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Jamaica on Saturday recorded two COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 615. The deceased are an 84-year-old man from Westmoreland and an 80-year-old woman from St James. One more case was recorded as a coincidental death, increasing the...
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.
AFP
During the late afternoon of the 25th of July 1946 four African-Americans were shot dead by a lynch mob at Moores Ford, Walton county, Georgia, about eight miles from the town of Monroe. The grotesquely sprawled bodies of the victims--the Coroner said at least sixty bullets were pumped into them--were found in a clump of bushes beside a little used side road...The uper parts of the bodies were scarcely recognizable from the mass of bullet holes. The victims were Roger Malcom, aged 24, Dorothy Malcom, aged 20, George Dorsey, a World War II hero, aged 28, and Mae Murray Dorsey, aged 23. Four factors contributed greatly to the Moores Ford lynching. The first and most important of these was a wide-spread, accepted ideology that members of the white race were better than African-Americans; indeed, that African-Americans were subhuman. The second factor was the threat of competition. In 1846, for the first time, African-Americans could vote in the formerly all-white, Georgia Democratic primary. The third factor was the white racist Eugene Talmadge. His rabid 1946 campaign for governor undoubtedly set the stage for the lynching at Moores Ford. The fourth factor was the triggering event; namely, Roger Malcoms fight with a white man named Barney Hester. And, of course, there were other pernicious forces at work in this case, forces of a more personal nature. Dorothy Malcoms unborn child was also lynched at Moores Ford.
Jamaica on Wednesday recorded two more COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 217.\tThe deceased are a 64-year-old male from St Mary and a 70-year-old male from St Catherine.\tTwo more cases were recorded as coincidental deaths, moving that figure to...
[Nation] Kenya now has 69,273 declared cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus disease, the Health ministry said Saturday, reporting 1,080 new infections after analysing 8,322 samples in the last 24 hours.
(CALMATTERS) - In the face of a “surge on top of a surge,” Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today the strictest measure in months for a regional stay-at-home order tied to the number of intensive care beds as hospitals near their capacity in the face of a statewide coronavirus surge. The governor’s order calls for tougher […]
An alleged top-ranking member of the Spanish Town, St Catherine-based Clansman Gang was fatally shot and 10 other individuals shot and injured during a vicious gun attack on patrons at an illegal party in Old Braeton, also in St Catherine, Friday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad has recorded an additional COVID-19 related death bringing the toll to 135.
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John Willis Menard, (1838-1893) was the first African American elected to Congress when on November 3, 1868 he received the majority of votes to fill the unexpired term of Louisiana Second District Congressman James Mann. On the strength of the vote Menard went to Washington to be seated. However his opponent Caleb Hunt challenged the election. The Committee on Elections of the U.S. House of Representatives refused to seat either candidate. Menard’s speech to the House on February 23, 1869, which appears below, was part of his unsuccessful effort to be seated.
Mr. Speaker: I appear here more to acknowledge this high privilege than to make an argument before this House. It was certainly not my intention at first to take any part in this case at all; but as I have been sent here by the votes of nearly nine thousand electors, I would feel myself recreant to the duty imposed upon me if I did not defend their rights on this floor. I wish it to be well understood, before I go further that in the disposition of this case I do not expect, nor do I ask, that there shall be any favor shown me on account of my race, or the former condition of that race. I wish the case to be decided on its own merits and nothing else. As I said before the Committee of Election, Mr. Hunt, who contests my seat, is not properly a contestant before this House, for the reason that he has not complied with the law of Congress in serving notice upon me of his intention to contest my seat. The returns of the Board of Canvassers of the State of Louisiana were published officially on the twenty-fifth of November, and the gentleman had sufficient time to comply with the law of Congress if he had chosen to do so. When Congress convened on the seventh of December, he presented to the Speaker of this House a protest against my taking my seat. I did not know the nature of that protest until about the middle of January, when the case was called up before the committee.
Upon this point of notice I desire to call the attention of the House to this fact:
Seventy- nine new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded and the majority were reported in Region Four.
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Nearly 1.2 million people passed through U.S. airports Sunday, the largest number since the pandemic gripped the country in March, despite pleas from health experts for Americans to stay home over Thanksgiving. The Transportation Security Administration screened at least 1 million people on four of the last 10 days through Sunday. That's still half the crowd recorded last year at airports, when more than 2 million people were counted per day. With new reported cases of coronavirus spiking across the country, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had issued a warning against […]
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Dred Scott was a slave who lived during the early 19th century and was the first slave who sued his master for freedom in a court of law. He was born into slavery in Virginia and was the property of the Peter Blow family. His birth name was Sam, but he changed it to Dred after his dead brother. The Blow family were farmers in Alabama who later moved to St. Louis, Missouri. Before moving, they sold their slaves to an army doctor named John Emerson. In 1836, Scott fell in love with a slave girl named Harriett Robinson, who belonged to another army doctor named Major Lawrence Taliaferro. Taliaferro sold Harriett to Emerson so that Scott and Harriett could be married.
Two years later, Dr. Emerson married a lady named Eliza Irene Sanford, and the family, along with their slaves, moved to Missouri shortly after. Emerson then left the army and died in 1843. Upon his master’s death, Scott tried to purchase his freedom from Emerson’s widow but she refused. Dred Scott decided to take the matter to the courts and in 1846, he filed a law suit in St Louis Circuit Court. The trial was held in 1847, and Scott lost. A retrial was called for, and this time, a jury in Missouri ruled that since Scott and Harriett had lived with Emerson in the free states of Illinois and Wisconsin (that is, slavery was illegal there), they should be granted their freedom since they were being illegally held as slaves there to begin with. Scott was successful in winning his freedom in this historic ruling in 1850.
Emerson’s widow appealed this decision to the Missouri Supreme Court and the subsequent ruling was made in her favor. The court ruled that the idea of “once free, always free” was no longer applicable, a rule that had been upheld for 28 years previously. Only one judge supported this decision, but the majority ruling was against them, and Scott and his wife were returned to Mrs. Emerson. After Dr. Emerson’s death, the estate legally came under Mrs. Emerson’s brother, John F. A. Sanford, who was a citizen of New York. Scott and his wife
Thanksgiving holiday parties held in “different locations” yielded multiple violations of the latest COVID-19 health directive, Shelby County Health Department Officials said Monday. Health Department Medical Director Dr. Bruce Randolph did not specify those locations, other than the In Love Memphis Club at 7144 Winchester Rd., which has drawn particular attention after a video circulated […]
Brian Melley and Amy Taxin | Associated Press As a hospice nurse, Antonio Espinoza worked to ease people's passage into death. Just 36 years old, it seemed unlikely he soon would be on that journey. But when the unpredictable coronavirus hit Espinoza, he spiraled from fever to chills to labored breathing that sent him to […]
The post As California Virus Cases Fall, More People Than Ever Dying appeared first on Black Voice News.
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Clinical coordinator at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James Dr Delroy Fray says 16 people abandoned by relatives are taking up space on the ward designated for the overflow of COVID-19 patients at the facility.
The country recorded 100,762 new cases and and 453 new deaths as of 9:30
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WESTERN BUREAU: Face-to-face classes were completed successfully at Somerton All-Age and Infant in St James on Tuesday as a 17-school pilot got under way with COVID-19 social-distancing and sanitising protocols. Somerton was one of three schools...
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) was the designation given to the approximately 175 regiments of non-white soldiers that served during the Civil War. The troops were primarily African American, but Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders were all included within the ranks, as well. By the end of the war, nearly a tenth of the entire Union Army consisted of member of the USCT, which peaked at 178,000 individuals. These regiments were the precursors for the now famous Buffalo Soldiers who served throughout the West following the conclusion of the war.
Before January 1, 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, President Abraham Lincoln was cautious about the recruitment of African Americans into the Union Army, due to politics and prejudice throughout the North, especially among Democrats loyal to the Union who resided in Border States that allowed slavery. Once January 1 came, however, and the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, full scale recruitment of black troops began.
In May 1863, the United States War Department created the Bureau of Colored Troops, and the USCT was officially established. The USCT consisted of 135 regiments of infantry soldiers, six regiments of cavalry, one regiment of light artillery, and 13 regiments of heavy artillery. An addition nineteen thousand African Americans served in the United States Navy. Furthermore, thousands of black women, who were not allowed to formally enlist, worked for the military as cooks, spies, nurses, and scouts; the most famous of these women was Harriet Tubman.
The United States Colored Troops fought in every major military campaign and battle the Union Army was involved in during the last two years of the Civil War. These included three of the most costly battles of the entire war, the Battle of Nashville, the Battle of Chickamauga, both in Tennessee, and the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse in Virginia. Throughout the war, the USCT suffered a total of 68,178 casualties while contributing to the Union
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. hit a record number of coronavirus hospitalizations Tuesday and surpassed 1 million new confirmed cases in just the first 10 days of November amid a nationwide surge of infections that shows no signs of slowing. The new wave appears bigger and more widespread than the surges that happened in the spring and summer — and threatens to be worse. But experts say there are also reasons to think the nation is better able to deal with the virus this time around. 'We're definitely in a better place' when […]
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Gas prices will go up by $0.25 effective Thursday.\tThe state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 will sell for $105.90 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will sell for $108.73.\tAutomotive diesel oil will move up by $0.25 per...
In 1793, Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Law to implement the provisions in the Constitution. It stated that to reclaim an escaped slave a master needed only to go before a magistrate and provide oral or written proof of ownership. The magistrate would then issue an order for the arrest of the slave. The slave was not given a trial in court or allowed to present evidence on their own behalf, including proof of having previously earned their freedom.
Many Northern states passed Personal Liberty laws that granted a fugitive slave rights, such as trial by jury. Other states, such as Pennsylvania, passed strong kidnapping laws which functioned to punish slave catchers. Edward Prigg was convicted of kidnapping in Pennsylvania after capturing a slave family. Prigg took his case to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court issued a double edged decision: it declared Pennsylvanias law unconstitutional but also ruled that the states did not have to use their facilities to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law. This led to some states passing new personal liberty laws prohibiting the use of state facilities for the enforcement of the fugitive law.
After the first Fugitive Slave Law was passed, lawyer Salmon P. Chase was just starting on his anti slavery career. He became an avid supporter of abolitionist causes when he met the editor of an abolitionist newspaper, James Birney, in 1836. The year after Chase and Birney had met, Birneys housekeeper Matilda, a part African female, was captured as a runaway slave. Birney had been unaware she was a fugitive. Despite Chases defense, which denounced the Fugitive Slave Law as unconstitutional, the authorities took Matilda back to New Orleans, where she was sold at auction. Chase moved on to defend Birney, who was charged with harboring a fugitive slave. Chase took the case to the Supreme Court, where the charges were dismissed because Birney did not know Matilda was a slave when he hired her. Chase continued to work defending fugitive slaves and those who aided them.
On March 26, 1938, Berry Lawson, a twenty-seven-year-old African American waiter staying at the Mt. Fuji Hotel located on Yesler Way in downtown Seattle, Washington, was reportedly asleep in a chair in the hotel lobby. He was spotted by three Seattle Police Department officers, who approached Lawson to arrest him for loitering. An altercation ensued, and ninety minutes later, Lawson was pronounced dead at City Emergency Hospital with a fractured skull. According to the Seattle Times, the three officers, Patrolmen F.H. Paschal, W.F. Stevenson, and P.L. Whalen, “declared Lawson apparently was under the influence of a stimulant and broke away from them and plunged headlong down a flight of stairs.”
Almost immediately, local African American leaders began asking questions. Although an autopsy performed by King County Coroner Otto Mittlestadt found “several internal head injuries, a broken nose, and several bruises” and no evidence that Lawson was intoxicated, the coroner cleared the three officers of any wrongdoing. Days later, a delegation led by Rev. Fred Hughes, pastor at First AME Church; Rev. T.M. Davis, pastor at Mt. Zion Baptist Church; and newspaper publisher John O. Lewis met with Police Chief William Sears. In addition, Seattle Urban League executive secretary Joseph Sylvester Jackson organized a committee of community representatives to hold “protest meetings” with Mayor-elect Arthur Langlie. Soon after, the city announced it would conduct an official investigation into Lawson’s death.
On April 8, Paschal, Stevenson, and Whalen were charged with second-degree murder in the death of Berry Lawson. They surrendered at the prosecuting attorney’s office and were held in lieu of $5,000 bail. Chief Sears suspended all three without pay and then fired them one month later. Meanwhile, Paschal, Stevenson, and Whalen made claims in the newspaper, suggesting that the real reason behind their prosecution was connected to something else. Stevenson stated, “I know the white slave interests are out to get us for our
Dred Scott, a slave, filed suit in the St. Louis Circuit Court claiming that his temporary residence in a free territory should have made him a free man. Scott would lose the case.
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A teenager was arrested by the police in St Catherine following the seizure of an illegal gun along with ammunition.\tThe police say the arrest came as investigators in St Ann probe a robbery committed in Breadnut Hill, Ocho Rios in the parish on...
George Foreman, two-time heavyweight boxing champion, was born in Marshall, TX. In a 1973 Kingston, Jamaica bout, he defeated Joe Frazier to receive the haveyweight championship. Foreman kept the title for 22 months until losing it to Muhammad Ali.
Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie comes to Kingston Jamaica.
