Login to BlackFacts.com using your favorite Social Media Login. Click the appropriate button below and you will be redirected to your Social Media Website for confirmation and then back to Blackfacts.com once successful.
Enter the email address and password you used to join BlackFacts.com. If you cannot remember your login information, click the “Forgot Password” link to reset your password.
(The Center Square) – Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell announced a series of proposed ordinances, including protest buffer zones around public building and parking lots, in order to combat recent protests in the city. Protesters interrupted the council’s July meeting after reportedly “espousing various forms of hatred filmed, chanted, displayed offensive signage and clothing,” according to […]
The post Nashville mayor proposes ordinance to combat recent protests appeared first on The Black Chronicle.
\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.
Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind, & Fire is using his Music Is Unity Foundation to launch a fundraiser for National Adoption Month.
Today is the sixth day of 2021. There are 359 days left in the year,TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1942: The Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper arrives in New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial aeroplane.�OTHER EVENTS
What is the definition of insanity? I was told it is doing the same thing…
The post Managing the Caregiver Role with Spreadsheets appeared first on Forward Times.
The project was so well received that it was expanded to include all 30 public high schools located in Jefferson County.
The presentations include information about Jefferson County’s local waterways and watersheds, litter and its negative impacts on the environment, competition details and how their school can participate.
About four years ago, a group of like-minded organizations came together to create a community outreach and public awareness campaign to encourage everyone, but especially high school students, to stop littering.
The Litter Quitters anti-littering campaign is a project spearheaded by the Jefferson County Conservation District in partnership with: City of Birmingham, City of Bessemer, City of Hoover, City of Leeds, Creative Directions, Inc., Freshwater Land Trust, Jefferson County Commission, Jefferson County Department of Health, Keep Birmingham Beautiful, and Stormwater Management Authority, Inc., and corporate sponsors ACIPCO, Drummond Company, and WBRC-TV and affiliates.
Donations from corporate sponsors WBRC-TV and affiliates, Drummond Company, Inc, and American Cast Iron Pipe Company helped pay for the cash prize, creation and airing of a public service message featuring students from participating high schools talking about the negative effects of littering, and an anti-littering digital billboard campaign.
As political tensions and uncertainty continue to rise in Chad, Ruth Lago spoke with Attorney Max Loalngar to get more insight into the situation.
The People’s National Party (PNP) is rejecting as baseless the assertion by Prime Minister Andrew Holness that the party is pushing a strategy of confrontation in the ongoing election campaign. \tHolness issued the critique following his...
By Scott McClallen (The Center Square) – The Michigan Supreme Court Friday ruled against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Executive Orders that have restricted Michiganders' daily lives for the past 207 days. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on the question of the 1976 Emergency Management Act, but split 4-3 that the 1945 Emergency Powers of the Governor Act “is … Continued
The post Michigan Supreme Court Rules Against Whitmer's Executive Powers appeared first on The Michigan Chronicle.
The Indian government have agreed to the IPL's request to stage the tournament outside of its home country for the third time.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad Othman Jerandi, on Monday, met with French Ambassador to Tunisia, André Parant, who reiterated France's readiness to stand by Tunisia to help meet the economic and health challenges it is facing.
Social media restricted
Authorities in Burundi cut access to social media networks early on Wednesday morning.
NetBlocks.org, an organisation monitoring internet shutdowns, analysed traffic from Burundi's three major internet providers and determined that access to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp had been restricted.
⚠️ Alert: Social media and messaging apps disrupted in #Burundi on election day; real-time network data show Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram and WhatsApp unavailable via leading network operators; incident ongoing 📉 📰 https://t.co/lPlbogsFLZ pic.twitter.com/T9CGP2wPB8 - NetBlocks.org (@netblocks) May 20, 2020
Sign up for free AllAfrica Newsletters
Get the latest in African news delivered straight to your inbox
Success!
Willy Nyamitwe, a advisor to Nkurunziza and former government spokesperson, denied that the internet in Burundi had been severed, but did not address the cut to social networks.
Social media users in Burundi reported having to use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to bypass the government's restrictions.
A St James man is recovering at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) after falling several feet into a well this afternoon. Acting station officer of the Barbados Fire Service Patrick Edwards said Leston Wilson, of the Garden St James, was fully conscious but nursing multiple injuries, after being rescued from nearly 20 feet down inside […]
The post Man recovering at QEH after falling into well in St James appeared first on Barbados Today.
LOTTO Results edit post Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 28 February 2021 2021-02-28 edit post Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 27 February 2021
Sprawling parking lots at California State University Los Angeles and Oakland-Alameda Coliseum in “Oaktown” are two locations in California where the state is set to conduct focused vaccine pushes for education workers. The effort is part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s health equity plan as he prioritizes the reopening of schools.
[Capital FM] Kisii -- Nairobi has joined the Partnership for Healthy Cities, a prestigious global network of cities working to reduce noncommunicable diseases(NCDs) and injuries, along with New York, USA, and Osaka, Japan.
Although it's the leading cause of cancer-related fatalities among men in the country, it's often difficult to get men to screen for prostate cancer.
This was the view of the Ministry of Health's principal medical officer Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards, during her address at the opening ceremony of the Caribbean Urological Association's (CURA) 25th annual meeting at the Hyatt in Port of Spain on Friday.
\"We always had this conundrum with getting men to go to the appropriate screening modality where they don't want to hear, so you tend to find...they either come to you with a wife or daughter or girlfriend or some female companion dragging them along, or they come to you late stage,\" she said drawing from her experience as a family medicine practitioner.
\"This is why today's conference is really pivotal, especially for those of us who are not urologists, to understand how we can better connect and communicate with our patients to allow (us) to look into preventative methods and screening,\" she said.
Citing statistics from the cancer registry, Abdool-Richards said between 2016 and 2020 prostate cancer accounted for one in five cancer-related deaths. Additionally, she said, it's the leading cancer-related death in men, accounting for around one-third of the fatalities.
In July, she said, the Ministry of Health hosted an exercise where some 4,000 men over 40 were screened using a PSA blood test for the disease. Of these, she said 464 required additional medical follow-ups; that's just over 10 per cent.
\"And that alone should really identify how significant prostate cancer is in terms of a major clinical problem and public health problem in Trinidad and Tobago,\" she said.
She said prostate cancer is a non-communicable disease and the Ministry of Health includes it in its overall NCD-reduction strategy.
She said this involves risk identification, screening for modifiable risk factors, encouraging behaviour change, health education, empowerment and clinical management.
\"And while we can continue to promote preventive-care early detection, we must also be committed to providing the highest level of quality treatment services utilising the most technologically-advanced options and solutions, and this is where I really want to commend CURA and CURA's partners,\" she said.
CURA's annual meeting runs until Sunday and will expose regional and international practitioners. It will provide updates in the spheres of prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, kidney stones, erectile dysfunction, infertility and trauma among others.
The post Principal medical officer: Difficult to get men to screen for prostate cancer appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
Officials are reviewing the citations and the police department's evidence. \"It's now incumbent on the city counselor to decide whether or not to charge these people,\" the city counselor said.
WASHINGTON — In October 2002, 17-year-old Lee Malvo and John Muhammad terrorized the Washington, D.C., region with a series of random shootings from inside the trunk of a 1990 blue Chevy Caprice, killing 10 people and [...]
