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[The Conversation Africa] Ethiopia's government, under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, is carrying out a military offensive in Tigray, Ethiopia's most northern state. A six month state of emergency has been declared in the region. Dozens of casualties have been reported amid fears that nine million people are at risk of being displaced.
\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.
This article is about the infighting that many in the Black community go through, but few address. It's about an ethnic divide, and a shared yet divided legacy of being Black and American.
New CARICOM Chair Ralph Gonsalves today urged respect of yesterday's Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling by all stakeholders and he said he expected an early declaration by GECOM of the result of the March 2nd general elections.
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By: David Johnson/ BNC Digital Reporter Indianapolis (BNC) - You may not know their names, but chances are you know their music.Tyscot Music and Entertainment is the oldest black owned gospel recording company in the world, and home to some of the biggest names in gospel music. The recording company's origins began in Indianapolis, Indiana where Scott and Tyson began writing music in the mid 70’s. By 1976, the pair was well on their way to making gospel music history. To finance the label Scott, a dentist, took his salary and joined with Tyson to record music in []
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Liberia /l aɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə/ ( listen), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to its north and Ivory Coast to its east. It covers an area of 111,369 square kilometers (43,000 sq mi) and has a population of 4,503,000 people.[3] English is the official language and over 20 indigenous languages are spoken, representing the numerous tribes who make up more than 95% of the population. The countrys capital and largest city is Monrovia.
Forests on the coastline are composed mostly of salt-tolerant mangrove trees, while the more sparsely populated inland has forests opening onto a plateau of drier grasslands. The climate is equatorial, with significant rainfall during the May–October rainy season and harsh harmattan winds the remainder of the year. Liberia possesses about forty percent of the remaining Upper Guinean rainforest. It was an important producer of rubber in the early 20th century.
The Republic of Liberia began as a settlement of the American Colonization Society (ACS), who believed blacks would face better chances for freedom in Africa than in the United States.[7] The country declared its independence on July 26, 1847. The United Kingdom was the first country to recognize Liberias independence.[8] The U.S. did not recognize Liberias independence until during the American Civil War on February 5, 1862. Between January 7, 1822 and the American Civil War, more than 15,000 freed and free-born blacks, who faced legislated limits in the U.S., and 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans, relocated to the settlement.[9] The black settlers carried their culture and tradition with them to Liberia. The Liberian constitution and flag were modeled after those of the U.S. On January 3, 1848, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a wealthy, free-born African American from Virginia who settled in Liberia, was elected
The result, from their perspective: a \"stifling atmosphere\" that leaves no room for \"experimentation, risk taking, and even mistakes\"; one that makes \"good-faith disagreement\" impossible, punishes those who \"depart from the consensus\" and \"makes everyone less capable of democratic participation.\"
I'm sure many of those who signed it believe they're taking a courageous moral stand with their screed, released, as it was, on the anniversary of so many historical moments associated with freedom of expression and defiance of convention: The posthumous acquittal of Joan of Arc for the crime of heresy in 1456; the radio debut of Elvis Presley in 1954; the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female Supreme Court justice in 1981; and the ruling in 1992 by New York's Court of Appeals that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
But while Thomas Chatterton Williams, who reportedly championed the effort behind the letter, has taken pains to point out how its signers represent a diverse cross-section of races, genders, sexual orientations and political perspectives, they also all have access to enormous public platforms and an outsized ability to project their personal opinions to the world. As a result, it's hard not to see the letter as merely an elegantly written affirmation of elitism and privilege.
Williams has acknowledged concern over the timing of this effort. But noting the bad timing does not excuse that it was, in fact, bad timing. As thousands die from coronavirus, these signatories are expressing concern over viral hashtags. As the streets fill with protesters shouting \"Black Lives Matter,\" they're metaphorically shouting \"Our Words Matter.\" As society becomes increasingly aware of the devastating impact of police brutality, these signatories have chosen to shift attention to an imaginary political correctness police.
Concerns over PC culture seem to have long been a preoccupation for the letter's ringleaders. Williams has previously written in the pages of Harper's about his concerns over the left's \"fanaticism\" and \"totalitarianism.\" Mark Lilla, who according to the New York Times was involved in early conversations that sparked the letter, has spent much of the past four years denouncing efforts to bring diversity and inclusion initiatives to politics and calling for society to move beyond identity politics. George Packer, another early participant in discussions that led to the letter, has used his prestigious platforms at The New Yorker and The Atlantic to warn at length of how culture wars are threatening our children, in the form of privilege checklists, gender-neutral bathrooms and school integration.
In short, none of what's in the letter is new for the men cited by the New York Times as initiating the discussions from which the letter took form (and yes, all of them are men, and all but one are white, and the one nonwhite man, Williams, wrote a book about abandoning his Blackness in favor of a postracial self-image).
What's different no
