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.
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Keenan Scott II's play 'Thoughts of a Colored Man,' a work about the outer and inner lives of Black men, is heading to the bright lights of Broadway. The play will be given a Shubert theater and will open whenever Broadway restarts. It will be directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. Both playwright and director are Black and will be making their Broadway debuts. 'Thoughts of a Colored Man' is made up of related vignettes and set over the course of a single day in Brooklyn, where seven Black […]
The post Play 'Thoughts of a Colored Man' to get a Broadway run appeared first on Black News Channel.
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
Governor JB Pritzker on Monday announced the launch of Illinois’ statewide contact tracing program for COVID-19 cases in two pilot counties as the state begins to fine-tune its latest weapon to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Contact tracing, which was used early on in the state’s coronavirus outbreak when the number of cases was manageably small, consists of tracers interviewing people who have newly tested positive about who they had significant contact with in the past 48 hours.
The two counties were chosen “for having significant needs in terms of case numbers in vulnerable populations, a capacity to grow their contact tracing and great existing collaborations of public health personnel, medical students and volunteers already on the ground,” Pritzker said.
The governor said Illinois’ contact tracing program will consist of three parts: a disease reporting software, a common management platform and an app to be used by coronavirus patients and the people they came in contact with.
People interested in becoming part of the contact tracing program, including becoming a tracer, should visit IDPH’s on Monday reported 2,294 new cases of COVID-19, as well as 59 new deaths.
Miller and Sheth are among tens of thousands of voters who didn’t get their requested absentee ballots in recent primaries, including in the battleground states of Georgia and Wisconsin.
If just 1% of absentee ballots aren’t delivered to voters in key states this fall, that could tip the balance in a close presidential election and potentially trigger a constitutional crisis.
About 97% of primary voters cast absentee ballots in Maryland, which held a nearly all-mail election for the first time ever.
CNN spoke to registered voters in Georgia, Wisconsin and Washington DC, who said they followed the rules requested absentee ballots, and even sought assistance from local election officials, to no avail.
The Georgia Secretary of State’s office told CNN that nearly 97% of absentee ballots were delivered to the right place before Election Day.
William Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.[1] [2]
A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he started in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of Americas elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina.[3]
Taylor was also a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the worlds foremost spokesman for jazz.[4]
Taylor was born in Greenville, North Carolina, but moved to Washington, D.C., when he was five years old. He grew up in a musical family and learned to play different instruments as a child, including guitar, drums and saxophone. He was most successful at the piano, and had classical piano lessons with Henry Grant, who had educated Duke Ellington a generation earlier. Taylor made his first professional appearance playing keyboard at the age of 13 and was paid one dollar.[5] Taylor attended Dunbar High School, the U.S.s first high school for African-American students. He went to Virginia State College and majored in sociology. Pianist Dr. Undine Smith Moore noticed young Taylors talent in piano and he changed his major to music, graduating with a degree in music in 1942.[5]
Taylor moved to New York City after graduation and started playing piano professionally from 1944, first with Ben Websters Quartet on New Yorks 52nd Street. The same night he joined Websters Quartet, he met Art Tatum, who became his mentor. Among the other musicians Taylor worked with was Machito and his mambo band, from
The NFL will consult an advisory committee made up of former coaches, general managers and players on such issues as postponing, moving or even canceling games this season due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Troy Vincent, the league’s football operations chief, said Wednesday that the advisers, who will report to Commissioner Roger Goodell, will help avoid any “inequities” in those decisions. Vincent did not identify any members of the panel, saying he was awaiting their approval to do so.
The post NFL to use advisory committee to avoid conflicts of interest appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
On the eve of Juneteenth and following a historic Supreme Court victory for LGBTQ rights, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Hill District Thursday for a rally and march seeking justice for the Black transgender community.
Speaking through a megaphone, Miracle Jones urged allies to work to support Black transgender people.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that gay and transgender workers are entitled to workplace protection under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Last Friday, about 200 people joined a march and candlelight vigil in McKeesport for Aaliyah Johnson, a transgender Black woman who died in May.
Hundreds of people march down Centre Avenue holding signs, flags and banners during the Pittsburgh Action for Black Trans Lives on June 18, 2020.
Three months ago, Shelly Ann Brown* gave birth to her second daughter. For the young mother, the meagre stipend that her call centre job provides towards working-from- home expenses is just not adding up. Her $5,000 monthly allowance, however, is...
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — Hundreds of anti-coal activists staged protesters in and around a mine in western Germany on Saturday, demonstrating against the continued extraction and use of fossil fuels in Europe's biggest economy. Environmental groups oppose the German government's decision to allow the mining and burning of coal in the country until 2038, a deadline the activists say is too late to effectively tackle climate change. Activists, dressed in colored overalls and braving wind and rain, were also protesting the planned destruction of several villages to make way for the expansion […]
The post Hundreds of anti-coal campaigners protest at German mine appeared first on Black News Channel.
Cosatu has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to act decisively against corruption and \"prove that his administration is not a powerless scarecrow with rubber teeth\".
As the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in St Thomas continue to spike, chairman of the Princess Margaret Hospital, Michael McLeod, has called for additional wards and at least one other facility to accommodate persons infected with the new...
Barely two years out of nursing school, John James Jr. found his way onto the pages of The New York Times, as part of an expose’ titled “In Harm’s Way.” The article spotlights healthcare professionals all over the country, featuring their reflections on caring for COVID-19 patients. James initially was contacted over social media by […]
… immigrants, then Italians, then African Americans, Mexican immigrants in the Southwest … .
The poorest, and especially African Americans, remain in residentially segregated neighborhoods … more wealth than the median African American family, and 22 times …
BY NKULULEKO SIBANDA HEADS have started rolling at the State-run National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) after government demanded a management restructuring exercise in an effort to turn around the fortunes of the loss-making parastatal. NRZ spokesperson Nyasha Maravanyika confirmed to NewsDay last week that the restructuring programme had taken off, with three directors being forced into early retirement. A senior manager was also sent on forced leave pending investigation into his conduct. “As you are aware, the Minister of Transport (Joel Biggie Matiza) visited Bulawayo on the 7th and 31st of July 2020 to meet with the NRZ board and give it a new direction which the parastatal should take,” Maravanyika said. “That direction has naturally become a directive on the board to restructure management and give it new impetus, new thinking and new approach to the affairs of the company.” He said following the meetings and consultations between government and the new board, several officials had been asked to take up early retirement alongside former general manager, Lewis Mukwada. “Stakeholders would need to appreciate that since the July 31 meeting, the board and ministry have since finalised on the appointment of board member, Joseph Mashika as acting general manager. “. . . We have also seen three substantive directors, that of marketing, operations, and corporate affairs also going on early retirement effective August 5, 2020. All the stakeholders need to appreciate that the process which has led to the aforementioned former officials going on early retirement was not a witch hunt. It was not targeting anyone. It was a process that is meant to ensure that the organisation revitalises and revamps so as to be able to tackle the challenge that lies ahead of it,” Maravanyika added. The new NRZ management has been tasked with, among other things, dealing with space barons that are leasing out NRZ premises without management’s knowledge. “An audit report that was done in 2017 showed that the NRZ is losing $22 million annually to space barons in Harare only. If we use that as a basis and calculate the losses nationally where the NRZ has properties, we will realise that there is a lot of money that has been lost to these barons,” Maravanyika said. Procurement was another key area of focus. “We have the procurement and supplies area as one of the areas that the new NRZ management has been given a task to sort out. You are aware that the NRZ is a major seller of scrap metal from some of its equipment that has been de-commissioned,” Maravanyika said. “This is one area that has drawn unnecessary attention to the company owing to the manner in which some of the tenders around scrap metal have been handled. In that area, the NRZ board has directed that the supply stores manager be suspended pending investigations into how that department has been handling matters.”
This week, Korey Wise of the Exonerated Five hosted a food drive to help residents in need in his neighborhood of Harlem amid COVID-19.
A leading white nationalist told a judge on Thursday that his notoriety has made it difficult for him to raise money for his defense against a “financially crippling” lawsuit that names him as an organizer of a rally in Virginia that erupted into violence in 2017.
The lawyer, John DiNucci, said Spencer owes him a significant amount of money in legal fees and hasn’t been cooperating adequately.
Spencer told U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Hoppe that the lawsuit over the “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 has been “extremely expensive” and a “huge burden” for him.
“This case has been financially crippling for a long time,” said Spencer, who popularized the term “alt-right” to describe a loosely connected fringe movement of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists.
Lawyers for victims of the Charlottesville rally violence sued several far-right extremist groups and individuals who participated in the event, which was organized in part to protest the city’s planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
… King. All were African Americans except for Alexis Maldonado … Police killed Taylor, an African American emergency medical technician. … David Robinson, an African American soldier accused of killing … mobility opportunities” for African American women.
“I’m …
Stay informed and up to date with all the latest news in South Africa by reviewing the day’s major headlines on Tuesday 18 August.
With the rising number of locals testing positive for the coronavirus, Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) officials have decided that its nearly 50,000 students will remain at home rather than return to their campuses. Officials announced on Wednesday that students will continue full distance learning to start off the 2020-2021 school year. The “first […]
Osaka’s name will now go down in history because her earnings has set a record for a female athletes’ earnings in a year.
Forbes reports that Osaka and Williams are the only two women to make the magazine’s list for the highest paid athletes in 2020 since 2016.
“To those outside the tennis world, Osaka is a relatively fresh face with a great back story,” says David Carter, a sports business professor at USC’s Marshall School of Business.
According to Forbes, Osaka’s backstory played a significant role in her earnings since her skills are undeniably great.
Sponsors like Procter & Gamble, All Nippon Airways and Nissin jumped on the Osaka wagon and signed endorsement deals with her to market their products for the Games.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Biden reminded the audience of a little more than 100 people – down from an anticipated 900 because of the pandemic – that Trump called fallen military members “losers and suckers.” While Trump dared Biden to say, “Law and order,” Wallace opened discussions on race. “Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down,” the moderator asked Trump.
The Western Cape has passed its first Covid-19 peak, but is now planning to deal with the fall-out from the lockdown and the global pandemic.
My family's story, like those of so many other American families, begins with immigration. My mother fled Uganda as a refugee in 1984. She was drawn to America because she saw a nation where she could expand her potential - and as a single mother to my three younger siblings and me, she taught all of us that here we, […]
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is very likely to attempt to kill himself if he is sent to the United States to face espionage charges, a psychiatric expert said Tuesday at an extradition hearing in London. Michael Kopelman, emeritus professor of neuropsychiatry at King's College London, said Assange has a history of depression and there is a 'very high' risk of suicide if the U.S. extradition attempt succeeds. 'It's the imminence of extradition and/or an actual extradition that will trigger the attempt, in my opinion,' Kopelman said during testimony as a witness for […]
The post Expert: WikiLeaks' Assange a suicide risk if extradited appeared first on Black News Channel.
Confederate Adm. Raphael Semmes, in green-patinaed bronze, sword at his hip, long stood sentry on Mobile&s Government Street, the main corridor
