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Each year, Jamaica celebrates National Youth Month in November. This year, the theme for the month is ‘RETHINK Youth: Resilient through Entrepreneurship, Training, Hope, Innovation, Networking and Knowledge’. To celebrate National Youth Month 2020...
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.
The 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day comes during a big election year, with 65 major elections worldwide. Register, grab your friends and vote green.
Send an email with the subject “summer camps” in the subject field to moving operations online or proceeding with on-site programs, summer camp leaders are rethinking protocols to limit contact and prioritize the safety of their staff, campers and families.
Many of the campers who typically attend weekly in-person programs are the children of essential workers who depend on camp services as child care, said Lynn Greb, the recreation director for the Milwaukee Recreation Department, which runs through Milwaukee Public Schools.
Summit Educational Association, which normally runs a full time, seven-week program for students in the fourth to eighth grades, also plans to provide an in-person camp, with programs scheduled to run five days a week starting June 22 until Aug. 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Here are more updates on how local programs are adapting their summer programming due to COVID-19:
The 7 Generations YEP Summer Day Camp at the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center has always been a space for native youth ages 7 to 12 to participate in activities focused on well-being, mental health and their indigenous culture.
Families can reach out to Lynn Anders, the environmental education manager, at a nonprofit that typically hosts tutoring and sports camps all summer long, plans to continue programs virtually through live fitness workout videos on its Facebook page Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Jabbar, the all-time leading scorer in NBA history who earned six world titles, boycotted the 1968 Olympics in the wake of social unrest and the aftermath of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In a live interview with the BlackPressUSA, Jabbar said he believes the murder of George Floyd by police and the subsequent protests around the globe, signal a sea change.
“Across America, people of all descriptions got an understanding of what it means to be a Black American, to be singled out and discriminated against,” Jabbar said during the interview, co-hosted by Brandon Brooks, Managing Editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel.
Jabbar commended his fellow athletes for their history of activism, including LeBron James, who has spoken out about Floyd’s murder.
“It is really important for athletes, especially those in African-American communities and communities of color, to speak out because the young people in those communities look up to athletes as the people that set the tone and have the knowledge and courage to do what is right,” Jabbar insisted.
Former The Young and the Restless star Shemar Moore gave an interesting, to say the least, point of view on race relations in America, using his own life as a bi-racial Black man as the basis for his argument.
But I am proud to be Black, but I am also proud to be white,” Moore began.
While Moore clearly identifies as a Black man, he should also know that he’s not denouncing his white parent by doing so.
And the argument of using there’s good and bad sides to all races doesn’t hold up when we are clearly talking about how Black people are targeted and limited in their access to equality based on their skin color.
But, the actor did say he will use his platform to highlight what’s happening to Black people in America and vowed to use influence at work to make it apparent to network executives that they should also be on the right side of history.
The Savannah (GA) Chapter, The Links, Incorporated, launched the Tech for Kids Campaign for Chromebooks in response to the Savannah Chatham Public School System’s decision to open the 2020- 21 school year as a virtual learning environment. Angela B. Young, Chapter President said Chapter members began discussing how they could make a difference in this community during the COVID pandemic. … Continue reading \"Pittman Enterprise Joins Savannah Chapter of The Links, Inc. To Make $32,500 Donation to Tech for Kids, Campaign for Chromebooks\"
As Covid-19 development statistics trickle in every day, one has to wonder where coronavirus will push the swelling youth unemployment.
BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES The Volusia County Supervisor of Elections Office has reported that 106,739 voters cast ballots during the 2020 primary with voter turnout at 28 percent. It’s reported to be the highest total in a primary in 18 years. The turnout was higher than the 2016 primary, which was 27 percent. Turnout […]
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YouTuber Shane Dawsons disgusting reaction to an 11-year-old Willow Smith has gotten him in big trouble, again. An almost decade-old clip of the popular influencer has resurfaced. In it, he appears to be masturbating to a poster of an under-aged Smith. READ MORE: Willow Smith will explore her anxiety while trapped in glass box for []
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Very few young News24 readers in particular expect to get Covid-19 in the future.
City of New Orleans NEW ORLEANS- Recently, Councilmember-At-Large Helena Moreno, in partnership with the Cantrell Administration, filed a millage resolution lowering the overall ad valorem, or property, tax rates for New Orleanians. This is the [...]
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Legislators across the political divide said “our children cannot be used as experiments” during debate on a report which was presented by chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga.
In response, Ncube said he was still waiting for the Primary and Secondary Education as well as the of Higher and Tertiary Education ministries to give him their budget breakdowns on re-opening of schools amidst COVID-19.
“The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education said they will need $21 billion to reopen schools.
As recommendations, the committee said the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council examination dates recently announced were not practical.
All MPs that contributed to the debate said there must not be a rush to re-open schools, even suggesting that schools can as well open next year if COVID-19 remains a serious threat as education is for the living.
She was joined by Barack and Michelle Obama for the address.
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said she has not physically joined in the protests over the death of George Floyd, but is being supportive in other ways, believing that young people should lead and her participation would only “distract” from the demonstrators’ message.
“I appreciate the instinct of leaders to join in these protests, but too often our presence distracts from their message,” Abrams, the former top Democrat in the Georgia House, told CNN’s Don Lemon on Thursday.
Instead, Abrams said, she’s been supporting protesters with bail funds and lawyers and helping get the message out.
Abrams said her decision not to physically march with the protesters is informed by her past experience as a student helping lead a 1992 protest in response to Rodney King’s brutal beating by Los Angeles police.
Abrams also criticized the decision for law enforcement on Monday to clear the area around the White House of peaceful protesters using tear gas and rubber bullets so President Donald Trump could walk to the St. John’s Church for a photo-op.
Most of the crowd of estimated hundreds this past weekend that flowed from Federal Plaza to Michigan Avenue and the Magnificent Mile as well as to other Loop streets were young people—white, Black and brown—who echoed a united call for change.
And with funeral services continuing this weekend for Floyd, the African-American man who died on May 25, saying, “I can’t breathe” and with the knee of a Minneapolis police officer on his neck, the call for justice and protests are likely to continue for days, if not weeks.
Millennials of all races united in protests sparked by what many are calling the murder of Floyd, 46, who died while now former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee against his neck.
Chauvin, who is white, has been charged with 3rd-degree murder and manslaughter, although three other officers, also at the scene and who are seen on a video either holding Floyd down or standing idly by while Chauvin presses his knee against Floyd’s neck, have not been charged.
The downtown Chicago protests this past weekend were mostly peaceful, at least while daylight lasted, although by nightfall the city was engulfed in widespread looting downtown that spread to other areas.
By RICK RYCROFT and FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of people rallied in Australia and Europe to honor George Floyd and to voice support Saturday for what is becoming an international Black Lives Matter movement, as a worldwide wave of solidarity with protests over the death of a Black man in Minneapolis highlights racial discrimination outside the United States.
Floyd, a Black man, died in handcuffs on May 25 while a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee on his neck even after he pleaded for air and stopped moving.
In Sydney, there was one early scuffle when police removed a man who appeared to be a counter protester carrying a sign reading, “White Lives, Black Lives, All Lives Matter.”
Wearing masks and black shirts, dozens of demonstrators marched through a commercial district amid a police escort, carrying signs such as “George Floyd Rest in Peace” and “Koreans for Black Lives Matter.”
In Berlin, thousands of mostly young people, many dressed in black and wearing face masks, joined a Black Lives Matter protest in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, or Alexander Square, on Saturday.
Western Bureau: Despite the buzz around his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) challenger, Tamika Davis, Ian Hayles of the People’s National Party (PNP) is flush with confidence that come September 3, he will retain his seat as member of parliament (MP)...
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier
In 2014 a White police officer shot and killed a Black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
The shooting wasn’t recorded, but eyewitnesses insisted that the Black teenager was killed with his hands up, begging the White officer not to shoot.
The police commissioner acknowledged most of the arrest made were of local residents, but he stressed “outside agitators continued to be the instigators behind the acts of violence and destruction.”
Schneider ignored the fact that Capt. Johnson didn’t just call the people from out of state outsiders he listed Missourians who weren’t from Ferguson as outside agitators too.
But the riots were blamed on disadvantaged youth, the police claim of outside agitators was labeled a myth, and the story within the story disappeared.
[IPS] At the end of her first week on strike in August 2018, Greta Thunberg handed out flyers that said: \"You grownups don't give a shit about my future.\" Her appearance at the 2019 UN Climate Summit capped a year in the spotlight for the teenage climate activist. Delegates at the summit gave her a standing ovation, but the sound of their applause couldn't mask Greta Thunberg's deep frustration.
Press Release - "We received carpentry training in Mavivi as well as tools such as saws and planers which have been handed over to us today. I'm sure we're going to make a better use of them", said Muhindo Kiriki Siméon, a vulnerable young man from Mavivi, Beni, North Kivu.
Howard University President Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick, who is also a physician, has a preliminary diagnosis for America’s condition while...
Around 200 people turned out Monday for a protest in a poor Nairobi neighbourhood against police violence linked to the deaths of 15 people nationwide since the authorities imposed a curfew to fight coronavirus.
Kenya's Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) reported last week it had received 87 complaints against police since the dusk-to-dawn curfew and heightened security measures were imposed on March 27.
In recent days, cities around the world have seen massive protests against racism and police violence prompted by last month's police killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man in the US state of Minnesota.
In April, Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the police of imposing the coronavirus curfew in a \"chaotic and violent manner from the start\", sometimes whipping, kicking and teargassing people to force them off the streets.
On Thursday, the IPOA announced six police officers would be arrested and prosecuted - one for Moyo's death; another for shooting dead a secondary school teacher while responding to a burglary at a market in western Siaya; and four others for seriously assaulting a man during an arrest.
NEW RESEARCH released by the YMCA has exposed the shocking numbers of young, Black children...
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HEAD of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jamaica, Archbishop Kenneth Richards, has expressed concern about the absence of religious leaders in Catholic schools across the island, a staple which he says is responsible for the academic excellence and discipline in these schools.
During an interview with the Jamaica Observer, Archbishop Richards revealed that Catholic high schools traditionally led by religious sisters or nuns, and religious brothers, except for Holy Childhood High, no longer have a religious leadership tied to the Catholic Church.
Further, Archbishop Richards said the absence of religious sisters and brothers in Catholic schools has affected the culture, community, values and attitudes of the institutions.
“Part of the discipline that existed in our schools was a spin-off from the Catholic ethos and what the religious sisters, brothers and priests embodied with respect to how they approach engaging the students academically, socially with respect to their development.
Archbishop Richards added: “We are looking at how to use our lay leaders and retired persons — how they can volunteer to become present to help us with presence in our schools to facilitate the kind of engagement that is missing because we do not have the religious sisters again with respect to nurturing those values.
“I used that opportunity to make him know I felt this post was inflammatory and harmful, and let him know where we stood on it,” Mr. Zuckerberg told Facebook employees.
But though he voiced displeasure to the president, he reiterated that Mr. Trump’s message did not break the social network’s guidelines.
The Facebook chief held firm even as the pressure on him to rein in Mr. Trump’s messages intensified.
Civil rights groups said late Monday after meeting with Mr. Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, that it was “totally confounding” that the company was not taking a tougher stand on Mr. Trump’s posts, which are often aggressive and have heightened tensions over protests on police violence in recent days.
And protesters showed up late Monday to Mr. Zuckerberg’s residential neighborhood in Palo Alto, Calif., and also headed toward the social network’s headquarters in nearby Menlo Park.
The LSE Black Achievement Conference is still going strong in its 13th year! This year...
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Dear Editor: I think we can all agree that Voting is the foundation of our Democracy. Most of us can also agree to equal rights for all. Right now, we … Continued
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Let me share a few “truths” that not only have many of us heard about, but many things are specific to poor people and African-Americans in this country.
For millions or Black, brown, and poor people in this country, that is not an option.
This “truth” shows that a whole lot of people are left out when the CDC and other officials tell folks who are already bunkered down, that if they think they have symptoms, “don’t go to the hospital; call your doctor first”.
Let’s start with the complexity of many households and families in most of the urban cities where the majority of the poor, Black, and brown people live.
I felt it was important to write this particular column, so that we are all clear about the specific impacts of this pandemic, and how it will disproportionately impact black, brown, and poor people in ways that others won’t be affected.
