the most important were Ken Rose, Ed and Joan Singler, and Ray Cooper whose participation in the Freedom Rides of 1961 helped inspire many others to join the organization. Ray Williams served as the first chair of CORE and Don Matson provided significant leadership. Harold “Tim” Martin played a key role along with Reginald Alleyne, Jr.
Beginning in October, 1961, the Seattle chapter began “selective buying” campaigns against various supermarkets in the city including Safeway and the A & P. Black patrons were encouraged not to shop where they could not be employed. One of the most effective tactics was the “shop-in” where protesters would take all the shopping carts, fill them, have the cashier ring them up, and then refuse to pay. By 1962, CORE shifted its focus to the downtown department stores. Jean Durning and Reverend Mance Jackson led efforts to integrate the Bon Marche. Soon to follow were efforts against Nordstroms, and J.C. Penney. Picketing was often used as a tactic. By the end of 1963, it was estimated that African Americans had been hired into more than 250 white-collar positions. Based on these gains the Seattle chapter was considered one of the most successful in the country. The
Best known for being the first black woman to be elected to Congress in the state of North Carolina, Eva Clayton, a Democrat, became known as a vigorous advocate for the concerns of African Americans and for social improvement.
Eva Clayton was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1934. She attended Johnson C. Smith University in North Carolina where she received her B.S. in 1955. She then received her M.S. at North Carolina Central University, graduating in 1962. She then enrolled at the University of North Carolina Law School.
Clayton was simultaneously the director of Health Manpower Development Programs for the University of North Carolina and Assistant Secretary for Community Development for the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development from 1977 to 1981. She later served as a member and chair of the Warren County, North Carolina Board of Commissioners from 1982 to 1992.
Clayton ran for a congressional seat and won in 1992 with over 68 percent of the vote, against her opponent who was a white Republican. Her victory made history, as she became the first African American woman to represent the state of North Carolina as well as one of two African Americans elected to Congress from that state for the first time since Reconstruction.
Eva Clayton has served on the Agriculture and Budget Committees and the Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee. She was also the co-chair of the Democratic Task Force on Health and member of the Social Security Task Force.
She has also been the executive director of the Soul City Foundation, which specialized in low incoming housing, and been a member of the Congressional Advisory Board to the national Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. Clayton was the principal sponsor of the “Patients Bill of Rights” bill. She also sought to reduce crime in inner city schools and fight drug abuse.
Clayton was reelected to Congress for four additional terms and retired from that body in 2003.
Diane Edith Watson was born November 12, 1933 in Los Angeles, California and has spent the majority of her life in the Los Angeles area. Her father was a Los Angeles policeman and her mother worked nights at a post office after her parents divorced when Watson was seven.
In 1950 Watson graduated from Dorsey High School and obtained a bachelor’s degree in education from UCLA in 1956. Here she became friends and sorority sisters with fellow congresswoman Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Eleven years later, at California State University at Los Angeles, Watson received her master’s degree. Watson received a doctorate in education from Claremont Graduate University in 1986.
In 1956 Watson became a public school teacher in Los Angeles and worked up the ranks to assistant principal in 1969. During that time she held visiting teacher positions in France and Japan. By 1971 Watson worked as a Los Angeles Unified School District health education specialist where she focused on mental health issues among the district’s 500,000 students.
In 1975 Diane Watson became the first African American woman elected to a seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board. Elected during the height of the city’s school busing controversy, Watson became the leading proponent of court ordered busing to end racial segregation in the sprawling district.
Watson relinquished her seat on the School Board in 1978 to run for the California State Senate. In a year when Republicans swept most of the offices in the state, and Watson’s friend Yvonne Braithwaite Burke lost her campaign to become the state’s first African American Attorney General, Watson was elected with 70% of the vote. Watson, a staunch liberal, often found herself at odds with the legislature’s Republicans and often with more moderate Democrats. However she was extremely popular in her South Central Los Angeles District and held her seat until 1998.
After serving for two years as United States Ambassador to the Federated States of
New York historian Walt Bachman introduces Northern Slave, Black Dakota, his new biography of Joseph Godfrey, an African American who was born into slavery in the free territory that became Minnesota, fled from abusive masters to seek refuge among the Dakota Indians, and was a principal figure in the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.
My fascination with Joseph Godfrey arose from the investigation of a family story told to me by my grandfather when I was a teenager in Minneapolis in the 1950s. One of our ancestors, Grandpa said, had been killed in the largest Indian uprising in the American West, the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. A stone monument marked the scene of his killing, he added, and an excellent museum in New Ulm, Minnesota, had original accounts documenting the story of his death.
Not until many years later, after I retired from a career as a Minnesota trial lawyer, did I make the trek to New Ulm to check out this family story. There, a helpful librarian produced accounts relating to the killing of my ancestor in the small hamlet of Milford, six miles west of New Ulm, on August 18, 1862, the war’s first day.
The most helpful document was an emergency dispatch sent by the local sheriff to Minnesota’s Governor, Alexander Ramsey, late on the night of August 18. After describing the massacre of more than 50 men, women, and children at Milford, the sheriff ended his plea for reinforcements with these words: “It was, as I am informed, Wabashas band, a negro leading them, who committed the murders.” Other accounts described a black man wearing a breechclout and daubed with war paint at the scene where my ancestor was killed.
Who, I immediately wondered, was this mysterious black man? In a war that pitted aggrieved Dakota warriors against white settlers, why was he fighting on the Dakota side? In a new state whose small African American population was centered in St. Paul, what was he doing on the newly settled western frontier? Was he really the leader of the Dakota war party at Milford? My obsession with
The son of a postal worker and stay-at-home mother, Ashley Augustus Boone Jr. was born and raised in what he described as a “lower middle class” environment in Springfield, Massachusetts. His parents, nonetheless, recognized the primacy of education and, like his brother and two sisters who all finished college, Boone graduated with a degree in economics from Brandeis University in 1960.
Initially, he hoped to land a position at the World Bank improving the finances of underdeveloped nations, but upon graduation he sought employment in the entertainment industry and at television stations in New York City. Failing to get hired even as a page, he eventually found work at American Airlines.
Boone’s big break came two years later when his mentor, Robert S. Benjamin, a Brandeis trustee and co-chairman of the board of United Artists Corporation, offered him a job at United Artists as a trainee in the office of the vice president of production. Boone assisted the promotion of the multiple Academy Award-winning film, West Side Story. In 1964, he was made director of foreign advertising and publicity, traveling throughout Europe and for several months resided in Paris. In 1968 he moved to CBS-TV’s Cinema Center Films to hold executive posts in international sales. He subsequently worked as an associate producer at Sidney Poitier’s E & R Productions and for a year was an administrative assistant to Berry Gordy at Motown Records.
After a period of reflection, Boone took a job in sales at 20th Century Fox in 1972. After several promotions he was appointed president of distribution and marketing in 1979, supervising a staff of 450 persons, thus making him the highest-ranking African American executive in Hollywood. By then he had overseen successful campaigns promoting high-quality films and blockbusters like Star Wars, Sounder, Julia, Young Frankenstein, Turning Point, Alien, The Omen, High Anxiety, The Empire Strikes Back, and Chariots of Fire. In 1980 he was hired at the Ladd Company as vice president for
In February 2010, the military of Niger staged a coup and overthrew the government of President Mamadou Tandja, replacing him with a leader of their own choosing, Salou Djibo. A new government, deemed the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, was also formed. Djibo promised the people of his country a return to civilian rule and elections to choose a new leader, but he has not said when that event will occur. The overthrow of Tandja, a former military man himself, is evidence that many in Niger were deeply unhappy with his recent abolishment of presidential term limits, seeing it as a threat to the countrys young democracy. Tandja had been in office for over 10 years.
In the first round of 2011 presidential elections which saw 51.6% voter turnout, Mahamadou Issoufou of the Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS) won 36.2% of the vote while Seyni Oumarou of the National Movement for the Development of Society (MNSD) tallied 23.2%, triggering a runoff, which was held in March. After capturing 58% of the runoff vote, Mahamadou Issoufou assumed the presidential office. He appointed Brigi Rafini as prime minister.
See also Encyclopedia: Niger .
U.S. State Dept. Country Notes: Niger
SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Public Health today announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19.
As testing capacity continues to increase across the state, the California Department of Public Health is working to expand access to COVID-19 testing.
Individuals prioritized for testing include:
As of June 29, there have been 4,167,139 tests conducted in California and reported to the California Department of Public Health.
Racial Demographics – A More Complete Picture
The California Department of Public Health is committed to health equity and collecting more detailed racial and ethnic data that will provide additional understanding for determining future action.
Consolidated guidance is available on the California Department of Public Health’s Guidance web page.
Quotations from Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Toms Cabin and other novels and books. Learn more: Harriet Beecher Stowe Biography
• The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
• If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it
• Women are the real architects of society.
• So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
• I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist
• I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
• When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
• So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesnt somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
• Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be.
• The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
• Friendships are discovered rather than made.
• Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
• Although mothers bodily presence disappeared from our circle, I think that her memory and example had more influence in molding her family, in deterring from evil and exciting to good, than the living presence of many mothers.
It was a memory that met us everywhere; for every person in the town seemed to have been so impressed by her character and life that they constantly reflected some portion of it back
Ruth Simmons is the first African American to be named President of an Ivy League university. She is also the first African American woman to lead any major university in the United States. Simmons was sworn in as the 18th President of Brown University in autumn 2001 and the University’s first woman President.
Ruth Simmons was born in 1945 in Grapeland, Texas, the youngest of twelve children in a family of sharecroppers. Later in her life, when her family moved to Houston, her father worked in a factory and her mother worked as a maid. Simmons received her Bachelor’s Degree from Dillard University in 1967, graduating with honors. She then received both her M.A. and PhD. degrees in Romance Literature from Harvard University in 1970 and 1973. Simmons held administrative positions at the University of Southern California, beginning in 1979, first as assistant dean of graduate studies and then as associate dean of graduate studies. From 1983 to 1990, she served as a professor of romance languages at Princeton University, and became a dean of faculty there in 1986. After serving two years as provost of Spelman College (1990-1992), Simmons was named President of Smith College in 1995. While serving there, she initiated the first engineering program at any American women’s college.
In 2001, Simmons became President of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. During her presidency, she launched an initiative known as Boldly Brown: The Campaign for Academic Enrichment, which pledged $1.4 billion toward enhancing Brown’s academic programs. She also helped secure a number of high-profile donations to the school to develop various departments and the school’s scholarship programs. Additionally, she helped revise Brown’s admission policies to ensure that students of all income levels are considered on an equal basis. In 2003, Simmons established the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice to explore the university’s historical connection with the slave-trading industry. Simmons has been a particularly
BLACK AND ethnic minority voters in the US are actively being discouraged from voting, according...
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A white Florida man has been charged after pulling a gun on a Black homeowner, accusing the man of stealing a flyer from his own mailbox.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, on June 14, Fucheck drove by a Miami home and put his real estate flyer in a man’s mailbox.
After Fucheck drove away, the victim reportedly went to retrieve the real estate flyer from the mailbox.
Investigators say, Fucheck accused the victim of stealing his business flyer, although the man explained that he owned the home.
Fucheck pulled out his handgun and ordered the man to return the real estate flyer to him.
Nathaniel Wells, a former slave, plantation owner, and businessman who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries, was also the first person of African ancestry to become a High Sheriff in England. Wells was born on September 10, 1779 on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean to William Wells, a wealthy merchant and plantation owner, and one of his lovers, a slave known only as Juggy. William’s European wife had died shortly after his arrival in the West Indies and although he never married any of his slaves, it is recorded that he had relationships with several. Records show that he treated the women with whom he had relationships and his children well. Nathaniel was the oldest of at least six children all by various different mothers.
In 1783 William Wells freed his son and later sent him to school in England with aspirations that he might attend Oxford University. When his father died however, Wells inherited his lands and property, including the slaves, and chose not to attend university. In 1803 Wells moved to Bath, England and later purchased a plot of land (2,200 acres) near Chepstow.
Wells became active in local society. He became a Church Warden of St. Arvan’s Church and a Justice of the Peace. Most notably Wells became a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Monmouthshire and was appointed High Sherriff of Monmouthshire in 1818, a position in which he served until 1830.
In 1820 Wells was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Chepstow Troop of the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. His commission makes him the second man of African ancestry to hold a commission in the armed forces of the Crown. During his military service Wells took part in the breaking of the picket lines during the coal miner’s strikes in Wales in 1822. At the end of 1822, after the striking miners and iron workers had been broken by force, Wells resigned his commission.
In 1833 when slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire, Wells, along with many other plantation owners, illegally retained his slaves. The slave owners were
Foot Locker Is Rocking The Vote By Turning All Of Its U.S. Stores Into Voter Registration Sites
Royce White still hasn’t gotten full credit for pushing the NBA to recognize the importance of its players’ mental health and wellness.
John Lucas said that year in a five-part ESPN series that over 40% of NBA players have mental health issues, and this was not disputed by the league.
Later, the NBA started a mental health program, named its director, and included in the new CBA mental wellness procedures to help players deal with mental health issues.
But years earlier White, who was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) as a teenager, wanted Houston, who drafted him 16th overall in 2012, to put in his contract accommodations for his condition, including taking buses to road games rather than flying.
Treating mental disorders still isn’t like treating a knee injury or something that can easily be seen, but White was on the mental health soapbox long before it became fashionable to speak openly about it.
Tina Knowles-Lawson has teamed up with African Pride to increase Black voter turnout.
So the idea was that if Black people spent their money at Black businesses and divested from white institutions, it would help generate Black wealth.
And the idea has been championed by everyone from Booker T. Washington to Marcus Garvey to Malcolm X. Even in Martin Luther King's famous \"Been To The Mountaintop\" speech - literally the one he gave the day before he was killed - he was urging Black people in Memphis to take their money out of white-run banks and insurance companies and invest that money in those in town that were run by Black folks.
I mean, the calls for people to buy from Black businesses are particularly loud right now.
That's why so many corporations might feel compelled to make statements expressing support for Black lives and Black businesses right now, even if those corporations have, let's say, spotty records on justice and fairness.
And all this thinking about how Black people should be spending their money and investing in Black businesses rests against this notion that Black people individually and collectively don't spend their money wisely or effectively.
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubakar Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse have been arrested by mutinying soldiers, according to reports. This came hours after soldiers took up arms and staged a mutiny at a key base in Kati, a town close to the capital, Bamako Tuesday morning. 'We can tell you that the president and the...
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Livening up sport without fans is a challenge for competitions returning after the coronavirus, and organisers have tried several ways to make empty stadiums more appealing.
A South Korean football club FC Seoul received a record fine for using sex dolls to fill seats.
Much controversy has been generated by South Korea's FC Seoul, who received a 100 million won ($81,000) fine -- the biggest in K-League history -- for placing sex dolls in their stadium.
South Korean baseball has also taken a high-tech approach with fans beamed onto a stadium big screen as they watch the game online.
Baseball cheerleaders in Taiwan have been carrying out live interactions with fans from the stadiums, chatting and broadcasting dance routines over their mobile phones.
Writer and political activist Mariama Ba was born in1929 in Dakar, Senegal to a well-to-dofamily. Her father worked in the Frenchcolonial administration and in 1956 became the Minister of Health ofSenegal. Her mother died when she wasyoung. Ba was raised by her maternalgrandparents who emphasized conservative Muslim values. She attended a religious school, but was alsoeducated in the French tradition. Due tothe intervention of her father, she was enrolled in 1943 in the Ecole Normale (Teacher Training School)at Rufisque, a town some 25 miles away from Dakar where she received her diploma in1947. Ba worked as a teacher from 1947to 1959, before becoming an academic inspector. During this period, Ba had nine children with her husband, Obeye Diop. The couple separated and Ba was forced toraise her children as a single parent.
By the late 1970s, after most of her children wereadult, Ba turned to political activity. She became a vocal activist for womens rights in Africaand a critic of the neocolonial system that had evolved in most of the newlyindependent African nations. She wasalso concerned with and wrote about a number of feminist issues such as polygamy,mistreatment of women in Senegalese society, ostracism of the castes, the exploitationof women, violence against women, and lack of educational opportunities forgirls.
Her first and most significant novel, UneSi Longue Lettre (So Long a Letter)was published in 1979. It stands as alandmark of African and Francophone literature which received widespread criticalacclaim as well as the Noma Prize for African Literature. Her novel has beentranslated into numerous languages and is a staple of francophone literaturecourses worldwide. So Long a Letter is an epistolary novel, written in the formof a letter from a widow to a friend who lives in the United Statesfollowing the death of her husband. Thewidow grapples with her polygamous situation as well as the rise ofmodernity and Westernization. She recountsthat, despite the fact that her husband has
Biden has already had an advantage with Black voters in the primary elections, especially over his former opponent Bernie Sanders.
Biden swept the Black vote in states like South Carolina, while Sanders lost them by a large margin.
Biden is still liable to run into this same issue now that he’s going against Donald Trump in the general elections.
Although Black votes were generally low for Trump during the 2016 elections, Black voter turnout rates dipped for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, according to the United States Census Bureau.
Black women came out in strong support for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 elections against Trump, according to exit polls.
With Republican-led voter suppression efforts ramped up, one could make a legal argument of gross negligence about our election system. But can anyone prove it?
In the following article Professor Malik Simba, an historian at California State University, Fresno describes his professional and personal odyssey that led to the writing of his book, Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: From the Colonial Background through the Ascendancy of Barack Obama and the Dilemma of Black Lives Matter (Third Edition).
I am a Marxist historian. I use Marxist analysis, which argues that class struggle is the locomotion of history. That theory, I believe, facilitates a critical understanding of the American Constitution and the American legal system and is the analysis which informs the writing of my book, Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: From the Colonial Background through the Ascendancy of Barack Obama and the Dilemma of Black Lives Matter. I embrace Marxist analysis because I believe it best answers critical questions about the nature of American law and the American judicial system which affect the lives of thousands of African Americans on a daily basis. My embrace of Marxian analysis evolved from my own reading and study of Marxist and non-Marxist texts on history, American constitutionalism, and the American judicial system. It also grew from a series of experiences over my life that have led me to question the commitment of the American legal system to equal justice for all.
I have always been fascinated with the concept of justice and equality. I was born in Lexington, Kentucky in the era of overt racial segregation. I can still remember my when my mother stood protectively close to my siblings and me whenever we went downtown because she knew we would be subject to verbal assault by white shoppers and store owners. When we moved to Denver, Colorado in 1954 my family entered a city which supposedly had avoided the racial discrimination and violence that marked Kentucky and the rest of the South. Nonetheless, I still vividly recall my first encounter with racist police when I was 12 years old. That encounter was intimidating and violent.
While
