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New York City moved closer to electing its second-ever Black mayor after Eric Adams was on Tuesday night declared the winner of last month's Democratic primary.
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
Educator, newspaper publisher and politician John Quincy Adams is best known as the editor of the Western Appeal/The Appeal of St. Paul, Minnesota. He held the position from 1886 to 1922.
John Quincy Adams was born free in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 4, 1848, to the Reverend Henry and Margaret Priscilla Adams (née Corbin). He was one of four children. Adams attended private academies in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and Yellow Springs, Ohio, and graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio. He then moved to Arkansas where he taught in schools in Little Rock before taking a position assisting his uncle, Joseph C. Corbin, who was Arkansas’ Superintendent of Public Instruction. Between 1870 and 1876 he also was involved in Republican Party politics and served as Engrossing Clerk in the state senate and as Deputy Commissioner of Public Works.
Between 1876 and 1886 Adams lived in Louisville, Kentucky, where he taught school and was engaged in Republican Party politics at the state and national levels, serving as Ganger and Storekeeper in the United States Revenue Service. He lost that appointment with the election of Grover Cleveland in 1884. During that period, he and his brother Cyrus Field Adams published the weekly Louisville Bulletin between1879 and 1886. In 1880 Adams was responsible for convening the first Colored National Press Convention and was elected its first president, a position that he held for two years.
In 1886 he sold the Bulletin and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he became associate editor, editor and later owner of The Western Appeal between 1886 and 1922. Adams transformed it into a national newspaper with offices in Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, and Washington, D.C., and he changed its name to The Appeal in 1889 to reduce its identity as a Midwestern press.
Adams’ newspaper in St. Paul became the center of political activism in the upper Midwest, challenging the “color line” that continued in Minnesota after the Civil War. He partnered with Fredrick L. McGhee, a young African American
Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass. daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17, when she was a teacher in rural New York state, she agitated for equal pay for women teachers, for coeducation, and for college training for girls. When the Sons of Temperance refused to admit women into their movement, she organized the first womans temperance association, the Daughters of Temperance.
At a temperance meeting in 1851 she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton , and from that time until Stantons death in 1902 they were associated as the leaders of the womans movement in the United States and were bound by a warm personal friendship. Susan B. Anthony lectured (1851–60) on womens rights and on abolition, and, with Stanton, secured the first laws in the New York state legislature guaranteeing to women rights over their children and control of property and wages. In 1863 she was a coorganizer of the Womens Loyal League to support Lincolns government, especially his emancipation policy. After the Civil War she opposed granting suffrage to freedmen without also giving it to women, and many woman-suffrage sympathizers broke with her on this issue.
She and Stanton organized (1869) the National Woman Suffrage Association. In 1890 this group united with the American Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association, of which Anthony was president from 1892 to 1900. In 1872 she led a group of women to the polls in Rochester, N.Y., to test the right of women to the franchise under the terms of the Fourteenth Amendment. Her arrest, trial, and sentence to a fine (which she refused to pay) were a cause célèbre other women followed her example until the case was decided against them by the U.S. Supreme Court.
From 1869 she traveled and lectured throughout the United States and Europe, seeing the feminist movement gradually advance to respectability and political importance. The secret of her
Elizbeth Helm-Fraizer, US Army
As the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of WWII’s Allied victory in Europe and navigates the COVID-19 pandemic, we celebrate these Six Triple Eight veterans’ birthdays and a COVID-19 survivor.
Due to the efforts of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. Mary McCleod Bethune to integrate African-American women into the war effort, in February 1945, the “Six Triple Eight” deployed to Europe as the only all African-American WAC unit sent overseas.
On November 30, 2018 at Fort Leavenworth, KS, five living Six Triple Eight veterans and the family of a deceased 6888th veteran, Vashti Murphy, daughter of AFRO publisher Dr. Carl J. Murphy, attended the unit’s monument dedication In February 2019, the Secretary of the Army awarded the Six Triple Eight the Meritorious Unit Commendation, their only military award for meritorious service.
In March 2019, Lincoln Penny Films premiered an award winning documentary about the unit featuring seven living 6888th veterans and AFRO Manager, MAJ (Ret.)
Edgar Brookins, recognition of the Six Triple Eight’s service and contributions to our country, some members of Congress agree that they deserve The Congressional Gold Medal—one of the nation’s highest civilian awards.
NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to the provisions of the Fictitious Names Registration Act of Florida (Chapter 50, Florida Statutes) that an application for registration of a fictitious name will be filed in the office of the Florida Department of State, for the conduct of a business under the fictitious name of APLUS EBOOKS PUBLICATIONS, with its principal office or place of business at P.O. Box 618757, in Orange County, Florida.
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and RYAN FOLEY Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Arguments over mask requirements and other restrictions have turned ugly in recent days as the deadly coronavirus surge across the U.S. engulfs small and medium-size cities that once seemed at a safe remove from the outbreak. In Boise, Idaho, public health officials about to vote on a four-county mask mandate abruptly ended a meeting Tuesday evening because of fears for their safety amid anti-mask protests outside the building and at some of their homes. One health board member tearfully announced she had to rush home to be […]
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Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney and the face of his longshot legal challenges to overturn the presidential election results, has been hospitalized after testing positive for Covid-19. The 76-year-old former New York mayor was admitted to Georgetown University Hospital on Sunday, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN. Giuliani appeared to confirm his positive diagnosis, hours […]
Art has always been a passion of Reginald Adams. From doodling comic book characters on the walls of his childhood bedroom, to dropping out of Texas A&M University his freshman year because his major of accounting was unfulfilling – Adams knew he was destined for a career in the arts. Now, that love of art […]
By Karen Matthews | Associated Press NEW YORK — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City after appealing to the political center and promising to strike the right balance between fighting crime and ending racial injustice in policing. A former police captain, Adams would be the […]
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It was in May 1824 that Nancy Gardner Prince, rescued from alife of poverty and hardship in Massachusetts through a recent marriage, foundherself in a most surreal circumstance unlike any previously experienced by anAfrican American in this region of the world. After recently arriving in St,Petersburg, the capital of Imperial Russia, she found herself calmly strollingdown magnificent hallways, attentive guards acknowledging her presence. Nancyand her husband passed through doors of the royal palace on their way to keepan appointment with Czar Alexander I,the ruler of the largest nation in the world.
For other talented and enterprising African Americans whofollowed, Russia, though a culturally and physically distant and far lesstraveled destination, offered opportunities not readily available to themelsewhere. Though mostly visitors and temporary residents, these blacksojourners nonetheless felt acceptance and appreciated their stay in Russiawhich they saw as a distant refuge from the daily humiliations that theyroutinely faced in the United States. Through their travels and experiences half a world away they helped toshape an image of and interest in Russia and the Soviet Union that would informthe views of this land, its people, history and culture for millions of AfricanAmericans who would never travel there.
The earliest we hear of Americans of African descent inRussia occurs in the late 1700s when unnamed black sailors, common on Americanships sailing abroad then, were mentioned as members of the crews whose vesselsdocked at Russian ports. In 1809,a manservant known simply as “Nelson” accompanied the family of futureU.S. President John Quincy Adams when he traveled to St. Petersburg as U. S.Ambassador. A year later, Adams permitted Nelson to be employed in the serviceof Czar Nicholas I along with Alexander Gabriel, an AWOL ship’s cook whom theczar impulsively plucked out of a crowd in the Baltic port city ofKronstadt.
A stalwart campaigner for the Republican Party, in July1898, Philadelphia-born
On Sunday 14 November, Professor Basil Wilson (retired provost of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City) moderated this special session with Sir Hilary Beckles, 8th Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is a distinguished academic, international thought leader, United Nations committee official, and global public activist in the field of social justice and minority empowerment.
By 1857 “Bleeding Kansas’ and the Dred Scott Decision had intensified sectional tensions over slavery and moved the nation closer to civil war. Against that backdrop, Charles Lenox Remond, on July 10, 1857, addressed the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society where he joined a growing chorus of abolitionists led by William Lloyd Garrison who called the dissolution of the Union with slaveholders. His address appears below.
Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen: I hardly need inform those who are gathered together here to-day, that I take some satisfaction in responding to the kind invitation of the Committee of Massachusetts A. S. Society, for more reasons, perhaps, than would at first appear to many who are present. We have been informed, by the gentleman who preceded our respected president (Mr. Jackson), that this is a repetition of eighty years’ standing of the demonstration of the American people on the side of liberty and independence. The reason why I, above all others, take pleasure in coming to this platform, is not to exhibit, if I may so express myself, the commonplace idea of a colored man’s speaking in public, nor is it the grateful associations that may appear to other minds, on another account, or for other reasons, but it is that I may have the satisfaction of saying, in a word, that I hold all demonstrations on this day, outside of the gatherings similar to the one of which we form a part, as so many mockeries and insults to a large number of our fellow-countrymen. To-day there are, on the Southern plantations, between three and four millions, to whom the popular Fourth of July in the United States of America is a most palpable insult; and to every white American who has any sympathy whatever with the oppressed, the day is also a mockery. Why, sir, I have been informed, since I came into this grove, that on this platform sit one or two men recently from Virginia, known and owned there as slaves. I ask you, Mr. Chairman, and I ask this audience, what must be the emotion of these men, who are now on
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer On a Saturday afternoon in March as COVID-19 was bearing down on New York City, a dozen scientists anxiously crowded around a computer in a suburban drug company's lab. They had spent weeks frantically getting blood from early survivors across the globe and from mice with human-like immune systems — all to test thousands of potential treatments. Now it was time for results. The screen flashed totals of glowing green dots, hundreds or thousands in most samples. Then they saw some 10s, some twos and finally, zeroes. The researchers cheered and their boss […]
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