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Richelle Parham is making a career move by taking on a newly created role as Universal Music Group’s (UMG) President of Global E-Commerce and Business Development. UMG, which is the world leader in music-based entertainment, said that the position is a newly created role.
\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.
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Her father survived Jim Crow and saw the evolution of the vote in America, so Lex Scott speaks from a unique perspective when she champions African Americans’ historical significance casting their ballots. “When my father voted, his life was at risk,” remarked Scott, the president […]
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Kenneth E. Coleman has been named president and CEO of the Birmingham Business Alliance (BBA), the region’s leading economic development organization.
Coleman will be responsible for developing collaborative efforts between the BBA and its community partners to lead economic growth and expansion for the seven-county region, in addition to the day-to-day operations of the organization.
Coleman’s early career was spent in Birmingham, first playing professional baseball with the Birmingham Barons and later working in business development for the Metropolitan Development Board, a predecessor organization to the BBA.
Coleman joins the BBA as the economic development organization is developing its four-year strategic plan to drive growth in the seven-county region.
This process was spearheaded by BBA’s interim president and CEO Fred McCallum, who joined the organization in March 2019 and will help Coleman transition into his new position.
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries were divided on the issue of 'free and fair' elections in Venezuela, with The Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, and St Lucia all voting in favour of the resolution tabled at the 50th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) that ended here on Wednesday.
THE range of business services utilised by micro and small enterprises (MSEs), which is financed under the Development Bank of Jamaica's (DBJ) Voucher for Technical Assistance Programme (VTAP), is being widened to incorporate digital transformation.
According to general manager for strategic services at the DBJ, Christopher Brown, this is to enable eligible MSEs to acquire the requisite Web-based tools and other inputs that will reposition them to function more seamlessly during and after the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The voucher, which the bank introduced five years ago, is one of several MSE-tailored products that targeted entities can use to access technical support services from the DBJ's accredited Business Development Organisations (BDOs).
Brown said the provisions currently financed include business and marketing plan development; product testing and formulation support; and the generation of financial statements.
Additionally, Brown pointed out that market intelligence gleaned by the DBJ indicated that since March there has been increased demand for these services relative to others, coinciding with the onset of COVID-19.
… 47 years of cruelly betraying African-Americans.
He called them super-predators … half a century betraying the black Americans.
“He devastated black families with …
It could possibly be the long-awaited turning level on the earth of enterprise capital and past. Yale, whose $32 billion endowment has been led since 1985 by the legendary investor…
The robot revolution will create 97 million new jobs, but communities most at risk from disruption will need support from businesses and governments.
Producers of the Florida, New York, and Canada Grace Jamaican Jerk Festivals, along with Orlando and Palm Beach festivals, have partnered to celebrate the food, music, art, and the culture of jerk in an unprecedented way with National Jamaican Jerk...
Scott M. Mills is Viacom’s Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer. In this role, Mills is responsible for Human Resources, Media Technology Services, Real Estate, Programming Acquisitions, Facilities and Security.
Previously, Mills served as President and Chief Operating Officer for BET Networks. In this capacity, Mills led its business functions, including sales, finance, legal and business affairs, human resources, digital, research, strategic planning, business development, and administration. As COO, he also led the launch of BET’s CENTRIC channel.
Prior to that, Mills was Chief Financial Officer and President of Digital Media. As CFO, Mills was responsible for the company’s finance functions, including accounting, reporting, financial planning, tax, and treasury & controls.
By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A more measured President Donald Trump does not necessarily mean a more truthful one. In the final debate of the presidential campaign, he was loose with facts on the crisis of the time — the pandemic — and much else. Trump did, though, exploit confusion sowed by Joe Biden during the primaries, when the Democrat occasionally made his position on energy sound more to the left than it actually is. Trump accurately called out Biden when Biden denied he had ever vowed to ban fracking. That was never Biden's […]
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Pat Riley is casting some doubt on the LeBron James & Anthony Davis anchored Lakers that secured the NBA's first bubble chip. Speaking with Fox Sports, Riley said there will always be an asterisk next to the Laker's 2020 championship, and it has nothing to do with COVID-19 impacting the season.
By Dana Givens – The continent of Africa has become a major global hub for entertainment content with the popularity of Afrobeats and other cultural trends.
With superstars like Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage, WizKid, becoming more and more popular globally, entertainment scouts are looking to Africa for new talent.
Prior to her new show, Cuppy has made a name for herself in the industry as one of the most-sought-after-DJs on the continent also serving as the resident DJ for MTV2’s Uncommon Sense with Charlamagne tha God.
“The show represents a journey from West to East and North to South, but importantly a narrative of Africa then to Africa now,” Cuppy said in a statement to the Associated Press.
The announcement comes at the same time as Universal Music Group said they would be launching Def Jam Africa, a new division of the label focused on representing music talent in Africa to be based out of Johannesburg and Lagos, reports AP.
Businessman Duduzane Zuma was seen engulfed by crowds at a night club in KZN on Saturday after returning from Dubai.
Hundreds of laid-off service workers — many of them immigrants Trump has insulted — are getting out the vote in Nevada, Arizona, Florida and Pennsylvania.
Nationwide — Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail, President of Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina, has sadly died of COVID-19. He apparently contracting the virus from another person who also tested positive for the virus. He had just began serving as president of the HBCU in July. When McPhail, who is 71-years old, was informed that he came into contact […]
Nelly is an American rap musician and entrepreneur from Missouri who is known for chart topping singles such as Dilemma, Country Grammar and Hot In Here and for founding his own clothing line, non-profit charities and appearances in film and television roles. He was born as Cornell Haynes Jr. on November 2, 1974 in Austin, Texas but has adopted the stage name of Nelly. His father was in the U.S. military but his parents divorced when he was 7 years old and he moved from St. Louis to University City, Missouri. He had a troubled childhood, rife with financial difficulties and getting into fights. In high school he played baseball and showed promise of going pro. He also showed interest in music from a young age, and formed a high school band by the name of The St. Lunatics. The band achieved some measure of success with their hit single “Gimme What Ya Got”. However, they failed to procure a record deal so Nelly decided to take his career solo.
He signed a contract with Universal Music Group in 1999 and launched his debut album titled “Country Grammar” in 2000. The album was a hit and debuted at No. 3 in the Billboard 200 Chart and reached number 1 on the Album Chart. It went platinum nine times over in the U.S. and featured other well known artists such as Lil Wayne, and his former high school band, The St. Lunatics. The first single on it, titled “Country Grammar” reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and No. 1 on the rap chart. Other songs on the album were also received well.
The next year, Nelly released an album with his band St. Lunatics, titled “Free City”. This album also went platinum in the U.S. and Nelly soon released his second solo album titled “Nellyville”. This was another huge hit, going platinum 6 times in the U.S. and being nominated for “Album of the Year” at the 2003 Grammy Awards. The song “Hot In Here” featured on this album was featured at No. 1 on the charts and received the award for “Best Male Rap Solo Performance” at the Grammys. The album boasted several other major hits
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is today scheduled to meet Matabeleland traditional leaders in Bulawayo to, among other things, discuss the emotive Gukurahundi issue, marginalisation and development of the region. This is not the first time that Mnangagwa has met traditional leaders from the region to discuss festering issues in the region, but there is a worrying trend that these indabas are becoming empty talkshows. The President has also met members of the Matabeleland Collective (MC) at the State House in the city not once, but more than twice. In all these engagements, regional leaders have been clear that they will not settle for anything less than a sincere Gukurahundi apology and a truth-telling process led by the chiefs and civic society organisations from the region. They contend that this is key towards finding a lasting solution to Gukurahudi. In all the past engagements, Mnangagwa has skirted over the apology part and rushed to facilitate exhumations and reburials of Gukurahundi victims and issuance of identity documents to the survivors. This has left many affected citizens sceptical over his sincerity in dealing with the issue. They still believe that Mnangagwa, as one of the perpetrators, must not dictate the direction to be taken, but allow them to lead the healing process. In short, he should talk less and listen more. That's true statesmanship. The message has been very clear that the President cannot put the cart before the horse. From Mangwe to Tsholotsho, Bulawayo and Nkayi — demands of an acknowledgment, apology and a truth-telling process before reburials are uniform. Why does he now want to fast-track an issue that is as old as the country’s independence? We wonder why Mnangagwa is not doing the right thing. Mnangagwa should listen to the people who were affected in order to make his meetings meaningful. If the meetings fail to achieve anything, the people of Matabeleland will lose confidence in him and those meetings will be a wasted opportunity to resolve the crisis. Mnangagwa should simply own up to the atrocities, apologise and seek the consent of the victims on how they would want the crisis to be resolved. This is a key ingredient of transitional justice.
