Eric Adams Moves Closer To Becoming Second-Ever Black Mayor Of NYC

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Eric Adams Moves Closer To Becoming Second-Ever Black Mayor Of NYC

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.

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“Embrace the path that you lead and enjoy the battle,” said Adams who, in 2015, became the vice president (US) for the International Tennis Federation (ITF), executive director of the Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program and chairman of the Fed Cup known as the World Cup of Tennis.

“A friend told me about Mount Sinai asking for people who have recovered from COVID-19 to volunteer to be screened for the antibodies,” said Adams, who did not hesitate to fill out the Mount Sinai COVID-19 Plasma Donation.

Within 48 hours, it was confirmed that Adams’ antibodies were high, and she qualified to be a donor.

“The most common way to test right now is with a finger stick for a tiny drop of blood with a lateral flow or lateral slide test or also the ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay) test that measures antibodies in your blood,” said Dr. Shawn Nasseri, a Mayo Clinic-trained ear, nose and throat surgeon.

“However, I would also caution that these tests have a 10% to 20% chance that the antibodies it detects may be from another cold like one of the regular coronaviruses which are 10% of all colds in the U.S.”

Despite her clean bill of health, Adams remains isolated, wears a mask and gloves when taking long walks and shopping for essentials.

Samuel Clifford Adams, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Niger was born in Waco, Texas on August 15, 1920, to Samuel Clifford Adams and Sarah Catherine (née Roberts) Adams. He grew up in the Fourth Ward section of Houston, Texas.

In 1936 Adams graduated as valedictorian of Booker T. Washington High School in Houston. He won a scholarship to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he intended to study music. Charles Johnson, the president of Fisk University, however, influenced him to switch his major to sociology. Adams worked in the summers at the Henry Ford Trade School in Detroit, Michigan as a machinist to pay for school.

Adams received a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Sociology from Fisk University in 1938. He then began a doctoral program at the University of Chicago in Illinois. When World War II began, however, Adams worked as a civilian at the Norfolk Navy Yard. Because he experienced discrimination in the Navy Yard, he volunteered for the Army Air Corps and was transferred to Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, where he served as a chaplain’s assistant. There he worked to improve conditions for African Americans on the base. In 1946, Adams received the Meritorious Service Award from the Army Air Corps.

In September 1952, Adams joined the Economic Cooperation Administration, the predecessor of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He served as an education advisor for the U.S. Special Technical and Economic Mission to Indochina. When he lived in Saigon, he spent time with a local Vietnamese family and learned French and Vietnamese. Meanwhile Adams completed his Ph.D. in 1953 at the University of Chicago.

In 1955, Adams became chief of the Office of Education of the International Cooperation Administration. While in that position he traveled to Cambodia where in 1956 he became one of the first Americans to see the famous ruins at Angkor Wat. He was also the first American decorated by the King of Cambodia for his role in supporting education in that nation.

[Monitor] When the government electoral reform Bills were passed in March, the proposed Opposition constitutional amendments were left for the House to deal with ahead of the 2021 General Election.

La Amistad (pronounced [la a.misˈtað]; Spanish for Friendship) was a 19th-century two-masted schooner, owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives, who had been enslaved in Sierra Leone, and were being transported from Havana, Cuba to their purchasers plantations.[1] The African captives took control of the ship, killing some of the crew and ordering the survivors to sail the ship to Africa. The Spanish survivors secretly maneuvered the ship north, and La Amistad was captured off the coast of Long Island by the brig USS Washington. The Mende and La Amistad were interned in Connecticut while federal court proceedings were undertaken for their disposition. The owners of the ship and Spanish government claimed the slaves as property; but the US had banned the African trade and argued that the Mende were legally free.

Because of issues of ownership and jurisdiction, the case gained international attention. Known as United States v. The Amistad (1841), the case was finally decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in favor of the Mende, restoring their freedom. It became a symbol in the United States in the movement to abolish slavery.

La Amistad was a 19th-century two-masted schooner of about 120 feet (37 m). By 1839 the schooner was owned by a Spaniard captain, Don Ramon Ferrer.[2] Strictly speaking, La Amistad was not a slave ship as it was not designed to transport large cargoes of slaves, nor did it engage in the Middle Passage of Africans to the Americas. The ship engaged in the shorter, coastwise trade around Cuba and in the Caribbean. The primary cargo carried by La Amistad was sugar-industry products. It carried a limited number of passengers and, on occasion, slaves being transported for delivery or sale.[citation needed]

Captained by Ferrer, Amistad left Havana on 28 June 1839 for the small port of Guanaja, near Puerto Principe, Cuba, with some general cargo and 53 slaves

Republicans in Georgia’s state Senate have introduced a raft of voting legislation, moving quickly to seek new limitations and requirements after Democrats won the presidential election and two U.S. Senate runoffs in the once reliably red state. Democrats say the bills are unnecessary, politically motivated and will suppress legal votes. Many of the proposals target absentee voting by mail, after […]

Kentucky voters turned out in record numbers for the primary election Tuesday, even as the threat of the novel coronavirus pandemic lingered, thanks to a hotly contested Democratic Senate race and an expanded vote-by-mail program, which generated unprecedented enthusiasm in Bluegrass State politics.

The Democratic Senate primary between progressive state Rep. Charles Booker and retired Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath drove voters out in numbers Kentucky hasn’t seen since 920,000 people cast ballots in the 2008 presidential primary fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Lexington and Louisville both offered free public transit shuttles to polling locations, but the reliance on solitary voting centers still made it more difficult for voters with limited transportation options to vote ― a fact Kentucky needs to reckon with even if there is no clear and intentional effort to suppress the vote.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to acknowledge for the first time that

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By ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former president Donald Trump announced a new impeachment legal defense team Sunday, one day after it was revealed that he had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys with just over a week to go before his Senate trial. The two representing Trump will be defense lawyer David Schoen, a frequent television legal commentator, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney in Pennsylvania who has faced criticism for his decision to not charge actor Bill Cosby in a sex crimes case. Both attorneys issued statements through Trump's office […]

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Historian Carl Adams has written a dramatic true account of Nance’s three trials for freedom, a story which also bolsters Lincoln’s reputation as a long-standing enemy of slavery.

Adams’ book, Nance: Trials of the First Slave Freed by Abraham Lincoln has just been honored with the Illinois State Historical Society Award of Merit for Scholarship and Creativity.

The Cromwell estate sued for payment, and Bailey hired Lincoln to appeal to the Supreme Court in the fall of 1839 to have the contract for Nance void.

The three Nance Supreme Court trials tested, defined and ultimately broke indentured servitude in the state, which knelled the end of slavery in Illinois at a time when it was extremely important in national politics.

Adams: This Lincoln took on the case for Nance’s freedom in 1839, twelve years after Nance’s first appeal and four denials.

Eric Adams now stands on the brink of becoming only the second African American to lead the biggest city in America.

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Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown has indicated that she is about to seek intervention from Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding to have political candidates and supporters remove campaign paraphernalia still on display over three months after the September 3, 2020 General Elections, which is a breach of the political code of conduct.

Newly appointed Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding sent a strong message to the Holness administration on Tuesday, warning that he would keep the Government in check and be fearless in reining in corruption and malfeasance. Golding, 55,...

Dr Peter Phillips has admitted that his failed attempt more than a decade ago to wrest control of the People’s National Party (PNP) from then President Portia Simpson Miller was ill-advised. And, while the PNP continues the search for answers for...

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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Crusader Staff Report North Township Trustee Frank J. Mrvan cruised to victory in the General Election on Tuesday, November 3. He now succeeds longtime Congressman Pete Visclosky in the First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, which includes Gary. In the latest election results, Mrvan received 99,697 votes, taking 60.90 percent of the […]

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891[1] [2] – January 28, 1960) was an African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist known for her contributions to African-American literature, her portrayal of racial struggles in the American South, and works documenting her research on Haitian voodoo.[3] Of Hurstons four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved to Eatonville, Florida, with her family in 1894. Eatonville would become the setting for many of her stories and is now the site of the Zora! Festival, held each year in Hurstons honor.[4] In her early career, Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic research while attending Barnard College.[5] While in New York she became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Her short satires, drawing from the African-American experience and racial division, were published in anthologies such as The New Negro and Fire!!.[6] After moving back to Florida, Hurston published her literary anthropology on African-American folklore in North Florida, Mules and Men (1935) and her first three novels: Jonahs Gourd Vine (1934); Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937); and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939). Also published during this time was Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938), documenting her research on rituals in Jamaica and Haiti.

Hurstons works touched on the African-American experience and her struggles as an African-American woman. Her novels went relatively unrecognized by the literary world for decades, but interest revived after author Alice Walker published In Search of Zora Neale Hurston in the March 1975 issue of Ms. Magazine. Hurstons manuscript Every Tongue Got to Confess (2001), a collection of folktales gathered in the 1920s, was published posthumously after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives.

Grambling State University was founded in 1901 in Grambling, Louisiana. In the post- Civil War effort to build schools for former African American slaves, several colleges were established in Louisiana. All of them were concentrated in the more populous southern portion of the state including Leland College, Straight University, and New Orleans University in New Orleans, and Southern University in Baton Rouge. There were almost no educational facilities for African Americans in the northern and western parts of the state. In 1896 a group of blacks from that area led by Lafayette Richmond organized the North Louisiana Colored Agricultural Relief Association. One of the organizations objectives was to establish an industrial school for local boys and girls.

The association purchased 23 acres of land from John Monk in 1888 and began construction of the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School of Lincoln Parish. After two school terms, they wrote to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama for advice and assistance. In response Washington in 1901 sent Charles P. Adams, a recent graduate of Tuskegee, to help organize the school. Adams became its first president and focused on both the immediate and future needs of his new students. Following the Tuskegee model he advocated practical education in farming, home improvement, and property accumulation, as well as reading, writing, and math.

By 1928 the school had been renamed Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute, and was a state junior college, offering two-year professional certificates and diplomas. The first baccalaureate degree was granted in 1944. The institution, which changed its name to Grambling College in 1946, was accredited in 1949 and in the early 1950s became a full member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In 1974 Grambling College became Grambling State University.

Today Grambling State is a public, coeducational university with 4,754 undergraduate and 407 graduate students. It provides almost 70

Thousands of President Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as Vice President Mike Pence presided over the Electoral College vote, shoving Capitol police who attempted to beat back the mob by unleashing pepper spray.

In 1827 Rev. Nathaniel Paul, a minister in Albany, New York, hails the final abolition of slavery in that state. His address given on July 5, 1827 in Albany marks that occassion. The address appears below.

We look forward with pleasing anticipation to that period, when it shall no longer be said that in a land of freemen there are men in bondage, but when this foul stain will be entirely erased, and this, worst of evils, will be forever done way. The progress of emancipation, though slow, is nevertheless certain: It is certain, because that God who has made of one blood all nations of men, and who is said to be no respecter of persons, has so decreed; I therefore have no hesitation in declaring this sacred place, that not only throughout the United States of America, but throughout every part of the habitable world where slavery exists, it will be abolished. However great may be the opposition of those who are supported by the traffic, yet slavery will cease. The lordly planter who has his thousands in bondage, may stretch himself upon his couch of ivory, and sneer at the exertions which are made by the humane and benevolent, or he may take his stand upon the floor of Congress, and mock the pitiful generosity of the east or west for daring to meddle with the subject, and attempting to expose its injustice: he may threaten to resist all efforts for a general or a partial emancipation even to a dissolution of the union. But still I declare that slavery will be extinct; a universal and not a partial emancipation must take place; nor is the period far distant. The indefatigable exertions of the philanthropists in England to have it abolished in their West India Islands, the recent revolutions in South America, the catastrope and exchange of power in the Isle of Hayti, the restless disposition of both master and slave in the southern states, the constitution of our government, the effects of literary and moral instruction, the generous feelings of the pious and benevolent, the influence and spread of the holy

In the following article Ginger Adams Otis, a staff writer at the New York Daily News and a longtime city reporter, describes her more-than-decade-long research following the evolution of a landmark civil rights case brought by the Vulcan Society, a determined group of activist black New York City firefighters. In 2005 the Vulcan Society sued the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) and the then-Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, for racial discrimination. The lawsuit was settled in the Vulcans’ favor in 2010. It took until 2013, however, for hiring to begin again. At the same time, the city and FDNY challenged the part of the ruling that found them guilty of intentional discrimination. The parties were getting ready to take that particular claim to trial again when Mayor Bill De Blasio came to power in 2014. Within three months, the city reached an accord with the Vulcans to settle the intentional discrimination lawsuit. While following the case, Adams discovered the incredible stories of the first African Americans who joined the fire department, beginning with William Nicholson who joined the department in 1889. Otis wrote Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest to describe the history of black firemen in the New York City Fire Department.

In 2004 my first regular reporting gig for a newspaper in New York City, New York was for a century-old broadsheet known as The Chief-Leader. Owned by the same family since the early 1900s, The Chief, as it was called, dedicated itself to covering the city’s municipal workforce. My job was to report on all things related to the Fire Department of New York (FDNY).

On my first day, my boss tossed a press release on my desk and told me to get moving. A group of black firefighters known as the Vulcan Society, which I had never heard of before, was going to be holding a press conference on the steps of City Hall. Intrigued, I picked up a notepad, grabbed a pen, and took off.

The Brooklyn borough president maintained his lead after absentee ballots were counted.

In an address to women of the graduating class of the Colored High School in Washington, D.C. on June 6th 1884, Rev. Alexander Crummell urges them to put their intellect and their education in the service of racial advancement. The address appears below.

Young Ladies: Two nations of antiquity have often in your school life been brought before you, distin¬guished respectively, the one for excellence and the other for practicality. The Greeks stand for in human history pre eminently as the type of culture and refine¬ment. The Romans, down to our day, are the standard of the practical, the people who surpassed all others in the expression of the principle of utility.

These two ideas may be taken as representing the two prime ends of human training and education.

You are now on your passage from the High School to the broader field and the more responsible duties of the Normal School. So well have you acquitted your¬selves in this lower plane of study that the officers of these schools are glad to tender you the cordial invita¬tion “Come up higher! And so the doors of a higher Academy stand open before you, its accom¬plished Principal both anxious and ready to welcome you. And here you will find the many facilities for gaining a wider acquaintance and a more advanced civilization.

At just this stage of life it seems to me both fit and advisable, to call your attention to the fact, that excellence and utility are the special objects of your school life; and also to point out to you their relative place and importance.

I shall dwell but briefly upon the principle of utility, for the reason that it is not just now the immediate end of your training. There is a time for everything, and the wisdom of man in all ages has made youth the time of preparation as a means to a distant end.

If we wish to make our existence a full, complete, and rounded thing it becomes us to have everything in its own order. School life is first in order, a preparatory stage, which is both designed and fitted to reach over to active duty,

Yolanda Adams appeared on the debut of OWN‘s new talk show “Girlfriends Check In” on Saturday and spilled the beans on one of her celebrity crushes.

Fellow gospel singers Erica Campbell of Mary Mary, Tasha Cobbs Leonard and Tamela Mann appeared alongside Adams virtually on the show’s first episode and the topic of celebrity crushes came up.

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The Grammy-winner, who was label-mates with the Brooklyn rapper, explained an encounter with him during a meeting with a label executive in the late 1990s.

Adams explained that Busta Rhymes’ “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See” was a hit at the time as she mimicked the lyrics.