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Cairo's drum festival opened this week, bringing together around 40 folkloric troupes from around the world.
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President of the Jamaica Coffee Exporters Association (JCEA)Norman Grant is seeking Government intervention to the tune of $200 million for a recovery programme for the country's coffee farmers.According to Grant, during a recent meeting of the JCEA, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green committed to contributing $80 million to the coffee recovery programme through the Jamaica Agricultural Commodity Regulatory Authority.
This coming June, Los Angeles will play host to the anticipated awards program with a vaccinated-only live audience.
When it comes to who may inherit Ellen DeGeneres's talk show crown, Gayle King is giving a thumbs-up for Tiffany Haddish. "I think that could be fun. That
African government officials and public figures have called out Western investors for keeping borrowing unfairly high due to prejudice.
For months now, soon-to-be-Former President Donald Trump has called into question the democratic process that lies at the heart of our representative democracy. He has been joined in this scurrilous attack on the nation's electoral process by fellow Republican lawmakers who seem to be more loyal to him than to the nation. In deciding the […]
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle plan to spend their first Christmas in their new Montecito home, then return to Frogmore Cottage in January.
New Repertory Theatre has commissioned two new plays by local female playwrights of color in the theater company’s continued mission to support diverse voices and keep theater talent working during the pandemic. Dubbed the “Showstopper Virtual Play Series,” the double premiere features “A Very Herrera Holiday” by Alexis Scheer and “[keyp-ing]” by Miranda Austen ADEkoje in one dynamic 75-minute performance running through Dec. 13.
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WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 12: Rain falls on the White Home 9 days after the presidential … [+] election November 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)…
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – The Congressional Black Caucus has introduced “The Justice in Policing Act of 2020,” legislation designed to make the nation’s police more accountable to the nation’s citizens, especially its black citizens, in the wake of the brutal in police custody death of George Floyd.
LISTING THE NAMES OF BLACKS KILLED BY POLICE
Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, called the out the names of other unarmed black men and women killed by police.
Bass (D., California) said the names of several victims before asking other members of the CBC to shout out the names of other black men and black women killed by police.
In the wake of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s murders, we must ask ourselves: how many more times must our families and our communities be put through the trauma of an unarmed black man or a woman’s killing at the hands of police who are sworn to protect and serve them?
U.S. POLICE KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN POLICE IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY
The CBC introduced the legislation on Monday, June 15, the same day it was reported that U.S. police kill more people than in any other developed country.
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - Most Republican lawmakers have yet to acknowledge Joe Biden as America's next leader, a departure from political norms that suggests President Donald Trump retains an iron grip on his congressional flock.
After 26 years on the run, on May 16, French authorities revealed that genocide architect Felicien Kabuga had been arrested in Paris, France.
According to a statement released after the arrest, the elusive suspect was arrested by French authorities as a result of a joint investigation with the IRMCT (International Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals) Office of the Prosecutor and other law enforcement and prosecution services from various countries including Rwanda.
Kabuga , who is now aged 85, was indicted by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1997 on seven counts of genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, attempt to commit genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, persecution, and extermination, all in relation to crimes committed during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
It is good that Felicien Kabuga was arrested because it would be absurd to know that he is freely roaming around when everyone knows how he financed the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi that claimed over a million lives.
Valerie Mukabayire, President of Avega Agahozo, a national association of widows of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi
Kabuga was a key player in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, and his acts made contributed a lot to the genocide.
Within the gamer world, a Mexican video game developer wants to compete against the Japanese, European and American game companies. “Lienzo is a video-game development studio located in Chihuahua, Mexico. We create experiences with the [...]
Persuading Black voters to vote despite the pandemic — coupled with the same obstacles that kept Black voting down in 2016 — rendered a numerically flat turnout a victory, local activists said.
U.S. Ambassador Orison Rudolph Aggrey was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, the son of James Emman Kwegyir, an African immigrant who became an American college professor, and Rose Rudolph (Douglass) Aggrey, an African American woman. He earned a B.S. degree from Hampton Institute, where he graduated as valedictorian in 1946, and an M.S. in journalism from Syracuse University (New York) in 1948. After encountering difficulty in obtaining a reporting post with a major white daily newspaper in 1950, he applied for a position with the information and cultural branch of the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. Despite his high scores on the Civil Service entrance examinations, he also encountered difficulty with his application. Aggrey was offered a post only after George L. P. Weaver, who was then assistant Secretary of Labor for international affairs (and one of the most important blacks in the administration of President Harry S. Truman), interceded on his behalf.
Aggreys first assignment took him to Lagos, Nigeria where he was information officer in the U.S. Information Service office. On many occasions Aggrey, the second highest ranking person in the office, actually ran the mission. Ironically, at the same time that Aggrey acquired the Lagos post, he received an offer to join the staff of a Providence, Rhode Island daily newspaper, but he chose to remain in the foreign service.
After two years in Lagos, Aggrey returned to the United States and requested a new assignment in France. In France, he was placed second in command at the U.S. Information Service mission at Lille, in the northern part of the country. Shortly afterward he arrived, the man in charge of the office was transferred to Hanoi, North Vietnam. Again, unexpectedly, Aggrey was left in charge of a foreign mission. During this tenure, however, the head of the Information Service visited the Lille mission, while on a tour of facilities in France. He was so impressed with the interest in U.S. cultural programs which Aggrey had fostered among
“Downtown Crossing,” a world premiere theater performance written by David Valdes and produced by Company One Theatre hits the virtual stage on Oct. 22. Streaming live (and for free) for five performances, the play explores the experience of undocumented immigrants in Boston.
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“Witness: Spirituals and the Classical Music Tradition,” a collaboration between Castle of Our Skins and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, explores the beauty and power of African American spirituals through a classical lens.
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The officers were shot by a suspect as they approached the door of a home, McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said during a press conference Saturday evening.
\"The officers never had a chance to suspect a deadly assault on them, much less death, at that moment in time,\" a very emotional Rodriguez told reporters.
Rodriguez said the police department found out the officers were shot when two other officers approached the scene to help and saw the officers were down outside the home.
The officers were identified by Rodriguez as Officer Edelmiro Garza Jr., 45, and Officer Ismael Chavez, 39. Garza had been with the department close to nine years while Chavez had been on the force for about two and a half years, according to Rodriguez.
When the two additional officers arrived, they ordered the suspect to drop his gun but the suspect shot and killed himself, Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez identified the suspect as 23-year-old Audon Camarillo and said he had a history of prior charges including driving under the influence, fleeing from police, assault and marijuana possession.
\"We are weakened for the moment, but the strength and resolve we have to serve our communities, all of us here, will allow us to do what we do every day and what our officers do every day,\" Rodriguez said. \"In the face of adversity, we rise and we serve nonetheless.\"
McAllen is located in southern Texas along the US-Mexico border.
The Texas Attorney General's office said in a tweet that they would offer any assistance requested by the police. Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted that he reached out to Rodriguez and offered his condolences and full support.
CNN's Hollie Silverman and Amir Vera contributed to this report.
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