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BY MARK KENNEDY ASSOCIATED PRESS There’s an iconic photograph of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that was taken as he triumphantly boarded one of the first integrated buses in Montgomery, Alabama. It was 1956 and King looks out a window, firmly at the front of the bus, almost gazing toward his movement’s next big […]
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The court enjoys global jurisdiction.
Investigators will now need the authorization of the court’s judges to open a probe. Bensouda appealed for support from Nigeria’s government.
She said the army has dismissed accusations against government troops after examining them.
Boko Haram strictly opposes formal education. In 2015, Nigeria enlisted the support of neighbors Chad, Cameroon and Niger to try and defeat the group.
While the joint operations made the group lose considerable territory, they have not been able to wipe it out.
The ICC has conducted investigations in several African countries. In Sudan, Libya and Ivory Coast, former leaders were indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after the investigations.
Two tough years in the making, there were days when Longevity founder Phil Long, 60, wasn’t sure the marriage of his small business, one of the nation’s few certified black-owned wineries, with Bronco Wine Co., one of the largest wine producers in the U.S., would happen.
But in early March, Long found himself in Texas, launching two new Longevity wines bottled by Bronco in quantities way beyond anything Long could have produced on his own, all earmarked for distribution in major outlets most small winemakers don’t even dream about.
“I’d been making 150 cases of Longevity’s white label chardonnay here a year,” says Long, sitting in his boutique northern California winery, surrounded by wine barrels and awards, including one for 2018 Livermore Valley Winery of the Year.
Longevity’s being a certified minority-owned business heightened its appeal for Bronco along with the love story at the heart of the brand, according to Joey Franzia, Bronco’s national sales and marketing director, who told Wine Business Monthly that Long’s passion for the business was also a draw: “He has developed an exceptional brand, with a great pedigree, and we saw an opportunity to share in his vision and grow in the distribution channel.”
Phil and Debra Long of Longevity Wines (Image courtesy of Phil Long)
“From the beginning, I’ve had my hand in every detail,” says Long who created the company name and logo—a heart of interwoven grapevines made for Debra which graces every Longevity bottle and is also tattooed on Long’s arm.
Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted in New Haven, Conn., court of conspiracy to murder Alex Rackley, and alleged FBI informant. Charges against other defendants in the case were later dismissed.
This year has been filled with unforeseen challenges and heartache for millions of people around the globe. With the world completely shut down during quarantine, many found comfort in watching attention-grabbing television shows and movies to quickly escape the tremulous state of this pandemic, even if just for an hour. Here is a review of some of the top streaming […]
Jacob Blake was shot several times in the back on video.
Fans around the globe are mourning the loss of iconic \"Black Panther\" actor Chadwick Boseman, who died Friday from colon cancer at the age of 43.
An earlier national law —The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 — gave the U.S. Food and Drug Administration full authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing and sale of tobacco products.
In addition, two organizations – Action of Smoking and Health and the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council — have banded together in a lawsuit against the FDA for failure to fulfill its mandate to remove menthol from the marketplace.
Massachusetts became the first state to restrict the retail sale of not only menthol but also all flavored tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars and chew.
Smoking of all flavored products – Including menthol – is now restricted to smoking bars for onsite consumption, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
The sale of non-flavored nicotine vaping products is restricted to licensed, adult-only retail smoke shops and smoking bars.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé used her platform Sunday while accepting the BET humanitarian award to relay a direct appeal to viewers: Go vote. “Your voices are being heard and you’re proving to our ancestors that their struggles were not in vain,” said the superstar singer at the BET Awards, which celebrated its 20 years []
by Oseye Boyd Some days the rage inside of me boils over to the point where I want to scream. Other times, I just want to crawl into a ball … Continued
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… wake of the death of black Americans Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and … the best unemployment numbers for African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans … been for decades. Thousands more African-Americans are victims of violent crime …
Richard J. McIver was first appointed to fill a vacancy on the Seattle City Council in early 1997 and was subsequently reelected to three full four-year terms in 1997, 2001, and 2005.
Councilmember McIver, was a fifth-generation Seattleite, was born on June 14, 1941 to Mildred Artis-McIver and William McIver, II. He attended Horace Mann Elementary School, graduated from James A. Garfield High School, and earned an interdisciplinary BA in Community Development, with major emphasis in finance and urban planning, from Western Washington University, Fairhaven College in Bellingham. In 2003, he was named “Distinguished Alumnus” by the Western Washington University Alumni Association.
Councilmember McIver chaired the Council’s Housing & Economic Development Committee. McIver and served on the board of the Washington State Housing Finance Commission, a quasi governmental agency working to increase housing affordability and access through the promotion of homeownership and the development of non-profit low income housing. He also served on the Puget Sound Regional Council’s Economic Development and Operations Committee.
Immediately prior to his 1997 appointment to the Council, McIver was Executive Director of the Washington Association of Community Economic Development (WACED), a statewide association of community-based non-profit organizations committed to revitalization of disadvantaged communities. McIver also served as Development Director for the Tacoma (Washington) Housing Authority, where he was responsible for acquisition, rehabilitation, development, and construction of affordable housing projects.
In 2009 McIver chose not to stand for reelection. He sufferered a stroke in 2010 and died in Seattle on March 9, 2013. He is survived by his wife, Marlaina Kiner-McIver, an attorney, and a daughter and son.
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Fourth District City Council Member Monica Montgomery is to be commended for her proposal to create a Department of Race and Equity within the City of San Diego.
The City of San Diego has several Commissions that should already be addressing issues of race and equity.
All these organizations appointed by the Mayor, with confirmation from the City Council, have done very little to change the many problems within the City of San Diego, from discrimination and inequality in salaries and promotions within the city itself to the treatment of residents by such entities as the San Diego Police Department.
Will the Mayor truly support such a department where he has failed such existing commissions like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which has been unable to produce a real report on equity and employment in the city’s current departments and programs?
This is the same Mayor to whom it was suggested that we create a Department on Youth Employment and Education in the City of San Diego to provide internships for the City’s youth, separate and apart from the Workforce Partnership, as a means of making a line item commitment to youth employment.
A. Philip Randolph helped plan a march on Washington(Lincoln Memorial) to demonstrate to the government the strengh and commitment of black people to civil rights. A. Philip Randolph fought for justice and for the advancement of African Americans.
