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Fans of Megan Thee Stallion are trying to shift the public’s attention away from what they believe to be a misogynistic narrative around the current trial against Tory Lanez, who is accused of shooting the rapper in the foot. Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, was charged in 2020 with assault with a semi-automatic […]
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The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
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Korryn Gaines was 23 when she was fatally shot by Baltimore County Police during a six-hour standoff in Randallstown in 2016. Gaines’ five-year-old son, Kodi, was with her in the apartment during the standoff and was also struck across the cheek by one of the bullets. He had to undergo several surgeries to remove the...
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Claims of Bias
The defence lawyers of Omar al-Bashir doubled down on their allegation of bias and ineligibility against the prosecutor general Tagelsir al-Hebr of the ousted Sudanese president’s case. Bashir found guilty last December of corruption and currently on trial since July 21st for undermining constitutional order and the use of military force to commit a crime could face the death penalty if convicted. After a gruelling almost two-hour session, the judge decided to adjourn the media covered trial - which is broadcast on Sudanese television, for a week to November 10.
Background
Bashir was in power for 30 years until the military overthrew him on April 11, 2019, following unprecedented mass youth-led street demonstrations. Since his fall from position, Bashir has been jailed in Khartoum's high-security Kober prison and has also been indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the deadly conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan that broke out in 2003.
The United Nations estimates 300,000 people were killed and 2.5 million displaced in the conflict.
Last month, Sudanese officials met with ICC top prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to explore options of trying Bashir over genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
TORY LANEZ has denied shooting rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Lanez, whose real name is Daystar...
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by Minister Louis Farrakhan (The following text is excerpted from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s address at the 1995 Million Man March on Washington, which drew some two million Black men to the steps of Congress and the National Mall. To order this incredible address in its entirety on CD, DVD or MP3, call 1-866-602-1230 … Continued
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It's been a traumatic week for Megan Thee Stallion. The Houston rapper was not feeling people making light of the fact she was shot, that didn't stop 50 Cent for doing what he does best, and that is trolling on social media.
History was made at this year’s NFL draft, but it wasn’t because of the athletes. For the first time ever, more than half the players selected in the first round…
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The "Broke in a Minute" rapper's former bodyguard said he has never seem him hurt a female.
The Texas rapper slams Tory Lanez.
Former Burundian President Pierre Buyoya, who is the current High Representative of the African Union for Mali and the Sahel, \"rejected\" Wednesday his conviction in absentia in Burundi to life imprisonment for the murder of his predecessor Melchior Ndadaye in 1993.
\"We reject these judgements, which can in no way commit us,\" a statement from him signed by co-defendants says.
\"Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, the new government has just proved to the world that it follows this line of lawlessness,\" they said.
Melchior Ndadaye, Burundi's first democratically elected president and the first Hutu to come to power, was assassinated in October 1993 in a military coup that would lead the country into a civil war between the army, dominated by the Tutsi minority, and Hutu rebel groups. It will result in 300,000 deaths until 2006.
Mr. Ndadaye had succeeded Mr. Buyoya, carried by the army in power in 1987 and who became president again in a new coup between 1996 and 2003, before handing over power to Domitien Ndayizeye, a Hutu, under a peace agreement signed in 2000 in Arusha (Tanzania).
Mr. Buyoya was convicted of \"attack against the head of state, attack against the authority of the state and attack tending to bring about massacre and devastation\", according to the text which only contains the operative part (conviction and sentence) of the decision handed down by the Supreme Court.
The name of Pierre Buyoya had already been cited in connection with this assassination, without the beginning of any proof being provided.
Eighteen senior military and civilian officials close to the former head of state were sentenced to the same sentence, three others to 20 years in prison for \"complicity\" in the same crimes and only one, the former transitional Prime Minister, Antoine Nduwayo, was acquitted.
Only five defendants, four retired Tutsi high-ranking officers and a serving police general, Ildephonse Mushwabure, were present at the trial.
According to Mr. Buyoya, the trial was conducted \"in violation of the Arusha Accords\" and was neither \"fair\" nor \"equitable\" as the rights of the defence were allegedly violated.
Tyrone Rowe called ‘Cobra’ was yesterday released from prison after completing his sentence for the 2010 killing of Troy Collymore, who he shot after a robbery at a Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, pharmacy.
Just over a year ago, Rowe, who was initially indicted for murder, pleaded not guilty to the capital offence but threw himself at the mercy of the court as he admitted instead to the lesser offence of manslaughter.
Justice Navindra Singh would later sentence Rowe to 15 years for the killing and nine years for the armed robbery.
Expressing his remorse to Justice Singh, Rowe had begged the judge for lenience, while stating that he was truly sorry for what had happened, and wanted to be given an opportunity to care for his mother, whom he said had been diagnosed with cancer.
Noting the lengthy time Rowe had been behind bars, Justice Singh had asked him his plans once released.
If he had lived long enough to have his day in court, Jeffrey Epstein would have been acquitted or triggered a mistrial, his former lawyer says. “It was foolish of him to kill himself because he had a pretty strong defense,” Alan Dershowitz, former Harvard Law School professor and onetime defense attorney for Epstein, said […]
City officials blamed the statue's "role in perpetuating harmful prejudices and obscuring the role of Black Americans in shaping the nation’s freedoms."
A top French appeals court is to rule today on whether alleged Rwandan genocide financier Felicien Kabuga will stand trial in France or face a UN tribunal in Tanzania.
Kabuga, who is 84 but claims to be 87, was arrested in May at his home outside Paris after 25 years on the run.
In 1994, the Rwandan genocide of some 800,000 (eight hundred thousand) people by Hutu extremists targeted rival Tutsis as well as moderate Hutus.
Kabuga, who was once one of Rwanda's richest men, is alleged to have funnelled money to militia groups.
He is also accused of setting up a militia that carried out massacres as well as radio broadcasts inciting people to murder.
A French court ruled in June that he should stand trial in Tanzania but his lawyers appealed, citing fears that an African UN tribunal would be biased.
Kabuga has diabetes, high blood pressure and leukoaraiosis, an incurable illness that erodes physical and cognitive abilities, his lawyer said.
The following is a speech given by Frederick Douglass on July 5th, 1852. He was initially asked to give the speech when the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Association invited him to speak at their July Fourth Independence Day Celebration in Rochester, N.Y. He refused to speak on that day and instead gave his speech on the []
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“Floyd’s murder is the latest example of 400 years worth of terrorism against Black people,” said Kofi Taharka, chairman of the National Black United Front.
“George Floyd’s murder is emblematic of the historical relationship between Black people and law enforcement,” stated Kimathi Nelson, presiding bishop of the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church.
Walker added that during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, local and state police coordinated with the nation’s highest policing organization, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to purposefully attack, discredit and some say even murder Black leaders and organizations, primarily through its Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) founded by then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
But the blatant and widespread acts of injustice by police officers against unarmed Black people are turning this demographic shift into a new political movement.
Shot in the back of the head by police officer who was found guilty of murder).
Fourteen people have gone to trial in Paris for their alleged involvement in the 2015 attacks on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket.
The suspects, going to the docks on Wednesday, are accused of providing logistical support to the gunmen and could face 20-year sentences.
Three are being tried in absentia as they are believed to have fled to Iraq and Syria, where the Islamic State group at the time declared their \"caliphate\".
The attacks spanning three days in January 2015 started at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which regularly depicts the Prophet Muhammed, which some Muslims find blasphemous.
The brothers Said and Chérif Kouachi opened fire on their editorial meeting on January 7.
They killed 12 people, including France's most famed cartoonists and police officers.
A day later Amedy Coulibaly shot and killed a police officer and killed four Jewish men at a kosher supermarket.
The three gunmen were killed in separate police standoffs.
The slogan, Je suis Charlie, (I am Charlie) went viral and a wave of anti-terror marches took place.
The biggest rally was in Paris, with global leaders showing their support.
Six African heads of state were at the march.
But with Boko Haram and more frequent jihadist attacks in Africa, some questioned why their leaders did not show the same support back home.
Protesters are taking ropes and sledgehammers to symbols of oppression, from equestrian statues of Robert E. Lee to Christopher Columbus monuments, but elected and appointed officials are also whisking them away by decree, including a Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy.
In Washington, D.C., the guardians of Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill are considering the removal of numerous marble monuments placed there by former Confederate states to honor leaders of the insurrection.
Historian and former state Rep. Byron Rushing calls taking down Confederate monuments a “no-brainer” but says taking action on public statues like the emancipation memorial figures requires more caution.
While the fate of the Emancipation Statue is debated, one rarely cited fact about Confederate monuments exposes the fragile arguments of their defenders: Robert E. Lee himself opposed them.
According to Lee biographer Jonathan Horn, the former commander of the Army of Northern Virginia consistently turned down requests to support the erection of monuments to Confederate leaders and even supported getting rid of the Confederate flag after the Civil War ended.
“It is beyond ignorant to deny critical race theory, it is dangerous.” During October's Black...
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Ethiopia has announced it will engage legal pursuits against opposition leaders, including Jawar Mohammed et Bekele Gerba of the Oromo Federalist Congress members.
Terrorism and telecom fraud-related charges that relate to the deadly unrest that erupted in July.
Following the killing of singer Hachalu Hundessa, parts of the capital, Addis Ababa, and the Oromia region were plunged into chaos, as several thousands of Ethiopians took to the streets.
A prominent voice in anti-government protests, Hachalu's death caused turmoil that lasted for several days, during which acts of violence are said to have caused the death of close to 200 people.
Despite being Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo have never held the country’s top post until they helped bring Abiy Ahmed to power.
Now ethnic tensions and intercommunal violence are posing a growing challenge to his reforms.
Samuel Johnson was the son of Michael Johnson, a bookseller, and his wife, Sarah. From childhood he suffered from a number of physical afflictions. By his own account, he was born “almost dead,” and he early contracted scrofula (tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands). Because of a popular belief that the sovereign’s touch was able to cure scrofula (which, for that reason, was also called the king’s evil), he was taken to London at the age of 30 months and touched by the queen, whose gold “touch piece” he kept about him for the rest of his life. This was succeeded by various medical treatments that left him with disfiguring scars on his face and neck. He was nearly blind in his left eye and suffered from highly noticeable tics that may have been indications of Tourette syndrome. Johnson was also strong, vigorous, and, after a fashion, athletic. He liked to ride, walk, and swim, even in later life. He was tall and became huge. A few accounts bear witness to his physical strength—as well as his character—such as his hurling an insolent theatregoer together with his seat from the stage into the pit or his holding off would-be robbers until the arrival of the watch.
From his earliest years Johnson was recognized not only for his remarkable intelligence but also for his pride and indolence. In 1717 he entered grammar school in Lichfield. The master of the school, John Hunter, was a learned though brutal man who “never taught a boy in his life—he whipped and they learned.” This regime instilled such terror in the young boy that even years later the resemblance of the poet Anna Seward to her grandfather Hunter caused him to tremble. At school he made two lifelong friends: Edmund Hector, later a surgeon, and John Taylor, future prebendary of Westminster and justice of the peace for Ashbourne. In 1726 Johnson visited his cousin, the urbane Reverend Cornelius Ford in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, who may have provided a model for him, though it was Ford’s conviviality and scholarship rather than his dissipation (he is
Calls are intensifying for the removal of twin Emancipation memorials in Washington, D.C., and Boston that depict a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet — optics that jar and offend many in a nation confronting racial injustice through a fresh lens.
“I’ve been watching this man on his knees since I was a kid,” said Tory Bullock, a Black actor and activist leading the campaign to get the Boston memorial removed.
Black donors paid for the original in Washington; white politician and circus showman Moses Kimball financed the copy on a downtown square a block away from Boston Common.
But Blacks weren’t part of the design process, and the memorial’s central visual takeaway — a Black man with broken shackles kneeling before his white savior, with a whipping post and chains in the background — has had people cringing for years.
“We haven’t reached peak insanity, but setting an appointment to tear down an Abraham Lincoln statue known as the Emancipation Memorial in the name of racial equity has to be getting close,” conservative commentator Rich Lowry said on Twitter.
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Bill Cosby‘s appeal of his 2018 conviction for sexual assault has been accepted by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Most recently, Cosby’s lawyers were preparing to file a motion to have him released from SCI Phoenix in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, after at least one prison guard in his facility reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus.
According to USA Today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will be restricted to only reviewing two facets of Cosby’s two criminal trials, with both of them centered on witness testimony.
“The court said it will review Cosby’s case based first on whether the trial judge’s decision to allow other accusers to testify about alleged, uncharged ‘prior bad acts’ by Cosby was prejudicial as opposed to probative, a standard used to allow or disallow testimony,” USA Today reported.
“The other issue the court will review is whether the trial judge improperly allowed testimony about a civil deposition Cosby gave after he said he was promised by an earlier district attorney that he would not be prosecuted.
