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Nearly half of the 2,000 people surveyed support providing low-income families with school vouchers.
Abiy's government and the regional one run by the Tigray People's Liberation Front each consider the other illegitimate.
\t There was no immediate word from the three AU envoys, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe. AU spokeswoman Ebba Kalondo did not say whether they can meet with TPLF leaders, something Abiy's office has rejected.
\"``Not possible,'' senior Ethiopian official Redwan Hussein said in a message to the AP. ``\"Above all, TPLF leadership is still at large.'' He called reports that the TPLF had appointed an envoy to discuss an immediate cease-fire with the international community ``masquerading.''
\t Fighting reportedly remained well outside the Tigray capital of Mekele, a densely populated city of a half-million people who have been warned by the Ethiopian government that they will be shown ``no mercy'' if they don't distance themselves from the region's leaders.
\t Tigray has been almost entirely cut off from the outside world since Nov. 4, when Abiy announced a military offensive in response to a TPLF attack on a federal army base.
That makes it difficult to verify claims about the fighting, but humanitarians have said at least hundreds of people have been killed.
\t The fighting threatens to destabilize Ethiopia, which has been described as the linchpin of the strategic Horn of Africa.
\t With transport links cut, food and other supplies are running out in Tigray, home to 6 million people, and the United Nations has asked for immediate and unimpeded access for aid.
AP
By DIANE XAVIER The Dallas Examiner The recent general elections saw a record number of Texans voting, surpassing the votes in the 2016 race. Over 10 million Texans casted their vote in the [...]
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By Cheryl Smith Publisher Colleen Payne Nabors had a vision and little did she know that when she founded MCI Diagnostic Center, the world would be facing a pandemic that …
Madison High School teacher Paula Ceaser has been awarded the 2020 K-12 Health Education Teacher of the Year by the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (TAHPERD). The award is in recognition of excellence, leadership, and outstanding representation of the teaching profession. “We are incredibly proud of Ms. Ceaser’s accomplishment and dedication to […]
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… 2016 vote share among African Americans (as well as … vote, Trump lost African American voters by margins ranging … a substantial minority of African Americans embraced Trump-style concerns … shows overwhelming consensus among African Americans that the community …
A Dallas family says police aren’t working hard enough to find the killers of their loved one. Deonte Hicks of... View Article
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(CBM) - Californians can rest easy. With a little over two months to go until the state’s open enrollment period for 2021 ends on Jan. 31, 2021, expect no new restrictions to your health care coverage options. It is not likely that the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, […]
RapperTory Lanezhas pleaded not guilty to charges related to the July shooting incident involving rapper Megan Thee Stallion, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office […]
Latonya Young is a student at Georiga State University's Perimeter who received a tremendous gift from a passenger while she was working as an Uber driver—paying off her entire student debt.
HISD drama For the past two-plus years, Dr. Grenita Lathan has worked tirelessly for the children of the Houston Independent School District. She's risen above the drama and stayed focused on the long-term goal of educating the children of HISD. Lathan is credited with pulling dozens of academically challenged schools into compliance and earning a […]
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In response to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to uphold Gov. Greg Abbott’s mandate to block Medicaid patients from accessing health care at Planned Parenthood clinics, Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis issued the following statement: “This decision is a heartless attack on the countless Texas women who depend on Planned Parenthood for […]
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Walmart is investing $5 million to helo increase the number of Black graduates in the fields of engineering, business, and other professional disciplines.
It is, perhaps, one of the great ironies of history that a resourceful Jewish boy fleeing for his life in Poland was carried to freedom by a Black man in the storied 761st tank unit, fighting in a racially segregated army for a country that accorded the soldier little freedom at home, writes Steven Holmes.
… -class people in general, most African Americans did worse economically under Barack … influence for portions of the African American upper class on his watch …
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Prairie View A&M University has announced a $40,000 donation from Sacramento’s Cameron Champ Foundation and Chevron Corporation to establish two scholarship funds for student-athletes on its Men’s and Women’s Golf Teams. The donation to the Historic Black College and University follows the historic conclusion of the pandemic-delayed 2020 Masters Tournament, where […]
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Huge holes in state budgets due to the coronavirus pandemic and the demonstrated eagerness of fans to bet on sports are likely to spur a further expansion of sports betting and online casino gambling, experts said Tuesday. Speaking at the Betting On Sports America online conference, gambling executives, analysts and lawmakers agreed that the lure of new tax revenue could prove irresistible to cash-strapped state governments facing large deficits due to the pandemic. And the results of last month's elections, in which voters in numerous states approved allowing or expanding […]
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As we know it, the day following Thanksgiving is Black Friday, and for years, earmarked as the official kickoff for Christmas shopping. While some Americans may be shopping for Christmas gifts, a new tradition has sparked called 'The Black Friday Scholarship Bootcamp,' a one-day program for college-bound students and their parents in Michigan and around … Continued
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At the Martyrs' School near Tripoli, teachers and parents are using the limited means at hand to repair buildings devastated by a year-long battle for the Libyan capital.
Some of the walls have been repainted, furniture has been installed and ageing computer screens dusted off. But the roofs and other walls, pockmarked by gunfire and mortar blasts, remain grim reminders of the recent fighting.
\"We didn't want to sit and wait for help,\" said Najah al-Kabir, a teaching coordinator in a patterned jallaba gown and a hijab.
She is taking part in a refurbishment campaign launched by staff and joined by enthusiastic parents of students from the surrounding Ain Zara district.
\"We're one family,\" Kabir said, standing in the playground of the primary school, damaged by weeks of artillery fire.
\"This school was our second home.\"
When eastern Libyan military chief Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive in April 2019 to seize the capital from the UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), Ain Zara found itself on the front line.
The fighting degenerated into a long battle of attrition on the outskirts of Tripoli and lasted until June this year, when pro-GNA forces ended the stalemate by pushing Haftar's forces back eastwards.
By the time the fighting ended, the school had been reduced to \"ruins\", Kabir said.
\"It needed to be rebuilt quickly,\" she added.
'A terrible state'
The UN children's agency UNICEF warned earlier this year that \"attacks against schools and the threat of violence have led to (school) closures and left almost 200,000 children out of the classroom\".
The Martyrs' School is one of around 100 schools fully or partly destroyed during the offensive by Haftar, backed by Russia and the United Arab Emirates.
Pro-GNA armed groups, whose counter-offensive was spurred by Turkey, used some schools to stock arms or as observation posts.
By the end of the fighting, the Martyrs' School was \"in a terrible state\", said headteacher Saleh al-Badri.
The establishment caters for 1,500 students in an area three kilometres from the next school, making it \"important to reopen it as soon as possible,\" he said.
Mahmoud Abdelkhalek, who lives nearby and sends his three sons to the school, was keen to get involved.
\"It seemed important that everyone get involved to fix it,\" he said. \"A collective effort has brought it back to life.\"
WASHINGTON - Though he died in 2013, the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was somehow involved in a scheme to rig the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden, according to a lawyer working for [...]
Ten Black Americans were among the 32 men and women selected as U.S. Rhodes Scholars and will conduct post-graduate studies at Oxford University.
By DAVID CRARY and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press The surging coronavirus is taking an increasingly dire toll across the U.S. just as a vaccine appears at hand, with the country now averaging over 1,300 COVID-19 deaths per day — the highest since the calamitous spring in and around New York City. The overall death toll has reached about 253,000, by far the highest in the world. Total confirmed infections have eclipsed more than 11.7 million, after the biggest one-day gain on record Thursday — almost 188,000. And the number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 hit another all-time […]
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On Monday, Nov. 16, family members of Atatiana Jefferson, who was fatally shot by a Texas police officer in 2019, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against
… a group of African American cancer survivors in Detroit … significantly lower among African Americans compared with other groups … population-based study of African American survivors of breast, colorectal … in a population of African American cancer survivors, a …
Students from 20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will compete in the inaugural HBCU Esports Homecoming Classic.
Californians can rest easy. With a little over two months to go until the state’s open enrollment period for 2021 ends on Jan. 31, 2021, expect no new restrictions to your health care coverage options. It is not likely that the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, will be successful. It occurred Nov. 10, when the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments against the national health care law passed under the Obama administration in the case California v. Texas, No. 19-840.
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas attorney general’s office has fired the last remaining whistleblower who alleged Ken Paxton broke the law in doing favors for a political donor — just days after aides had sued the agency alleging they suffered retaliation for making […]
Madagascar has affirmed its decision not to participate in the Covax global initiative for the access to Covid-19 vaccine once they have been approved and licensed.
The government spokesperson confirmed the island will resort to its traditions concoction that its own scientist discovered earlier this year to stem out the virus.
He further said that they were waiting to see the effectiveness of the vaccine first in the countries that will first use it.
The tonic, based on the plant Artemisia annua which has anti-malarial properties, was not proven by the World Health Organization but had put it on sale to several African countries.
Vaccines in Madagascar have never been popular among the general population. The island in 2018 was among the last four countries in the world registering polio cases from its stance on vaccines.
Jackie Ward has always known she wanted a career working in the health industry. After all, she grew up watching her mother serve patients as a nurse at Texas Children’s Hospital. So it’s no surprise that she would follow in her mother’s footsteps. And now, 27 years later, her dedication and commitment is leading her […]
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