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(NewsUSA) - Toys for Tots is more than a Christmastime charity - thanks to a new partnership between the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and Good360.Toys for Tots, the 74-year national charitable program run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, is launching a DoGoodNow campaign to bring toys, books, and games to families in need … Continued
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\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.
(Jamaica Gleaner) THE MAN said to be responsible for the brutal gun attack that left two policemen dead and two others in critical condition in hospital is now dead.
The incident occurred during a predawn operation on Friday in Horizon Park, Spanish Town, St Catherine.
Thirty-nine-year-old Damion Hamilton was killed by the police in Cooreville Gardens, Kingston, sometime yesterday afternoon.
It is understood that the first incident occurred about 4:30 a.m. on Friday when members of a police party came under gun attack from a premises on Queens Drive in the Horizon Park community.
Hamilton has been living at the house on Queens Drive in Horizon Park for the past three years and was recruited by an individual from the area to help fight a turf war, a source explained.
While the pandemic has played havoc with the plans of many paddlers, 2018 Dusi Canoe Marathon champion Jordan Peek says it has given her the opportunity to fall back in love with paddling.
The RISE for Rare Multi-Channel Campaign Will Build Awareness Around Rare Disease and Its Impact on Communities of Color The Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) announced the launch of a comprehensive multi-channel campaign entitled RISE for Rare. This campaign is the first large scale activation of BWHI’s Rare Disease Diversity Coalition that was formed in […]
[The Conversation Africa] The world has a COVID-19 vaccine access problem: Almost half of all doses administered so far have been in Europe and North America, while many poorer countries have vaccinated less than than 1% of their populations.
The beverage awards which is in its fourth year, closed nominations to the general public and all beverage companies in February this year.
Under the theme, 'Inspiring excellence in Ghana's beverage industry' the awards aim to promote both local and foreign beverages as well as the participation of small-scale beverage enterprises in Ghana.
In a lead-up to this year's awards, Mr Boateng said a beverage industry tour was organised for the GBA board to visit nominated companies to familiarise with their work and practices, and said, \"This initiative is one of the new activities which was introduced in the build-up to the 2019 Awards Night.\"
Mr Boateng said GBA this year had introduced two new categories to the awards, namely Local Beverage Advertisement of the Year and International Liqueur of the Year.
The Local Beverage Advert of the Year Award goes to the brand in the year under review that is enjoying massive public appeal with its creative publicity.
BY SILAS NKALA LOCAL human rights groups have called out President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government for trampling on citizens’ rights under the guise of enforcing COVID-19 preventive measures. The calls were made on Tuesday as the country joined the world in celebrating International Day of Democracy. Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) in a statement urged the government to adopt and implement measures that are legal, proportionate and respect basic principles of democracy in its battle to combat the spread of coronavirus. “This year’s theme (COVID-19: A Spotlight on Democracy) is critical in that it puts a spotlight on democracy at a time the world is battling to contain the spread of coronavirus. This puts critical focus on how governments across the world are adhering to the essential elements of democracy which include freedom, respect for human rights, and the principle of holding periodic and genuine elections by universal suffrage,” read the statement. “Across the world, democracy is facing challenges amid the coronavirus pandemic. While the world is confronted with combating the coronavirus pandemic, upholding principles of democracy should never be abdicated as it is crucial in ensuring the free flow of information and access to information, participation in decision-making, accountability and respect for fundamental freedoms.” The human rights lawyers said it was disturbing that government was at the forefront of eroding the enjoyment and exercise of fundamental freedoms and rights through arrests, prosecution, abduction and persecution of human rights defenders including lawyers, journalists, ordinary citizens and perceived enemies of the State. They said more worrying was government’s reluctance to ensure that the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Good Governance, which government signed to on March 28, 2018 is domesticated. “It is critical that the government exhibits transparency, is accountable in all its responses to combating coronavirus including enforcement of national lockdown measures to ensure that any emergency measures are legal, proportionate, necessary and non-discriminatory and above all, respect human rights and the rule of law,” ZHLR said. “As we put a spotlight on democracy during COVID-19, ZLHR calls upon law enforcement agents to exercise due respect and restraint in enforcing national lockdown measures, government to speed up alignment of laws with the Constitution and ensure adherence to principles of democracy and constitutionalism, implement legal and administrative reforms to create a conducive environment that guarantees the respect and enjoyment of democracy and fundamental human rights and freedoms and ratify and domesticate the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Good Governance.”
Jesse Brown, wounded veteran and government official, was born on March 27, 1944 to Lucille Brown in Detroit, Michigan. His single-parent mother raised him in Chicago. Brown first attended Roosevelt University in Chicago and later graduated from Kennedy- King College in that same city.
In 1963, Brown enlisted into the United States Marine Corps. During the Vietnam War, he was seriously wounded while patrolling near DaNang. The injury left his right arm completely paralyzed. For his sacrifice, Brown received the Purple Heart and an honorable discharge.
In 1967, Brown found employment at the Chicago Bureau of the Disabled American’s Veterans (DAV). Six years later in 1973, Brown had been promoted to supervisor of the appeals office for the DAV headquarters in Washington, D.C. Within ten years, Brown became headquarters manager. In 1988, he became the DAV’s first African American executive director. In this position, he often testified on veteran health issues before Congress. He challenged Congress’s efforts to decrease veteran’s benefits and criticized the deterioration of the veteran’s hospital system. While at the agency, he also created the system for health officials to diagnose and treat post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and physical side effects of Agent Orange.
In January 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Brown to the position of Secretary of Veteran Affairs. After Congressional hearings and confirmation, Brown took over this position in early 1993. His agency contained 260,000 employees and he oversaw a budget of over $34.3 billion dollars. During his tenure, he reengineered the healthcare system, created more healthcare services for female veterans, and developed resources for homeless veterans. Although Brown resigned from his position in 1997, government officials and veterans praised his advocacy for veterans. Brown’s commitment and dedication to improving the lives of veterans earned him the prestigious Presidential Unsung Hero Award by LIFE in 2000 and the Outstanding
155 Civil Rights Organizations Urge Immediate Congressional Action on Voting Rights The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 154 other civil rights organizations today called on members of … Continued
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Nationwide via Blacknews.com — Dr. Kim Scott, founder and owner of the nonprofit service organization Teen Focus, Inc., believes that teens deserve better and that they need services that will enable and empower them to see and realize their true potential. For twenty years, Dr. Scott has been helping at-risk teens, after initially establishing an […]
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A decision to abandon the Keystone XL oil pipeline leaves Canada with an export problem, analysts said, but it may be a broader sign of an inevitable energy transition and evolution. In one of his first acts since taking office, President Joe Biden rescinded a permit for the cross-border Keystone XL pipeline, a long-planned artery that would take Canadian and […]
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“They’re all dead,” Erica Belfield screamed while watching the news from her living room the day after the tragedy.
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Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley
Nasa and SpaceX are on course to make history on Wednesday as they launch two astronauts into space from US soil for the first time since 2011.
According to Nasa, this is a demonstration mission to show SpaceX’s ability to ferry astronauts to the space station and back safely.
It is the final major step required by SpaceX’s astronaut carrier, the Crew Dragon, to get certified by Nasa’s Commercial Crew Programme for more long-term manned missions to space.
The Falcon 9 rocket will take off from launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft with Behnken and Hurley strapped inside.
When it is time to return, the Crew Dragon will autonomously undock with Behnken and Hurley on board and depart the space station.
Tyree Scott was a Seattle civil rights and labor leader who opened the door to women and minority workers in the construction industry. Scott was born in Hearne (Wharton County), Texas and before moving to Seattle in 1966, he served in the U. S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. His father was an electrician in Seattle who found that jobs in the construction industry were off limits to blacks, limiting his ability to compete for large contracts. In 1969, when Seattle’s Model Cities Program was attracting large federal contracts, the anti-poverty agency encouraged black contractors to organize in order to gain access to them.
Scott became the leader of a group of black contractors known as the Central Contractors Association who sought equal compliance in Federal building projects. During the months of August and September, 1969, he led the CCA in shutting down every major federal construction site throughout Seattle to protest the ongoing discrimination against black contractors and construction workers. One protest closed a work site on the University of Washington campus while another demonstration temporarily halted work on the construction of an airport runway at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport. These protests precipitated the first federal imposition of affirmative action upon local labor unions. The United States Department of Justice filed suit against the all-white construction unions in late 1969 for their discriminatory practices. The following year Federal Judge William Lindberg mandated a broad affirmative action program for the Seattle construction industry. The Seattle Plan, as his order was soon called, eventually became a national model for affirmative action in the construction industry.
In 1970, Tyree Scott became the leader of the United Construction Workers Association, a new organization proposed by the American Friends Service Committee which was to support minority workers with activism, social work, and political advocacy. In 1973, the UCWA, the Alaska Cannery Workers Association,
