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The build up to Christmas is an exciting time – especially with children – but we all know that shopping …
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
Krystal Lee, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker for St Ann North West, has given low performance ratings for Member of Parliament Dayton Campbell, questioning his achievements during his nine-year tenure.
Campbell told The Gleaner last week that one of his biggest achievements as member of parliament was his programme of skills training, which he claimed has certified 3,614 people.
“When it comes on to a lot of skills training, where you can actually go into the communities and have these centres using whether school or churches ... when I actually go around, there are actually none.
She pointed to the Salem community in the constituency as one area where, she claimed, young people had not been the recipIents of training initiatives.
Lee said her focus was on rural infrastructural development, including roads and water systems, job creation, education, and skills training.
(Photo by Antonio Harvey)
Senator Steven Bradford (D- Los Angeles) vice chair of the Legislative Black Caucus.
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media
Shortly after members of the California legislature took a knee for eight minutes and 46 seconds at the California Capitol to protest racism and the death of George Floyd, Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) took the opportunity to call out some of her Latino colleagues.
“I have to be honest, I’m disappointed with our Latino caucus,” Gonzalez said at the event that Assemblymember Syndey Kamlager (D-Los Angeles), a member the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC), organized.
Gonzalez said although some of the California Legislative Latino Caucus (CLLC) members have co-authored pieces of legislation with Black Caucus members, they have not been supportive enough of policy that can make a measurable difference in the lives of Black Californians.
The protest-slash-tribute took place in front of the California state Capitol’s West steps to honor the late George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer who pinned the unarmed Black man down during an arrest.
BREAK THE Cycle, a national organisation aimed at promoting Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME)...
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CAREERS IN Racing (CiR), the dedicated careers marketing arm of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA),...
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Dallas Public Library’s SMART Summer with Mayor Johnson will kick off May 30, with incentives and prizes to encourage reading and at-home virtual learning experiences.
“We have all endured a steady stream of disappointing cancellations and closures in recent months, so I am excited that we are able to move forward with SMART Summer,” said Mayor Johnson.
SMART Summer is sponsored by Friends of the Dallas Public Library, the nonprofit organization that funds programming and marshals public support for the library system.
Formerly known as the Mayor’s Summer Reading Challenge, SMART Summer emphasizes the learning beyond reading that happens at the library: Science, Math, Art, Reading and Technology.
“Dallas families have faced hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the closures of schools have made it even more critical that we provide learning opportunities for our children over the summer,” said Nikki Johnson.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z’s Roc Nation entertainment company is partnering with Brooklyn’s Long Island University to launch the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment. The new school will begin enrolling students for the fall 2021 semester, and 25% of the incoming freshmen class will receive Roc Nation Hope Scholarships. Hope Scholars will […]
“I went home, showered and the body aches became severe and my temperature shot up from 100 degrees to 102 degrees as well as a terrible headache,” says Stephens. “I also began sweating as if someone poured water on me.”
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Winnie Mutuku has managed to sustain a feeding program for street children and families in Kitale, a town in western Kenya about 280 miles from the capital, Nairobi.
Mutuku, who manages Upendo Street Children -- a project run by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul -- has reunited many children with their families to avoid their being arrested by police during curfew hours.
Currently, I'm working on developing a new project for street children in the western part of Kenya [Kitale] where the Daughters of Charity have been engaged in services for 11 years.
Tell us about your ministry
I came to Kitale in July last year to do a feasibility study in preparation to respond to the issues of street children in Kitale town.
Is there something about the charism of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul that has made you focus on the needs of the street children?
Shape the Culture, a digital platform that focuses on highlighting the good work young individuals are doing to impact and move the country forward, will host a “Be the Change Unity Rally” on Sunday, June 21 at Kelly Ingram Park located in downtown Birmingham.
This peaceful rally will bring together young people from across the Birmingham area to use their collective voices to take a stand against racism, injustice, and inequity.
The rally is being led by young activists from the Birmingham area and will begin at 3 p.m.
“With everything going on now — racial injustice, brutal treatment of African Americans by law enforcement, the way that COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting people of color — no one is really concentrating on how these issues are affecting young people,” said Jordyn Hudson, a rising senior at Indian Springs School and founder of Shape the Culture.
“Young people played a pivotal role in the historic Civil Rights Movement that took place on the downtown streets of Birmingham.
Shape the Culture was founded to showcase the good work young people are doing in their communities across America.
In fact, as the organization ACH Clear Pathways celebrated its groundbreaking of a new addition to the Kaufmann Center, the building in the Hill District now owned by ACH Clear Pathways, Dr. Butler joked about his moment to speak to the crowd, sandwiched in between well-known local orators like state Rep. Jake Wheatley and City Councilman R. Daniel Lavelle.
The organization has operated out of spaces such as the Blakey Center and Ammon Recreation Center, but last summer, ACH Clear Pathways moved its offerings to the Kaufmann Center, next to the Hill House on Centre Avenue.
(Photo by Courier photographer J.L. Martello)
Fast forward to June 12, after Allegheny County had moved into the “Green Phase” during the coronavirus pandemic, and more than 150 people came out to celebrate (with masks, of course) not only the fact that ACH Clear Pathways was able to purchase the Kaufmann Center, but that 2,500 square feet of space would be added to the center for a digital media studio and an art studio.
Other political dignitaries that attended and spoke at the event included Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, who said that he loved “everything about this project,” particularly how, in the face of the Hill House Association dissolving in 2019 and the Kaufmann Center’s future in limbo at the time, “we found a way from within to be able to save it,” Peduto said.
But even before Pittsburgh’s mayor knew Battle, or before ACH Clear Pathways was ever formed, Dr. Butler was there, front-and-center with Amon, the boy whose life made it possible for all that’s been achieved in his namesake by his mother, Tyian Battle.
President Museveni has reiterated the need for Ugandans to police themselves in a bid to avoid the spread of coronavirus.
Obulwade tebulina magulu ) the virus does not move on its own) , but is transported (by people),\" Mr Museveni added on Thursday while addressing MPs during budget reading.
Mr Museveni further noted that had it not been the emergencies government has faced in the last six months, especially because of Covid-19, the rate of economic growth would have been at least six percent per annum.
On security which was allocated about Shs4.4 trillion of the total national Budget of Shs45 trillion for the financial year 2020/2021, Mr Museveni said Uganda is stable.
About the bourgeoning corruption in the country, Mr Museveni reiterated that he has started cleaning government.
In late July 1969, the group staged their first action in an effort to force the City of New York to increase garbage pick-up in East Harlem.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, this Sunday, members of the Young Lords are planning to come together to mark the fortieth anniversary of the group’s founding.
One, the First Spanish Methodist Church is empty six days a week.
We got into negotiations with the city, of saying, “Why park it there?
It was taking ten or fifteen years.
Boston City Councilors Julia Mejia and Andrea Campbell have called for a hearing to address non-lethal force restraint tactics by the city’s police.
The hearing order, introduced during the June 10 council meeting, recognizes that while procedures such as physical restraints to the neck and throat are not taught by the Boston Police Department, “its rules and procedures do not explicitly prohibit such measures.”
Councilors Michelle Wu and Mejia offered a resolution urging the MBTA to protect peaceful assembly with reliable public transit services.
The board votes on several MBTA-related issues, including the recent decision to disallow public transit vehicles to transport police officers to protests.
Mejia also called for a hearing regarding certain university police units, who she said joined the BPD at the city’s recent protests.
By Hayley Crandall Vote. The word and its importance have been the talk of the town since candidates started being announced, but now it’s crunch time. “If Black folks aren’t tired of hearing about voting, then that means you haven’t done the work,” Tiffany Henry, president of Milwaukee Urban League Young Professionals, said. Biden for […]
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Recently, JPMorgan announced that Chief Executive Officer of Chase Consumer Banking, Thasunda Duckett, will be the first African-American named to the firm’s Operating Committee in the biggest expansion of its […]
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On June 7, 1966, New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy became one of the first major American politicians to take a public stand against South African Apartheid when he delivered an address to the National Union of South African Students in New York City. His address appears below.
I CAME HERE BECAUSE of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once imported slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. I refer, of course, to the United States of America.
This is a Day of Affirmation, a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom.
At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any Western society.
The first element of this individual liberty is the freedom of speech: the right to express and communicate ideas, to set oneself apart from the dumb beasts of field and fore t; to recall governments to their duties and obligations; above all, the right to affirm ones membership and allegiance to the body politic-to society-to the men with whom we share our land, our heritage, and our childrens future.
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape mens lives. Everything that makes mans life worthwhile--family, work, education, a place to rear ones children and a place to rest ones head-all this depends on decisions of government; all can be swept
Abuja, Kano, Gombe, Makurdi, Benin, Jos, Lagos — Medical experts have warned that Nigeria could experience dire consequences in the rate of COVID-19 cases and deaths if people continued to violate protective measures against the disease.
Dr. Omo Izedomwen, a public health expert said the country was already experiencing community transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic and that the only way to break it currently was to adhere to safety measures and restrictions instituted by the government .
Ada Ekoja, an Otukpo resident told our correspondent that people behaved that way because there was no disease called COVID-19, alleging that the 'noise' about the virus was orchestrated by the federal government to draw international sympathies to make money.
Despite the fact that Kano is one of the top five states with the highest COVID-19 cases, the attitude of the people towards the prevention protocols is poor; majority of the people go about their businesses without recourse to preventive guidelines.
A resident, Christian Osadolor, said he does not comply with COVID-19 measures because government is just using it to create fear in people's minds
Compliance with COVID-19 measures is still poor in Lagos despite the fact that it has the highest number of cases.
“As the mayor of Georgia’s largest city, I expressed opposition to Gov. Brian Kemp’s recent order allowing certain businesses—dine-in restaurants, gyms, hair and nail salons, barbershops, tattoo parlors and bowling alleys—to reopen before health experts say doing so is safe.
However, Lightfoot is grappling with many young people being non-compliant with the shelter-in-place orders her city is aggressively enforcing in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 in its neighborhoods; black neighborhoods, in particular.
As the nation’s third largest city’s first black woman and first openly gay mayor, she has had to struggle with the virus’ disproportionate impact on the black community.
Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, a professor of Urban and Regional Planning and the director of the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Buffalo, said we should not give these mayors a pass or holding them partly responsible for the catastrophic impact the pandemic has had on the black communities in their cities.
Given these African American mayors’ knowledge of their black communities and its social demographics they should have been better prepared for the deadly pandemic regardless of what the federal or state leaders did, Taylor said.
“As a caucus, we’ve been woefully silent on some of the issues that the Black caucus has put out there on police reform,” continued Gonzalez, who is chair of the Latino caucus.
The protest-slash-tribute took place in front of the California State Capitol’s West steps to honor the late George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer who pinned the unarmed Black man down during an arrest.
Young people in Washington DC are leading the way and making their voices heard. Many of them leading this movement there are Black fraternity and sorority members. On June 3rd, Concerned Citizens, a group formed by five DC organizers, attracted thousands marching through Capitol Hill. The next day, on June 4th, they had a crowd of []
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In a news release, the campaign noted that Biden “knows we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based disparities.”
They said the Biden Plan for Black America would:
• Advance the economic mobility of African Americans and close the racial wealth and income gaps.
“Today, we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based disparities,” Biden stated.
Biden said he plans to hold financial institutions accountable for discriminatory practices in the housing market, and he will restore the federal government’s power to enforce settlements against discriminatory lenders.
The Houston Parks and Recreation Department has made the difficult decision to close all 19 Community Centers that have been serving as locations for the 2020 Summer Enrichment Program until further notice due to the rapidly changing circumstances and the accompanying situations surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This was a difficult decision to make as we understand the impact this will have on the families and children who have signed up for the Summer Enrichment Program,” said Steve Wright, Director Houston Parks and Recreation Department.
“But in light of the changing circumstances regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, and with regard to the safety of the families we serve as well as our staff, we felt this was the most responsible decision to make.
The closures will not affect the operation of the department’s meal program for youth offered at the Community Centers.
“We will continue to offer the Curbside Meal Program for youth through our Community Center sites,” Wright continued.
New institute to set standards for career guidance professionals
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By JAMES KARIUKI
CGI founder and chairperson Margaret Waithaka.
The Career Guidance Institute (CGI) is expected to address skills mismatch in the local labour market that is teeming with unemployed graduates.
CGI founder and chairperson Margaret Waithaka said a homegrown curriculum would help Kenya produce professionals who understand the local business environment as they guide youth in choosing careers.
Mental health expert Florence Ambayo, a CGI board member, said homegrown curriculum equip career guidance practitioners with the relevant skills required to prepare young people for the demanding labour market.
Individuals and organisations involved in career guidance in Kenya as well as practitioners who are yet to acquire formal training in the field are eligible for the CGI programme.
A beautiful new short film, narrated by rugby superstar, Tendai ‘The Beast’ Mtawarira, is released as hardships continue across the continent in the face of Covid-19, writes James Elder.
Every year since 1991, the Day of the African Child has been commemorated in memory of the young activists who were killed during the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa.
On this day, Africa Strong seeks to commend their courage and reflect on the challenges that young people still face today.
Consider these few facts from across Eastern and Southern Africa:
Ethiopia – a country of 100 million people - completed a door-to-door survey of its capital in just three weeks.
- James Elder is UNICEF’s head of communication for Eastern and Southern Africa.
