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Relationships are hard work. Well, serious ones, at least. They involve a lot of time, energy, patience, understanding and more. They involve trust, respect, and agreement. When you first get into a relationship, most times many things are peachy and cream. There’s usually a spark like no other. You could talk to that person all […]
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.
Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church began its ministry to the black community of Tucson, Arizona in 1900 when Baptist missionary Rev. John B. Bell arrived, conducted services, and with ten other devoted men and women organized the Baptist Mission. Rev. Bell was part of a longstanding effort by the Baptists to organize African American churches throughout the nation.
Originally using space downtown near the railroad depot, by 1910 the church adopted its present name and built an edifice at 10th Avenue and Fourth Street. By 1933 Tucson’s black population was about 1,000, or 3.3% of the city’s residents, and Mt. Calvary’s congregation of 200 represented 20% of the total African American community. Through the first half of the 20th century when Tucson was racially segregated, Mt. Calvary played a key role in the community, proving not only religious services and organizational leadership for black Tucsonians but also activities for youth and civic engagement around local social issues for adults.
By 1946 there were ten African American churches in Tucson, with a total membership of 1,700 or over 60% of the black population. Mt. Calvary remained the largest. In 1956 Mount Calvary relocated to a new and larger building at 210 E. Lester Street, where it remains today.
Beginning in the 1960s the local civil rights movement challenged religious and education segregation in Tucson. As a consequence Mt. Calvary lost some of its members to other churches. By the early 1990s the church transformed itself. While still serving its core members, it began an outreach ministry to maintain its youth and attract more young people.
In 2000, Mount Calvary celebrated its centennial year. Five years later it had over 500 members coming from across Tucson, not just the immediate area as in previous years. Tucson’s military and engineering facilities attracted people of various races from across the nation and Mt. Calvary welcomed them into its congregation.
In 2010 Mt. Calvary choose Pastor LaBryant Friend as their new
In 2000 at the National Democratic Convention in Los Angeles where Vice President Al Gore, Jr., won the Democratic Nomination for President, fellow Tennessean, Congressman Harold Ford of Memphis, gave the Keynote Address. That address appears below.
Thank you.
I am honored to speak tonight before a convention that will nominate the favorite son of my home state to be the next President of the United States.
I recognize that I stand here tonight because of the brave men and women-- many no older than I am today-- who were willing to stand up, and in many cases sit down, to create a more perfect union.
But I also stand here representing a new generation-- a generation committed to those ideals and inspired by an unshakeable confidence in our future.
In every neighborhood in my hometown of Memphis, and all across America, I see young people tutoring and mentoring, building homes, caring for seniors, and feeding the hungry.
I also see them using their entrepreneurial spirit to build companies, start non-profits, and drive our new economy.
We stand at this magnificent moment with the ability to unleash the American imagination.
I say to all those of this new generation and to all Americans who share in our spirit: if you want a future that belongs to you- if you want a future that is for everyone- then join with us to make Al Gore and Joe Lieberman the next President and Vice President of the United States.
We know there are some people who do understand the future, but too often as they gaze to the distance, they fail to know how, to make sure that it serves all of our people.
And then there are others who fight tirelessly for the people, but who dont see beyond the horizon.
Al Gore is the rare leader, who both has a vision for the future, and understands that we can only realize its full promise when all our people share in it.
I remember meeting Al Gore for the first time.
I sat across from him at my familys kitchen table back home in Memphis.
As often was the case, my brothers Jake, Isaac and I
The Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) announced that it will honor cosmetics industry pioneer Bobbi Brown with its ROBIE Humanitarian Award, Pittsburgh Steelers Chairman Ambassador Dan Rooney with JRF’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and Vista Equity Partners Founder and CEO Robert F. Smith with the ROBIE Achievement in Industry Award on Monday, March 7, 2016, at its annual ROBIE Awards Dinner in New York City. Each honoree will be recognized for promoting the humanitarian ideals embodied in the life of Jackie Robinson. For over 40 years, the Jackie Robinson Foundation has administered a unique scholarship program that provides four-year grants accompanied by comprehensive support services for high-achieving minority college students. The Foundation is also in the throes of a campaign to build the Jackie Robinson Museum in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
The Foundation’s Awards Dinner will be hosted by actor André Holland, who played sports journalistWendell Smith in the Jackie Robinson biopic “42” and Andrew Young in “Selma”, and currently stars in the hit Cinemax series, “The Knick.” R&B star and three-time Grammy Award nominee Angie Stone will entertain the approximately 1,000 guests expected to attend the Dinner. The evening’s presenters include fashion industry icon Norma Kamali and Founder & CEO of Legendary Pictures Thomas Tull.
“This year’s ROBIE honorees have had a remarkable impact in industry and in communities throughout the world,” said Della Britton, President and CEO of JRF. “As a 43-year old organization committed to empowering young men and women, we are proud to recognize each of them for their bold advocacy for equal opportunity and their demonstrated dedication to improving the lives of others.”
“I have personally experienced the important, positive influence that the Jackie Robinson Foundation has on the lives of so many young people,” said JRF Board Chairman, Gregg Gonsalves, Advisory Partner with Integrated Capital, LLC, and an alumnus of JRF’s preeminent scholarship program. “The awards
In the account below Edith Lee-Payne recalls the day she was photographed as a 12 year old participant in the March on Washington, and the curious history of that photograph through 2011.
My grandparents, Marie and John Spencer Lee, left Culpeper, Virginia for Washington, D.C. in the early 1900s, where my mother, Dorothy Lee, was born. My mother settled in Detroit, Michigan in 1940, married William Henderson Lee in 1947, and I was born four years later. Summer vacations were always spent in Washington. My 1963 summer vacation, however, is forever marked in history and my personal memory, because I was there when the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place on August 28, 1963. That March, which took place on my 12th birthday, changed me and transformed the nation.
Dr. Martin Luther KingsI Have a Dream speech is by far the best remembered moment at the March on Washington. King gave the speech before an audience of 250,000gathered at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial. With the giant statue ofAbraham Lincoln in the shaded background, Dr. King described a world heenvisioned as dominated by love, freedom, and justice
I heard the speech that day but I also heard one similar two months before in Detroit. On June 23, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. C. L. Franklin (Aretha Franklin’s father) led a march of over 100,000 people down Woodward Avenue to Cobo Hall in downtown Detroit. Dr. King encouraged us to join him and others in Washington, D.C. on August 28 for a peaceful demonstration that he believed would help bring attentionto the injustices of segregation throughout the south. He reminded us “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Convinced by Dr.King’s rousing discourse and other reasons I later learned, my mother scheduled our annual summer vacation so we could attend the March on Washington while celebrating my 12th birthday.
Both in Detroit and Washington, Dr. King used the refrain “I have a Dream.” Detroiters still contend the “I Have a Dream” speech made
The U.S. Supreme Court did not lift the nationwide ban on interracial marriage until June 12, 1967. But years before the high court’s pivotal decision, dozens of celebrities in and out of Hollywood partnered with couples of different racial backgrounds. This list includes 12 actors, athletes, authors, singers and socialites collectively who crossed the color line for love long before interracial marriage became widely accepted.
During a time in which black men could be lynched for even looking at a white woman the “wrong way,” boxer Jack Jackson started romantic relationships with several white women. After romancing a series of prostitutes who were black and white alike, Johnson married New York socialite Etta Terry Duryea in Pittsburgh in January 1911. The couple tried to keep their marriage a secret, but a year after the interracial couple tied the knot word of their union spread back to Brooklyn. The abusive nature of her relationship with Johnson, the death of her father, disapproval of her interracial marriage and a history of depression all likely contributed to Duryea’s decision to kill herself in September 1912.
Just weeks after Duryea’s suicide, Johnson started a romance with 18-year-old white prostitute Lucille Cameron. Due to outrage over his relationship, Johnson was arrested for breaking the Mann Act, which made it illegal to travel across state lines “for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose,” according to PBS.
When broadly applied, the Mann Act could be used to outlaw all premarital and extramarital sexual relationships that involved interstate travel, PBS reported. On Dec. 4, 1912, Johnson married Cameron. The following year he was convicted of violating the Mann Act for his relationship with Cameron. The couple lived abroad for several years, with the boxer spending nine days in jail related to his Mann Act conviction.
Cameron filed for divorce from Johnson four years later because the known womanizer had been unfaithful to her.
In August 1925, Johnson
LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forbidden by her global superstar mother Gloria Estefan from coming out as a lesbian to her grandmother, singer Emily Estefan said she contemplated suicide.
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Jamila E. Taylor, a long-time community advocate and founding board member of Blackpast.org, graduated from University of Oregon School of Law with a Doctor of Jurisprudence and obtained her BA in Sociology from Virginia State University. She is an energetic motivator with “an unrelenting focus on developing community capacity.” She is a staff attorney for Northwest Justice Project working with victims of crime to help resolve their civil legal needs. Prior to her work with NJP, Jamila owned a private law practice, NW Prosper Law, which focused on family law, small business and nonprofits. Jamila continues to provide consultation services to nonprofits in program and organizational development. She also worked for five years in the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative (“SYVPI”) as the Central Area Network Coordinator. She led a team tasked with coordinating community interventions and supports to 400+ young people in the Central Area experiencing family, peer or gang conflict; court involvement; school suspension or expulsion; homelessness or other risk factors. Outside of her professional endeavors, Jamila is a graduate of the Washington Leadership Institute and Leadership Tomorrow. Jamila is an active member of Seattle graduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
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Businessman Strive Masiyiwa has urged Africans to adopt what he calls the 'ITTIT' formula to fighting the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus epidemic as governments across the continent gradually ease national lockdown restrictions imposed to reign-in the spread of the disease.
Writing on his popular Facebook blog following his appointment by the African Union as a Special Envoy to Coordinate the Africa Private Sector Initiative for the Procurement of Personal Protective Equipment and other Essential Supplies, Masiyiwa says the key to stopping the disease in its tracks is to adopt the formula #ITTIT; inform, test, trace, isolate and treatment as a collaborative effort among the private sector, NGOs, businesses and faith-based organizations.
Unfortunately, this test needs to be taken at least seven days from the time you are infected, which means you could have unknowingly infected a lot of people during that time.
Once you identify people who have tested positive for COVID-19, they must be isolated in a safe place from others, until the virus is out of their system.
As soon as someone tests positive for the virus, the health authorities will want to sit them down and learn about their #Contacts to help them, their families and others in their community stay safe.
For most individuals, using soap is just part of daily grooming, but for Dr. Marchita Masters, it represents fun, creativity and togetherness. Masters wanted the opportunity to share the joys of soap making with others, so she co-founded Soap Fantastic.
As a Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years of experience with children, combined with Masters’ role as a mother, she was truly able to delve into the joys of soap making with her son. She states, “The soap kits are made with no lye and are safe for children. When families have fun making soap together, they can actually improve their relationships with each other at the same time!”
Soap Fantastic’s line of hand crafted Artisan Soap is made by their Master Soap Maker. This holiday season, Soap Fantastic will unveil their culturally sensitive holiday line, which includes soaps for Christmas, Hanukkahand Kwanzaa. John Evans, a co-creator of the company, states, “The earth is made up of many cultures, religions and ethnicities and we’re inclined to find ways to celebrate them all.” While these are the initial offerings of culturally sensitive soaps, there are more to come.
The Jewelry Soap is exciting because jewelry worth up to $1,000 is hidden inside each bar. With the jewelry embedded soap, consumers will always get something nice to keep or share and there is a chance to receive jewelry worth up to $1,000.
Soap fragrances include: Spiced Chestnut, Cinnamon Candies, Ocean Rain, Orange Cranberry, Lilac, Santa’s Tree Farm, Hot Apple Pie, Mahogany Teakwood, South Pacific Waters, Jasmine, Lavender and Lemon, with more to come.
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During Lizzo's meteoric rise she's been both praised and dragged for her body positivity. But now the entertainer is coming... View Article
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TEEN Rescue Mission (TRM), a non-profit organisation founded by gospel musician Abraham Matuka recently partnered the Indian embassy, a development that will see its members getting job opportunities at Pepsi Zimbabwe and scholarships in India. BY KENNEDY NYAVAYA The deal comes at a time TRM has been making efforts to keep young people off the streets and from immoral activities through various art competitions and training programmes. In an interview with NewsDay Life & Style yesterday, Matuka said the opportunities facilitated by the embassy would enable them to fulfil their objectives of getting rid of idleness among local youths. “This opportunity helps us to achieve our purpose. We cannot effectively influence youths to do the right thing while leaving them with nothing to fill the void of idleness since most of them are very active at this age,” he said. “We would like to thank our sponsors and the Indian embassy for their unwavering support to our activities. Such support motivates us to achieve part of our mission to make young people responsible and reduce crime.” Matuka said under the scholarship programme, young people would be sent to India to train in different vocations that would assist them to become entrepreneurs. Outgoing Indian ambassador Rungsung Masakui pledged more and applauded TRM for making an attempt to keep teenagers away from deviant conduct. “Most of the young people he (Matuka) has been interacting with are actually of a productive age, but because of the conditions that are prevailing in the country, and also for other reasons I think they have been distracted. “He (Matuka) has been assisting to bring them back to the mainstream to make them more productive again, so we are quite excited about that,” he said. Founded in 2018, Teen Rescue Mission assists teenagers and youths to abstain from drugs, crime and early sex, thereby moulding better citizens and future leaders.
ByAmanda Rosa A teenage girl from Brooklyn bounced to four foster homes before she trusted a family enough to come out as bisexual. In Queens, a 21-year-old transgender man said he no longer spoke to his parents. Another teenager, who is transgender, remembered the day […]
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Often known simply as Cleopatra, this ruler of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Philopater, was the last Pharaoh of Egypt, last of the Ptolemy dynasty of Egyptian rulers. She is also known for her relationships to Julius Caesar and to Marc Antony.
Dates: 69 BCE - August 30, 30 BCE
Occupation: Pharaoh of Egypt (ruler)
Also Known as: Cleopatra Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Philopater; Cleopatra Philadelphus Philopator Philopatris Thea Neotera
Cleopatra VII was the descendant of Macedonians who were established as rulers over Egypt when Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 323 BCE.
Much of what we know about Cleopatra was written after her death when it was politically expedient to portray her as a threat to Rome and its stability.
Thus, some of what we know about Cleopatra may have been exaggerated or misrepresented by those sources. Cassius Dio, one of the ancient sources that tell her story, summarizes her story as She captivated the two greatest Romans of her day, and because of the third she destroyed herself.
During Cleopatras early years, her father tried to maintain his failing power in Egypt by bribing powerful Romans. Ptolemy XII was reportedly the son of a concubine instead of a royal wife.
When Ptolemy XII went to Rome in 58 BCE, his wife, Cleopatra VI Tryphaina, and his eldest daughter, Berenice IV, assumed the rulership jointly. When he returned, apparently Cleopatra VI had died, and with the help of Roman forces, Ptolemy XII regained his throne and executed Berenice. Ptolemy then married his son, about 9 years old, to his remaining daughter, Cleopatra, who was by time about eighteen.
Cleopatra apparently attempted to rule alone, or at least not equally with her much-younger brother. In 48 BCE, Cleopatra was pushed out of power by ministers. At the same time, Pompey -- with whom Ptolemy XII had allied himself -- appeared in Egypt, chased by forces of Julius Caesar. Pompey was assassinated by Ptolemy XIIIs supporters.
A sister of Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII declared herself ruler as Arsinoe IV.
Cleopatra,
[Gender Links] Antananarivo, 9 November 2020: The SADC Gender Protocol Alliance members and Gender Links Madagascar launched the #VoiceandChoice 2020 Sexual Reproductive and Health Rights (SRHR) Barometer in the time of COVID-19. The launch took place at Le PAVE Restaurant Hotel.
In these days when all our schools and universities have been closed, one would expect to see a prominent link to e-learning resources for students.
In these days of massive disruption of the traditional class or lecture room, we find that our universities and even top city schools where parents pay millions for day school appear to run like they did 10 years ago.
As children get older, school projects become more by learning computer programming is another area that our schools can take up to build innovative pedagogy.
We find ourselves in such circumstances because after many years of teaching computer science, Makerere University cannot find resources to build and maintain a basic e-learning platform.
Or at an even more elementary level, most secondary schools in Kampala where there is reasonable fixed broadband internet access will not take advantage of free Google Sites during the Coronavirus lockdown to upload learning resources for students!
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Suspected militants have beheaded over a dozen men and teenagers participating in a male initiation ceremony in Mozambique, local sources have said.
