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On their knees, blindfolded, five young men listen to blessings in Yoruba, a language brought by African slaves more than four centuries ago, to become the new members of the Abakua society, a unique Cuban cult.
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.
Ahead of Father’s Day weekend, the Women’s Gun Violence Prevention Team is hosting a dinner on Friday evening designed to celebrate men in the community and invite them to join the fight against senseless gun violence.
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DR ASHA PEMBERTON teenhealth.tt@gmail.com Most parents of tweens and teens are now well aware of Japanese animé, a popular multimedia art. Young people of this generation have demonstrated significant and growing interest in animé series and movies, making it a now multi-billion dollar industry. The name 'animé' is derived from the English word 'animation' and … Continue reading Animé lessons for parents
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This represents a tremendous step forward for the Black Press of America. We note that during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Press of America has been able to overcome many of the obstacles that the pandemic continues to present. We plan to rebroadcast the virtual NNPA 2020 convention as soon as we conclude some post-production edits and additions.”
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Senator Steven Bradford (D- Los Angeles) vice chair of the Legislative Black Caucus.
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Shortly after members of the California legislature took a knee for eight minutes and 46 seconds at the California Capitol to protest racism and the death of George Floyd, Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) took the opportunity to call out some of her Latino colleagues.
“I have to be honest, I’m disappointed with our Latino caucus,” Gonzalez said at the event that Assemblymember Syndey Kamlager (D-Los Angeles), a member the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC), organized.
Gonzalez said although some of the California Legislative Latino Caucus (CLLC) members have co-authored pieces of legislation with Black Caucus members, they have not been supportive enough of policy that can make a measurable difference in the lives of Black Californians.
The protest-slash-tribute took place in front of the California state Capitol’s West steps to honor the late George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer who pinned the unarmed Black man down during an arrest.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE If you ask a young, homeless person where they’re going and they reply to My Friend’s Place, they are probably in good hands. My Friend’s Place is a nonprofit that assists and inspires homeless youth ages 12-25 to build self-sufficient lives. Originally called the Lighthouse, My Friend’s Place was co-founded in 1988 Read More...
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Press Release - Nzambi Matee's small workshop in Nairobi, Kenya is chock-a-block with metal pipes and machine cogs.
By: Kelton Brooks The Fisk Jubilee Singers received a $1.5 million anonymous donation to establish an endowment. Fisk, a Historically Black College and University in Nashville, Tennessee, announced on Thursday, Sept. 2, that the gift was one of the most significant donations ever made to the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The Jubilee singers are a vocal group at Fisk University whose tradition dates back 150 years. The historical singers also earned their first Grammy Award earlier this year. The musical lifestyle started in 1871 as a set of college students who sang slave spirituals at public performances to raise funds for the college. Over time, their […]
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Texas and Florida reversed course and clamped down on bars again Friday in the nation’s biggest retreat yet as the number of confirmed coronavirus infections per day in the U.S. surged to an all-time high of 40,000.
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Texas reported more than 17,000 confirmed new cases in the past three days, with a record high of nearly 6,000 on Thursday.
In Florida, the agency that governs bars acted after the daily number of confirmed cases neared 9,000, almost doubling the previous record, set just two days earlier.
A number of the hardest-hit states, including Texas, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas, have Republican governors who have resisted mask-wearing requirements and largely echoed President Donald Trump’s desire to quickly reopen the economy.
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, center, speaks as Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, left, listen during a news conference with members of the Coronavirus task force at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, Friday, June 26, 2020.
[IPS] Dehradun, India -- According to the World Health Organization (WHO) at-least 15% of the population globally has some form or other of a disability- considered the world's largest minority population and one that any of us can join at any point in our lives. It therefore makes so much sense for each one of us to invest towards inclusion, so everyone has the right to live their life to their full potential and contribute meaningfully to society. This article seeks to highlight the updates from the disability world in the past
[Premium Times] Nigeria has a burgeoning youthful population as about 80 per cent of its over 200 million people are below 40 years of age.
Maurice Ashley, the first African American chess grandmaster, was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica on March 6, 1966. At age 12, his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where Ashley began to develop an interest in chess. Although he spent several hours a day playing and studying the game, he did not play well enough to qualify for his high school chess team, and instead had to develop his skills by playing in tournaments and informal games.
Ashley became a chess coach for New York City youth, a role which he filled from 1991 to 1997. Two of his youth teams, the “Raging Rooks” and the “Dark Knights,” won championships at a national level in the early 1990s. Ashley’s experience coaching young people in the city, where academic distractions were many, made advocating chess to youth an integral part of his life.
In 1993, Ashley graduated from the City College of New York. The same year, he married Michele Johnson. Their daughter, Nia, was born in 1994. Ashley released a CD-ROM called Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess in 1995. He also became a commentator for chess matches around this time, and commentated several of grandmaster Garry Kasparov’s famous chess matches, including those against Viswanathan Anand in 1995 and the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997.
Ashley felt that his personal playing skills were suffering, and chose to take time away from coaching in 1997 to focus on his own game. He spent much of each day studying and playing chess, and tournament wins naturally followed. In October 1999, he was officially awarded grandmaster status, the highest skill level in chess. Ashley was the first African American to hold the title.
As a new grandmaster, Ashley returned to advocacy and publishing. In 1999, he opened the Harlem Chess Center, although it closed in 2002 when funding fell short. In 2003, the US Chess Federation named Ashley Grandmaster of the Year. Ashley’s 2005 book Chess for Success describes how chess can be used to keep children away from trouble and focused on academics. In 2009, he published a
On June 11, more than 60 community members and business leaders engaged in discussions about the issues faced by homeless youth, many of whom contend with housing insecurity due to abuse, neglect, teen pregnancy, or LGBTQ issues.
Olympian Nzingha Prescod writes about the importance of high quality sports training to underserved communities and what she’s doing to help.
These voters make up more than 25% of the 2020 electorate.
A few weeks ago, Gary Community School Corporation leaders made a strategic decision to close West Side Leadership Academy (WSLA) for in-person instruction for two days after recovering unauthorized items […]
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At the risk of appearing redundant, I want to mirror what others have said in response to the recent series of deaths involving one Black woman and two Black men in three separate incidents at the hands of police or vigilantes, as well as the hundreds of other Black men and women murdered under the color of authority.
And more recently, George Floyd was choked to death on the streets of Minnesota in the most inhumane way by a cabal of police, one of which performed the execution by placing his knee on Floyd’s neck and bearing down with his full weight for more than nine minutes, smothering the life out of him while other officers abetted or stood guard during the execution.
The nation has witnessed far too many unjustified Black deaths at the hands of police and White vigilantes.
My first demonstration against police brutality occurred long ago when I joined a march against the Signal Hill Police Department in the City of Long Beach demanding justice and accountability for the death of a 21-year-old college football player named, Ron Settles, a promising running back who played for Cal State Long Beach in 1981.
In the meantime, we must not lose focus regarding why people across the country are protesting—a Black man was viciously murdered with brutal and excessive force by police in broad daylight—Floyd had no weapon and the officers were merely investigating an alleged “nonviolent” crime related to a counterfeit $20 bill.
[UNFPA] \"I walk through the trading centre on my way home and as I go, I sing a song in Luganda (a local language) 'SafeBoda SafeBoda, who needs a helmet?' Or 'For those who feel cold I have a coat for you*',\" said Betty Nagadya.
URBANA—University of Illinois Chancellor Robert Jones was recently elected to the National 4-H Council Board of Trustees. Jones joins celebrity chef and author Carla Hall as new trustees for the national youth development organization of which they are alums. Both share a passion for diversity in agriculture and food equity and will further support the organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.A Georgia native and 4-H alumnus,
The YMCA of Central New York welcomed a new leader as President and CEO earlier this year, who has big goals for expanding its reach and mission. Bertram
George Floyd is sadly one of many, many African Americans who have been the victim of racial profiling and brutality.
Two men participating in that march — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and UAW President Walter Reuther — were dedicated to breaking the color lines and fighting for equality in wages, opportunities, housing, healthcare and fair societal treatment.
Because of socioeconomic and environmental factors — many due to continued disparity in opportunities — when COVID-19 struck this country it hit people of color especially hard.
The task force will act in an advisory capacity to the Governor and study the causes of racial disparities in the impact of COVID-19 and recommend actions to immediately address such disparities and the historical and systemic inequities that underlie them.
When we look at the many tragic incidents over the past decades, most recently Mr. Floyd’s horrific death, I can only think that we as a nation failed this young man, as we have failed so many others.
[Nyasa Times] President Dr Lazarus Chakwera was on Tuesday conferred with a Vision Leadership Award by the Young Democrat Union of Africa (YDUA) during a ceremony held at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe.
Director Spike Lee did what he does best and created a short film right after the killing of George Floyd.
The project, called “3 Brothers — Radio Raheem, Eric Garner, and George Floyd,” was posted on his Twitter and Instagram accounts and connects the death of Floyd, Eric Garner, and Radio Raheem, the character in Lee’s 1989 film “Do the Right Thing.”
Because I’m looking at the faces and I see our white brothers and sisters joined with their black and brown sisters, arm in arm, step by step, in there… I haven’t seen this since I was 10 or 11, during the ’60s… the Vietnam War, black power movement, women’s movement… This is the next version of that.”
Lee also discussed his Vietnam War movie “Da 5 Bloods,” starring Chadwick Boseman and Delroy Lindo.
“The Vietnam War was the first war that was televised into homes… Me and my late brother Chris, we loved World War II films.
