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The first attempt to make black women in South Africa carry passes was in 1913 when the Orange Free State introduced a new requirement that women, in addition to existing regulations for black men, must carry reference documents. The resulting protest, by a multi-racial group of women, many of whom
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Help needed for craft traders, others in the sector – Phillips
People’s National Party (PNP) President and Leader of the Opposition Dr Peter Phillips says the plight of craft vendors across the island must be urgently addressed as the economic fallout from the coronavirus has left them and their families...
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Daniels, Preston A. (1945- )
Preston Daniels, the first African American elected Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa, was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1945.  Shortly afterwards his parents moved to Des Moines and he grew up in the Chesterfield section of southeast Des Moines, a working-class area also known as the “southeast
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An Angolan trade union on Tuesday accused the police of shooting dead one of their senior officials and his neighbour in front of his home in the
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Call for financial safety net for vulnerable workers
WITH thousands left reeling from sudden layoffs and redundancies in Jamaica and across the Caribbean as businesses try to weather the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a call is being made for an unemployment insurance scheme, a living wage policy and legislation to protect contract
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Diversity And Inclusion In The Workplace Starts With The Job Ad - Milwaukee Community Journal
The worldwide protests against racism and police brutality have forced many people to think about sweeping, positive changes in society that will result in racial equality. In the workplace, it’s well-documented that diversity and inclusion benefit both individuals and businesses, and that these
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Atlanta’s unemployment rate is dropping | Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta’s Unemployment Rate Drops in May Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said Thursday that Atlanta’s unemployment rate decreased in May. Due to the effects of COVID-19, all MSA’s continue to see stinted yearly growth, yet monthly gains in nearly all major sectors are beginning to
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Moody's downgrades The Bahamas
In a statement, Moody's said the key drivers behind the rating action were the large shock caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis will weigh significantly on economic and fiscal strength over the medium term as well as the funding conditions will become more constrained for the Government
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Masks give women’s group lifeline as tourists dwindle
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Trump shuts door on work and travel students
Thousands of tertiary students hanging on to a thin thread of hope of travelling to the United States in the summer to earn funds to cover tuition and other costs for the upcoming academic year have had those dreams dashed with the Donald Trump...
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Unions Rally to Defund Police and Call for OPOA to Embrace Reform Unions Rally to Defund Police and Call for OPOA to Embrace Reform
Approximately 150 union members and community leaders rallied June 17 at the Oakland Police Officers Association (OPOA, the police officer’s union) at 555 5th Street in Oakland to demand reform. Service Employees International Union, United Service Workers West (SEIU USWW), UNITE HERE 2850, AFSCME
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South Africa: Unions Insist Deadly Eastern Cape Clinics Must Close
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Cameroon: COVID-19 - Unions Oppose Plan to Reopen Schools
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued to be enforced until 1965. They mandated de jure racial
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Morrison, Davis Whyte against salary cuts for politicians, civil servants
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Africa: COVID-19 Will Slow Hotel Development in Africa, Report Says
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Employ Prince Georges Awarded $175K to Strengthen Post-Pandemic Workforce
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We’ve been living under COVID for years, say craft merchants
Craft vendors across the island who have been for years struggling to get a share of the multibillion-dollar tourism pie say that the current coronavirus pandemic has now robbed them of the occasional crumb they would get from the
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Hotels, attractions offering free rooms, day passes to local health care staff
In a move, it said, is designed to honour the medical teams who have been working on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) has announced that it is providing free hotel stays for local health care
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Robert Mugabe
Robert Mugabe , in full Robert Gabriel Mugabe (born February 21, 1924, Kutama, Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]), the first prime minister (1980–87) of the reconstituted state of Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia. A black nationalist of Marxist persuasion, he eventually established one-party rule in
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Benin
By the end of the 1980s, Benins economy was near collapse. As its oil boom ended, Nigeria expelled 100,000 Beninese migrant workers and closed the border with Benin. Kérékous socialist collectivization of Benins agriculture and the ballooning bureaucracy further damaged the economy. By
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida and other states across the Sunbelt are thinning out the deck chairs, turning over the bar stools and rushing to line up more hospital beds as they head into the height of the summer season amid a startling surge in confirmed cases of the
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Atlanta reaches all-time high unemployment rate
Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said Thursday that Atlanta’s unemployment rate spiked in April, breaking its previous all-time high of 10.6 percent set in February of
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Level 3: Government under fire for 'sneakily removing lockdown law'
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Smith, E. June (1900-1982)
E. June Smith, a prominent leader in Seattle’s civil rights movement, was born in Cairo, Illinois in 1900 and worked as a secretary in St. Louis.  Smith came to Seattle with her husband Roscoe O. Smith, a railroad porter, in 1941.  Soon after her arrival, she worked as an insurance agent and, in
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