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The Dragon capsule pulled up and docked late Monday night, following a 27-hour, completely automated flight from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
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The history of black civil rights is the story of Americas caste system. It is the story of how for centuries upper-class whites made African Americans into a slave class, easily identifiable because of their dark skin, and then reaped the benefits—sometimes using law, sometimes using religion, sometimes using violence to keep this system in place.
Activists have made incredible progress over the past 150 years, but institutional racism is still one of the strongest social forces in America today. If youd like to help do away with it, here are some organizations to look into:
By the time European explorers began to colonize the New World in the 15th and 16th centuries, African slavery had already been accepted as a fact of life. Until the 19th century, white European law and culture was built on the idea that when you see a dark-skinned person, her or his primary purpose is to be a subservient laborer. Mainstream American and European society has only slowly moved away from this dynamic, and as a result we all still live under a disproportionately race-based system of social stratification.
When a Moroccan slave named Estevanico arrived in Florida as part of a group of Spanish explorers in 1528, he became both the first known African American and the first American Muslim. Estevanico functioned as a guide and translator, and his unique skills gave him a social status that very few slaves ever had the opportunity to attain.
The conquistadors relied on both enslaved American Indians and imported African slaves to labor in their mines and on their plantations throughout the Americas. Unlike Estevanico, these slaves generally labored in anonymity, often under extremely harsh conditions.
In Great Britain, poor whites who could not afford to pay their debts were swept up into a system of indentured servitude that resembled slavery in most respects. Sometimes the servants could purchase their own freedom by working off their debts, sometimes not, but in either case they were the property of their masters until their
By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No celebs packing the front rows. No paparazzi chasing models down the streets. No stiletto-heeled crowds. No crowds at all, actually. Is there even a point to doing New York Fashion Week in 2020? Well, yes, say organizers: It's about economic survival. 'Ultimately fashion is a business, and Fashion Week is a platform for designers to do business,' says Steven Kolb, chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which organizes the semi-annual event. 'So this is about jobs … it's about people's livelihoods. It's about moving forward, […]
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Rep. Ted Yoho made the shockingly graphic comments.
Someone get eyes on Kanye West, because Drake just took shots at his sister-in-law, Kylie Jenner, on an unreleased track.
“Yeah, I’m a hater to society / Real shit, Kylie Jenner that’s a side piece,” Drake raps at one point.
The timeline is key here because Kylie Jenner and Drake were rumored to be spending time romantically in 2019 after her split with Travis Scott, who worked with the “Degrassi” alum over the years, most notably on the song “Sicko Mode.”
Drake, however, tried to get ahead of the incoming Kardashian media storm by posting an apology on Instagram Stories Thursday without mentioning any KarJenner by song that mark ran last night on night owl sound live set shouldn’t have been played.
See, while Kylie Jenner and Drake are on relatively good terms ― at least they were ― the “Tootsie Slide” rapper has clashed with Kylie’s brother-in-law, West, over the years.
Susan Williams, the Home Office minister for countering extremism, told the committee that extremism generally had not increased, but there had been a rise in specific types of hate crime.
She said: “I’ve been speaking to our hate crime lead, and there’s been a 21% uptick in hate incidents against the IC4 and IC5 community.”
UK fashion industry pleads for more aid to survive Covid-19 crisis
Incidents of hate crime against Chinese people in the UK have been well-documented in the run up to and during the lockdown period, including individuals being spat on and assaulted.
Lady Williams’s answer jars with information provided by another Home Office minister, Kit Malthouse, in answer to a parliamentary question from the Liberal Democrats about the proportion of hate crime incidents against people of Chinese ethnicity.
Source: Anti-Asian hate crimes up 21% in UK during coronavirus crisis
The HistoryMakers The 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC) ended last week as it had begun on a high note on Monday night with presentations from a spectrum of leaders including both Democrats and Republicans. Like 2020, it will go down in history as the first virtual convention. The relationship between the DNC and the Black […]
In short, there are real boundaries on Trump's power, and checks and balances to patrol those boundaries.
Trump did not like what he heard. The following day he flexed his Article II muscles and commuted the sentence of Roger Stone, his longtime ally who was investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller in connection with Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. Stone, convicted by a jury on seven felony counts including lying to Congress, obstruction of a congressional investigation, and witness tampering, was days away from reporting for a 40-month federal prison sentence.
The commutation ends his prison sentence before it starts and gives Stone the opportunity to continue his appeal as a free man. This appeal could potentially include whether the guilty verdict itself should be overturned because of alleged juror bias.
The commutation is an outrageous step -- but, astonishingly, outrage among senators was far from universal. We are a long way from the constitutional framers' sense of what presidential overreach looks like and how senators would respond.
Many of us who teach and write about the law were angered but not surprised by the commutation. Stone had just spoken to the media, telling news analyst Howard Fineman that he expected it to happen. \"[Trump] knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him. It would have eased my situation considerably. But I didn't.\"
Fineman later summed it all up: \"And so, in the fullness of time -- which is to say, about an hour later -- the White House made official what Stone already knew: Trump was commuting Stone's felony convictions for lying to Congress and tampering with witnesses.\"
What Stone said was an admission of an implicit quid-pro-quo bribery: an agreement to provide or receive something of value in exchange for an official act -- here, Stone's silence in exchange for Trump's reprieve. It might not have been the traditional political bribe in the sense of money being offered to get a politician to do something, but in this case we can assume that Stone's silence had value for Trump.
Bribery is a federal criminal offense defined in statute 18 USC 201 to criminalize the act of both the person who offers or gives the thing of value and the federal official who solicits or receives the thing of value in exchange for an official act. Moreover, it is a specific ground for impeachment set out in the Constitution.
Why include it as a particular basis for impeachment? Current circumstances show the wisdom of doing so. Even if federal prosecutors were to investigate both Trump and Stone for bribery, we know, given the Justice Department's view that a sitting president can't be charged, that they would not prosecute Trump while in office. (And with Attorney General Bill Barr at the helm it seems all but inconceivable they'd even investigate Trump, who claimed Monday that he was getting \"rave reviews\" for commuting Stone's sentence.) That's why, if we had a Senate prepared to do its institutional duty
An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent. A hotel manager says his unemployment has deepened his anxiety and kept him awake at night. A dental hygienist, pregnant with her second child, is struggling to afford diapers and formula. Around the country, across industries and occupations, millions of Americans thrown out […]
A video showing police violence against an unarmed Black man in Georgia was going viral after the cops beat the suspect bloody and unconscious for reportedly \"not having his ID.\"
As news of Rep. John Lewis’ death at age 80 spread early online Saturday, many high-profile admirers from politics and entertainment posted tribute messages and recollections from over the years, having met the 18-term Georgia congressman. While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called him 'one of the great heroes of American history,' TV talk show mogul …
THE GREEN COUNTY DEMOCRAT — Reportedly, through various written and verbal communications, the Green County Commission had informed Sheriff Jonathan Benison that his additional employees, supported by bingo funds, would be laid-off unless the Sheriff provided the necessary payroll payments at the beginning of each quarter of 2020-2021, as well as reimburse the county the back pay due for the same employees.
Lake Salda in Turkey will help guide the search for ancient life on Mars. Here's how.
NASA and SpaceXare sending an African-American astronaut on an extended trip for the first time into space. Victor J. Glover, who joined the astronaut corps in 2013 when he was still serving as a legislative fellow in the United States Senate, will now be the first Black crew member to spend an extended amount of...
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Fresh off an exhausting but inspiring presidential run, Sen. Cory Booker is focused on serving his constituents in New Jersey.... View Article
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Guyana has so far recorded 176 COVID-19 recoveries as the number of cases continues to rise.
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Popular KwaZulu-Natal butchery, Bluff Meat Supply, has temporarily shut its Victoria Street branch in Pietermaritzburg after a staff member contracted Covid-19.
In keeping with guidelines from the Department of Health, the store will be closed until further notice,\" said the meat supply group.
\"All other staff members that were working in proximity with the affected staff member have been temporarily asked to stay home and practice self-quarantine as per the Department of Health guidelines in curbing the spread.\"
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Robinson said staff members not in contact with the individual were being continuously screened for symptoms.
News24 reported this week that Covid-19 had spread to schools, with dozens of teachers, pupils and other support staff testing positive in the space of a week.
This was a \"strategic orientation\" so that, in the next two years, Mozambique can \"produce vegetable oil in a structured manner through the national production of these crops\".
Correia said that currently Mozambican exports of vegetable oil earn the country 150 million US dollars a year - but he believed the southern African market alone could bring in a billion dollars a year.
Correia said the IAM would expand its activities beyond cashew to other nut crops, particularly macadamia.
There is an expanding market for macadamia nuts, and Correia wanted to see macadamia become a significant cash crop in Mozambique.
Globally, the market for nuts is estimated at around 92 billion dollars a year, and so far Mozambique has concentrated almost solely on cashew nuts.
