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Eastern Cape police used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse a group of locals who were breaking lockdown regulations.
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
On Saturday, Oct. 24, the first-ever Vote Early Day, MTV is partnering with top artists to bring one-of-a-kind, pop-up art installations to Atlanta to celebrate and educate voters about their options to vote early and nearby early voting locations. The art installations are part of MTV’s Vote For Your Life campaign and leadership in founding … Continued
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Hundreds of people rioted in Knysna, looting businesses and bringing traffic on the national highway to a halt.
The DA says the National Command Council is considering two lockdown restrictions that could have a disastrous impact on the economy.
Katrina Hasan Hamilton, Co-Chair of Black Minds Matter Advocacy Group of San Diego, a group of African-American parents, community members and educators, penned a letter to Councilmember Shirley Weber this week. The letter expressed the group's 'grave concern' regarding 'actions of Sweetwater Union High School District’s lack of transparency in opening up the search process […]
The post Exclusive to the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint: Local Advocacy Group Requests Open Superintendent Search in Sweetwater appeared first on Voice and Viewpoint.
The St Thomas police have described the issue of praedial larceny as a bitter concern that has been plaguing the parish over the last few months. In response to the surge in agricultural property theft, the police say they have stepped up their...
The body of a man found near a block of flats during evictions in Fleurhof, Johannesburg, is yet to be identified.
Three-year-old Anothando Mhlontlo was last seen in Mandela Park, Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay on Monday 10 August at 13:00.
In addition to my ministry, one of the meaningful ways I accomplish this is by serving as a census campaign partner with LA Voice, an interfaith grassroots organization uniting over 55 congregations and over 40,000 community members to encourage our brothers and sisters to be counted on the 2020 census.
Through countless phone calls, virtual town halls, telethons and digital roundtables, our faith-based community is united and working hard to make sure all of our church members are counted.
Our region, and particularly our African American communities, are expected to be undercounted in the 2020 census.
Tell your community members to take on the pledge to fill out the census and say “I matter.
Our nonprofit organizations, local businesses and our faith community must all work collectively to spread this message far and wide, especially among our African American communities.
When civil rights crusader Ida B. Wells-Barnett died in 1931, the Chicago Defender described her as elegant, striking, and always well groomed . . . regal though somewhat intolerant and impulsive. Throughout Wells-Barnetts career as a journalist, social-political organizer and suffragist, she worked with great fervor to end discrimination based on gender and race.
Early Life
Wells-Barnett was born a slave on July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Miss.
Her father, James Wells, was a skilled carpenter and her mother, Lizzie Warrenton was a cook.
In 1878, Wells parents and her youngest brother, Stanley died in a yellow fever epidemic. At 16 years of age, Wells-Barnett was left to care for five younger siblings. As a result, she stop[ed attending Shaw University and got a certification as a teacher.
Soon after, Wells-Barnett moved to Memphis to work as an educator.
A Court Battle
In 1884, Wells-Barnett sued the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad after being forcibly removed from the train because she refused to move to a segregated car. She sued on the grounds that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 banned discrimination based on race, creed, or color in theaters, hotels, transportation and public facilities. Although Wells-Barnett won the case on the local circuit courts and was awarded $500, the railroad company appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Tennessee.
In 1887, the Supreme Court of Tennessee reversed the lower courts ruling.
Although Wells-Barnett lost the appeal against the railroad company, her experiences as an prompted her career in journalism. Soon, she was writing articles that appeared in The Living Way, a weekly newspaper under the pen name, Iola.
By 1889, Wells-Barnett resigned from her teaching position and became part owner of the African-American newspaper Free Speech and Headlight. Wells-Barnetts partner was Reverend R. Nightingale, the pastor of Beale Street Baptist Church. Urging the congregation and other community members to subscribe to the publication, Wells-Barnett and Nightingale became
Dozens of residents evicted by one commercial farmer in 2013 lived out in the open for months, then later in tents or shoddy housing on the fringes of a government forest reserve, with inadequate access to water and no source of livelihood or permission to cultivate land.
The court ordered the attorney general, the local government and one of the companies at issue to provide relief, including providing alternative land and compensation for rights violations.
The government should swiftly execute this order to ensure that community members have access to land and water and get help with building new homes and returning to farming.
Petitioners had sought more and requested that the court cancel the commercial farm's land title, and questioned the legality of the conversion of their land into a farm block.
The court then ordered the government to provide alternative land and compensation.
Dear Friends of On the Table MKE: Thank you for leading and participating in bold discussions centered on race, community, equity and other topics important in our region as part of the fourth annual On the Table MKE event on Oct. 12 – 14, 2020. Approximately 800 community members attended the all-virtual event featuring a […]
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Washington, D.C. – The NAACP has launched its #WeAreDoneDying campaign, aimed at exposing the inequities embedded into the American health care system and the country at large.
From COVID-19 to running while Black in America, the abuse faced by people of color, particularly African Americans is devastating, according to organization leaders.
The campaign is a call-to-action and highlights the NAACP’s policy interests and supported legislation for African Americans and other people of color, a large demographic that is often left out of recovery effort conversations.
The integrated and interactive content will create actionable steps for people to feel empowered by demanding action from their state’s elected officials on issues such as health care, education, criminal justice, economic justice and voting rights.
“The NAACP Empowerment Programs’ 111 years of advocacy and fighting for the rights of Black people positions us to lead the fight for our community’s interest during this time of uncertainty.”
So when a homeless man told Lester how difficult it was for people living on the streets to wash their hands to avoid catching or spreading the coronavirus, it was only natural for Lester to spring into action.
With those places closed down due to the pandemic, and with hand hygiene more important than ever, Lester decided the solution was to buy portable sinks and distribute them in public places where homeless people tend to gather.
The result was Love Sinks In, a campaign of Lester’s Atlanta-based nonprofit, Love Beyond Walls, which advocates for homeless and underserved populations.
The concept has been so well received that Lester has been recruited by homeless advocates in other cities to bring Love Sinks In to locations including Chicago, Dallas, and Austin; San Bernardino, California; Birmingham, Alabama; Columbus, Ohio; and various locations in New York, Nevada and Utah.
Lester, a father of two, has also written a book on the realities of homeless called “I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People.”
THE COMMUNITY of Clifton in St Catherine has established a farm on more than seven acres of land donated by the Sugar Company of Jamaica Holdings Limited (SCJH). Residents of the area, mainly females, are cultivating okra, corn, tomato, lettuce,...
KwaZulu-Natal snake rescuer Nick Evans has done it again and safely removed a slippery customer from the roof of a kitchen over the weekend.
The MSR took to the streets to ask community members if they would take the vaccine when it's made available to the broader public.
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Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh warned yesterday that the second wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was being spread by young people and appealed to them to follow the measures aimed at curbing the spread of the virus.
The ‘defund the police movement has been causing rifts around the country. Based on the decision of the Seattle City Council, the Seattle Chief of Police has resigned due to…
The acting municipal manager of the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality in Cradock and Middleburg has found himself caught up in stock theft allegations and local residents are calling for his head.
To help prevent further community spread of COVID-19 in vulnerable communities, Sabathani Community Center and the City of Minneapolis have partnered to offer free COVID-19 testing.
Seven escapees overpowered police officers, stole a state firearm from the officers and fled on foot. Shots were also fired randomly as they fled.
Five Masvingo family members have tested positive to COVID-19, a government official said yesterday.The new infections come at a time when complacency has been high among Zimbabweans ever since the infection rate dropped at the onset of summer. By Tatenda Chitagu Masvingo provincial COVID-19 taskforce spokesperson Rogers Irimai said the five, from Rujeko high-density suburb, were asymptomatic and self-isolating at home. “We got new cases where two parents, their two children and a minor relative tested positive for the disease. These are local infections as the parents were not in contact with any known COVID-19 positive returnee or travelled out of the city or country recently,” he said. Irimai said the COVID-19 rapid response team was busy doing contact tracing at the parents’ workplaces in the city, as well as the school where the two minors, who are in Grade 7, were going to. “Our rapid response team is busy doing contact tracing to establish who the patients have been in contact with recently. The teachers and classes at the school where the kids are going are likely to be placed under quarantine, the other kids they play with in their neighbourhood, as well as the workplaces of the parents,” he said. “Let us not be complacent, there is a second wave of COVID-19 that is hitting other countries that had relaxed lockdown measures. We are not divorced from such countries as we do not exist on an island. We are not immune from a second wave which can be more dangerous and come with a stronger strain,” Irimai said. To date, Zimbabwe has recorded 8 444 COVID-19 positive cases, 7 975 recoveries and 248 deaths. Follow Tatenda on Twitter @ProsperTatenda
Gauteng police have arrested two male suspects, aged 16 and 36, in Eden Park following the discovery of the body of a 9-year old girl who had gone missing.
