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Nigerian teenager Faith Odunsi is putting the West African nation on the map after winning the Global Open Mathematics competition. She beat other contestants from Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States to emerge the winner with 40 points, with the second runner tailing her with 10 points. Odunsi, as the winner, walked away...
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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.
The 16-year-old white teen who was charged with plotting to kill Black churchgoers in Georgia was sentenced to four years in juvenile detention on Thursday.
600,000 Oxford/Astrazeneca doses are being given to frontline health workers, security personnel, persons over 60 years and those with pre-existing conditions.
Mali on Saturday pledged to investigate claims that the army killed dozens of civilians in its conflict-riven centre, as complaints about the military's conduct in the West African nation escalate.
Some 30 people were killed and a village burnt in the region, officials said, but it was unclear who was behind the latest violence.
Friday's attack targeted a Fulani village named Binedama in the volatile Mopti region, said Aly Barry, an official from Tabital Pulaaku, a Fulani association.
Two other local officials confirmed the attack to AFP, but gave a lower death toll of 26, adding that the village was torched and its chief killed.
Tabital Pulaaku, however, accused Malian soldiers of being responsible but AFP was unable to independently confirm this claim.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, announced Wednesday, June 17, 2020, that they have given $120 million toward scholarships at historically Black colleges and universities — the largest individual donation to the institutions to date. Spelman College, Morehouse College and the United Negro College Fund each received $40 million. The two colleges,... [Read More]
The system of racism and white supremacy continues to bear a heavy burden on African American communities throughout the U.S. This is manifested through a lack of employment, high incarceration rates as well as access to health care services. George Floyd’s death by Minneapolis police has brought about a seemingly national reckoning on racism and []
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Residents of the Senegalese capital Dakar have made a passionate appeal for the wearing of masks. Last week, locals in this West African nation protested against fresh restrictions to help curb spread of the coronavirus. Some want a mandatory regulation to force people to put on a mask.
Ivory Coast's government on Tuesday accused the opposition of \"plotting\" against the state after it vowed to set up a rival government following bruising presidential elections won in a landslide by the incumbent, Alassane Ouattara.
The standoff pitched the West African nation deeper into a three-month-old crisis that has claimed several dozen lives, triggering EU appeals for calm and dialogue.
Hours after 78-year-old Ouattara was declared victor with more than 94 percent of the vote, Justice Minister Sansan Kambile accused the opposition of \"acts of assault and plotting against the authority of the state.\"
The Abidjan public prosecutor has been asked to investigate, Kambile said, warning that \"all options are on the table.\"
Opposition leader Pascal Affi N'Guessan had told reporters late Monday that opposition parties and groups were forming a \"council of national transition.\"
\"This council's mission will be to... create a transitional government within the next few hours,\" N'Guessan said.
The goal, he said, was to \"prepare the framework for a fair, transparent and inclusive presidential election.\"
Ouattara's landslide in Saturday's vote had been widely expected -- two opposition leaders had called for a boycott of the ballot and a civil disobedience campaign.
But the protests and bloody clashes have also stirred traumatic memories of a crisis a decade ago that tore the country apart and dealt it lasting economic damage.
Around 3,000 people died after then-president Laurent Gbagbo refused to accept defeat by Ouattara.
N'Guessan late Monday said the \"transitional council\" would be led by opposition veteran Henri Konan Bedie, 86, a former president and long-term adversary of Ouattara.
\"Keeping Mr Ouattara as head of state could lead to civil war,\" he warned.
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In Abidjan, the economic capital, security forces blocked off roads close to Bedie's villa.
They fired teargas to disperse small groups of supporters and journalists outside, preventing the staging of a press conference called to follow up Monday night's announcement.
In Daoukro, an opposition stronghold 235 kilometres (146 miles) north of Abidjan, anti-Ouattara protesters were manning barricades.
\"These results are a farce, \" said one, who gave his name as Firmin. \"We are going to carry on with civil disobedience until Ouattara steps down.\"
In contrast, Ouattara supporters sang his praises, saying he had strived to end instability in the world's top cocoa producer and revive its battered economy.
\"He has worked hard for the country. He has to carry on, not just for us, but for our children,\" said Hamed Dioma, a scrap-metal worker in a rundown district of Abidjan.
\"We are going to party.\"
Anger sparked by Ouattara's quest for a third term has revived memories of past feuds left mostly unreconciled after a 2002 civil war split the country in two.
Thirty people died in clashes before Saturday's vote, often between local ethnic groups allied to the opposition and Dioula communities seen as close to Oua
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2016 famously accused Barack Obama of harboring an 'ancestral dislike of the British empire' that was borne out of the former American president being 'part-Kenyan'. Obama had removed from the Oval Office in his final year, a bust in honor of Winston Churchill, the World War II-era British prime...
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NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has altered the annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition Festival, but it will still go on, giving students the chance to show their talents virtually.
High school bands from around the country traditionally head to Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City for a multi-day competition.
“This year we are even more committed to recognizing our high school student musicians.
We applaud the dedication, spirit and commitment of the students, band directors, parents and schools,” said Wynton Marsalis, who is JALC’s managing and artistic director.
Essentially Ellington, named after jazz great Duke Ellington, is a free educational program that provides instruction and resources to jazz students nationwide.
“The Eddy,” a new Netflix music drama series that premieres Friday, seeks to pay homage to those encounters while also granting nods to the French New Wave film movement of the late 1950s, the refugee, the abused, and, of course, jazz.
Set in the margins of Paris, the series follows African American ex-pat Elliot Udo, played by Andre Holland, as he tries to keep his jazz club, The Eddy, afloat while caring for his troubled American biracial daughter Julie, played by Amandla Stenberg.
The idea for the eight-episode series came from a longtime dream of six-time Grammy Award winner Glen Ballard to tell a story about a jazz band making music in modern-day Paris.
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And that jazz club would show the real, new Paris, Ballard said.
Multi-talented Jowee Omicil, who plays saxophone in The Eddy, said he’s still pinching himself that he has the opportunity to portray a black jazz musician in Paris – something many of the greats before him never got the chance to do.
T. Sherman promised formerly enslaved Black Americans 40 acres of confiscated Confederate have contributed to the disparities Black Americans face in the workplace, financial trillion price tag on compensating African Americans for the cumulative damage of
A final year medical student appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court on Friday following allegations that he assaulted a fellow student on campus.
In her new book, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, historian Beryl Satter puts a human face on the often told story of racial discrimination in urban housing by following the career of her father, Chicago attorney Mark J. Satter, who was both an ardent defender of his mostly black clients who had been severely exploited by real estate speculators, and a property owner in an increasingly black neighborhood who some later accused of being a slumlord himself. Her account is a cautionary tale that reminds us that the ghettos of Americas largest cities are the consequence of large impersonal economic forces and of hundreds of individual decisions driven by self-interest and, on occasion, by selfless motives as well.
Family Properties deals with one of the most contentious questions of recent American history –- why so many urban neighborhoods changed so rapidly from white to black, and then decayed into slums. Yet the book originated in something very personal -- my curiosity about my father, Mark J. Satter.
He was a Jewish Chicago attorney with a largely black, working-class clientele. He was 49 years old when he died from a heart ailment in 1965; I, the youngest of his five children, was six. As I grew older, I picked up oddly mixed messages about him from my relatives. They told me he had been a well-known crusader for the oppressed. But they also spoke in more whispered tones about properties he had owned in what was now a black ghetto. He’d hoped that they would provide for his family. Instead, they had become worthless. They were sold shortly after his death. By then they were worth so little that their sale hadn’t even covered that winter’s coal bills -- and I understood that somehow, my relatives felt that he was to blame.
There was a mystery here, and so, a decade ago, I finally decided to investigate my father’s story. I began by reading my father’s papers, which had been saved by one of my brothers.
I was shocked by the stories they
With so much uncertainty about the future and talk regarding the possibility of a second wave, you may have serious concerns about sending your children back to daycare. Sadly, the reality for many working parents is that when their employer calls them back to work, they may not have many options aside from daycare.
At least two-thirds of American high school students attend a school with a police officer, according to the Urban Institute, and that proportion is higher for students of color.
In 43 states and the District of Columbia, Black students are more likely to be arrested than other students while at school, according to an analysis by the Education Week Research Center.
Federal data analyzed by the American Civil Liberties Union shows millions of students, especially students of color, attend schools that have police officers, but no nurse or school psychologist.
\"There isn't much evidence indicating that police officers in schools make schools safer,\" says Dominique Parris of the research organization Child Trends.
Morris says these alternative strategies can make schools safer and more welcoming for all students, without police.
Nancy and her family of five live in Aburokango Village, Atekiber Parish, Nambieso Sub-county, Kwania District.
Like thousands of child-headed households in Uganda, this family at Acwa A Village, Nambieso Sub-county in Kwania District, lacks many basic necessities such as food, clothing, and beddings.
The children, who live in dilapidated structures at Tarogali Village, Tarogali Parish, Ibuje Sub-county in Apac District, were orphaned as a result of domestic violence.
Child rights activists say children in child-headed households face a serious threat to their right to education because of poverty, difficulty in obtaining food and shelter.
Ms Josephine Omara Olili, the Alebtong Resident District Commissioner (RDC), acknowledges that little is being done to support extremely vulnerable people, including the orphans, the elderly, HIV/Aids patients and child-headed households.
Twenty advocacy groups from the US, Europe, Latin America and elsewhere signed a statement Wednesday urging regulators to be wary of Google’s US$2.1-billion bid for fitness tracker company Fitbit because of privacy and competition concerns.
Charles Diggs was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1922. His father was Charles Coles Diggs and his mother was Mayme Jones Diggs. Young Diggs had an upper middle class background; his father, a prominent mortician and real estate developer, served in the Michigan State Senate. Diggs eventually took over the family business and followed his father into politics.
As a high school student, Diggs was a star debater. He attended the University of Michigan and then Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1943 he was drafted into the Army Air Corps and stationed to Tuskegee Airfield. The war ended without Diggs ever seeing combat. He returned to Detroit and graduated from Wayne State University in 1946. In 1950 Diggs was elected to the Michigan State Senate. Four years later he became Michigan’s first black Congressman when in 1954 he was elected to represent Michigan’s Thirteenth Congressional District, then a predominately white area. He would represent the district for the next 26 years.
As a member of Congress in the 1950s, Diggs worked to promote the civil rights movement emerging across the nation. He was the only Congressman to attend the Mississippi trial of the men accused of murdering Emmett Till. He was especially interested in voting rights and fought to lower the voting age to 18. He also sponsored legislation to promote black voting rights in the South. While in Congress, Diggs chaired the House Subcommittee on Africa and the District of Columbia Committee.
Diggs devoted much of his legislative energy to crafting measures to fight unemployment and poverty. He supported War on Poverty legislation as well as other measures to reduce joblessness among African Americans both in his state and across the nation.
In 1969 Diggs became a founding member and the first chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. He used that position to criticize the policies of the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford Presidential Administrations which seemed, in his view, to encourage continued poverty and racial
By Ashley MossStaff Writer The Office of Community Care is partnering with Comp-U-Dopt and TXU to provide 250 free laptops to Dallas families that do not already have a computer …
When asked by Atlanta Black Star how she and Brasco were doing, Gates answered, “We’re good.
Although Gates and Brasco are currently on good terms, the pair were on rocky terms when her cast mate Benson played a pregnancy prank on her.
Gates, the mother of a 15-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son, said her first thought when seeing the positive pregnancy test was, “I ain’t got time to be having no babies right now.”
Gates grew up in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur and dropped out of high school at 15 while she was pregnant with her now-15-year-old daughter Paris Gates.
The April 13 episode centered on Gates’ teenage daughter Paris getting into a physical altercation at her North Atlanta High School in January.
Tavis Smiley is a well known talk show host and media personality. He was born on September 13, 1964 in Gulfport, Mississippi to a single teenaged mother named Joyce Marie Roberts. Joyce married a US Air Force Officer named Emory Garnell Smiley, and Tavis was named after his stepfather. He did not know about his biological father until he was much older, and in fact, never publicly revealed his real father’s name. Because of his stepfather’s transfer, the family moved to Indiana, where they lived in a three bedroom mobile home. Tavis had three other siblings, and when his mother’s sister died, four of her five children came to live with his family as well. As a result, Tavis, his parents, siblings and grandmother all lived together in their trailer home.
He belonged to a very religious family, and as a child, was hardly allowed to watch movies or any television shows that his parents didn’t approve of. Tavis was interested in politics from a very young age, which was sparked when he attended a fundraiser for U.S. Senator Birch Bayh at the age of 13. As a high school student, he was an active member of the student council and debate team. After high school, he enrolled at Indiana University Bloomington, with only a few possessions and $50 in his pocket. He completed the financial aid paperwork after his admission, where he worked, attended classes and lived off campus with the basketball team. He was also a member of the student senate and a director of minority affairs, along with being a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He was politically active, and organized student protests over the death of a black student by a white police officer.
He interned at the office of Los Angeles’ mayor Tom Bradley, and also considered attending Harvard Law School but didn’t take admission. He started his radio career at a local radio station named KGFJ, where he did a one minute segment called “The Smiley Report”. He also co-hosted a talk show in Los Angeles, where he aired his views on racism, economic opportunities
Doctors without Borders has returned to Guinea to battle the coronavirus.
“We have an epidemic that is much larger than that of Ebola but at the same time causes fewer deaths.
People who went into a centre like this one with Ebola had a 70 percent chance of dying, here it’s the opposite, we have a really low mortality rate”, said Arnaud Badinierm, Head of mission at MSF Guinea.
We have this Ebola experience which really helps us in the response to the COVID-19.
In Conakry, locals are worried about a steady rise in covid-19 cases.
… planting team has focused on African Americans, Hispanic and Asian groups — and …
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If you didn’t know, Uninterrupted, LeBron James’ media company, continually has a fire merch offering.
The power couple, with the help of Athletes For Impact, created a couple of printed hoodies in honor of the celebration.
The three Nike-branded hoodies –in heather gray, tan, and sky blue– feature a rainbow Pride flag, a lambda symbol –which began as a symbol of the New York chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance the 1970s– and text that reads, “Love is compassion / Love is bold / Love is unique / Love is loud / Love is freedom / Love is uninterrupted.”
You can cop the hoodie starting June 28 for $125 on UNINTERRUPTED’s webstore with 20% of the proceeds going to LGBTQIA+ organizations.
Just last month, LeBron teamed up with Travis Scott for a t-shirt to commemorate all of the 2020 graduates who experience a nontraditional ending to their semester with distance learning and not be able to proudly walk across the stage because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Therese Patricia Okoumou just upped the ante for silent protests for social justice.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) Cricket Australia said yesterday it has dropped the British-made Dukes ball from its 2020/21 Sheffield Shield season and will use only the Kookaburra to encourage more spin bowling on home pitches.
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Tesla outpaced analyst estimates for second-quarter vehicle deliveries on Thursday, defying a trend of plummeting sales in the wider auto industry as coronavirus-linked lockdown orders kept shoppers at home, and sending its shares up 8%.
The University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI) is the beneficiary of a grant from the National Commercial Bank Financial Group (NCBFG) through its NCB Foundation. The university was gifted J$25 million to assist students in need of financial support...
(Jamaica Star) Tahj-jai Sharpe, a Jamaican at the Howard University in Washington DC, in the US, had made plans to advance into post-grad school, but he is now worried about his future.
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