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Generation Z voters - here is what the establishment doesn't want you to know, and here's why you should vote now.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
The growing disdain for Biden among young Democratic voters has been predicted to dwindle with the promise of a Black woman as vice president, but for many, this is not the case.
This sentiment is shared amongst many young Black voters who are weary of the Democratic Party’s unfulfilled promises as a whole.
Still, other young Black voters aren’t impressed with the pool of choices, and the disdain for Biden is so much that they would risk another four years of Trump.
“I hate to say it, but between Biden and Trump, I’d still vote Trump,” says one young Black woman.
There seems to be no guarantee that the Democratic party will achieve its intended end if Biden chooses a Black woman to run alongside him.
Comcast and REVOLT, the hip-hop content platform owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs, have announced an agreement to expand the network’s availability to new markets. According to a press release, beginning…
TAXPAYERS COULD see a huge windfall of nearly $750 million if Jamaica holds both the local government and general elections together.
The local government vote is due in November this year, while the general election is due next February.
However, with the constitutional allowance of three months post due date in special circumstances, local government elections can be held no later than next February.
Ruling parties have often used local government polls as a test of the political temperature before lining up their ducks for the general election.
There is currently no fixed date for voting in Jamaica, but general elections are constitutionally due every five years, and local government polls every three years.
New Findings Reveal Stark Racial Disparities and Barriers to the Ballot
WASHINGTON, DC –Leading civil rights organizations today released a new analysis that reveals stark racial disparities and troubling patterns in voter turnout during Wisconsin’s April 7, 2020 primary, held during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The analysis, “COVID-19 Silence Voters of Color in Wisconsin,” was conducted by data experts from Demos and All Voting Is Local, a project of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
Reviewing voter data from last month’s Wisconsin primary, the groups found significant gaps in voter participation across the state – exposing existing flaws in our election system and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and brown voters who already face significant structural barriers at the ballot box.
“Our analysis shows how COVID-19 has exaggerated problems in our election system,” said Dr. Megan A. Gall, All Voting is Local’s national data director, “We know African Americans and Latinos have long faced barriers to the ballot.
The analysis further highlights that for wards with higher Black and Hispanic populations in Milwaukee, average voter turnout was 30 percent lower than the average voter turnout in white wards.
She and friend Sharon Jones-Scaife, an author/illustrator, have teamed up to write and illustrate a new book explaining coronavirus in simple terms for children.
The children’s book is called Maddie On A Mission.
The authors collaborated to write Maddie On A Mission to make it easy for children to understand why their worlds have changed so dramatically in the last few months, and to explain quarantine and social distancing in a story that young people can understand, and enjoy.
Dr. Waggoner adds, “Children have a lot of questions like, ‘What is a virus?’
“This book aims to provide a resource to help parents talk to their children about the coronavirus pandemic by discussing germs, quarantine, social distancing, and how staying at home can help to stop the spread of the virus,” Dr. Waggoner said.
Tina Knowles-Lawson has teamed up with African Pride to increase Black voter turnout.
Stop the Violence rally has good turnout
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Mali's President Ibrahim Boubakar Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse have been arrested by mutinying soldiers, according to reports. This came hours after soldiers took up arms and staged a mutiny at a key base in Kati, a town close to the capital, Bamako Tuesday morning. 'We can tell you that the president and the...
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By Tali Arbel Associated Press Several civil rights and other advocacy groups are calling on large advertisers to stop Facebook ad campaigns during July because they say the social network isn’t doing enough to curtail racist and violent content on its platform. The groups in the “#StopHateforProfit” campaign launch, include Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Sleeping []
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Over the last few months, Biden has received impressive polling results. More importantly, Biden has done well in polls in states he must win on the electoral map. By September 1, Biden’s polling was solid. Five polls released on September 2, demonstrated the following: Quinnipiac: Biden 52%, Trump 42% (+10), USAT/Suffolk: Biden 50%, Trump 43% (+7), Reuters/Ipsos: Biden 47%, Trump 40% (+7), Grinnell/Selzer: Biden 49%, Trump 41% (+8), Economist/YouGov: Biden 51%, Trump 40% (+11).
George Floyd is sadly one of many, many African Americans who have been the victim of racial profiling and brutality.
Two men participating in that march — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and UAW President Walter Reuther — were dedicated to breaking the color lines and fighting for equality in wages, opportunities, housing, healthcare and fair societal treatment.
Because of socioeconomic and environmental factors — many due to continued disparity in opportunities — when COVID-19 struck this country it hit people of color especially hard.
The task force will act in an advisory capacity to the Governor and study the causes of racial disparities in the impact of COVID-19 and recommend actions to immediately address such disparities and the historical and systemic inequities that underlie them.
When we look at the many tragic incidents over the past decades, most recently Mr. Floyd’s horrific death, I can only think that we as a nation failed this young man, as we have failed so many others.
Oct. 5 voter registration deadline quickly approaches — Georgia League of Women Voters president, Lucy Hale, calls students to action this election season. In the 2016 election, young people 18 to 29 years old contributed only 19% of votes. As we near the next election in the midst of ongoing pandemic, turnout is a bigger...
Send an email with the subject “summer camps” in the subject field to moving operations online or proceeding with on-site programs, summer camp leaders are rethinking protocols to limit contact and prioritize the safety of their staff, campers and families.
Many of the campers who typically attend weekly in-person programs are the children of essential workers who depend on camp services as child care, said Lynn Greb, the recreation director for the Milwaukee Recreation Department, which runs through Milwaukee Public Schools.
Summit Educational Association, which normally runs a full time, seven-week program for students in the fourth to eighth grades, also plans to provide an in-person camp, with programs scheduled to run five days a week starting June 22 until Aug. 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Here are more updates on how local programs are adapting their summer programming due to COVID-19:
The 7 Generations YEP Summer Day Camp at the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center has always been a space for native youth ages 7 to 12 to participate in activities focused on well-being, mental health and their indigenous culture.
Families can reach out to Lynn Anders, the environmental education manager, at a nonprofit that typically hosts tutoring and sports camps all summer long, plans to continue programs virtually through live fitness workout videos on its Facebook page Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
“With his Club Quarantine parties, Derrick has created a space where folks can come together from living rooms and basements all over the world to let off some steam, dance it out and just enjoy each other’s company,” Obama, who referred to Jones as her friend, said.
“Partying with a purpose…his turntables have provided a soundtrack for so many of our volunteers, helping us reach more than 400,000 eligible voters throughout our recent couch parties,\" she added.
In late March, Club Quarantine partnered with Obama's organization When We All Vote to encourage those tuning in to register to vote, as Blavity previously reported.
The 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day comes during a big election year, with 65 major elections worldwide. Register, grab your friends and vote green.
The Collective Political Action Committee has announced a campaign to register 250,000 African American voters on Juneteenth.
According to a release, The Collective, a group dedicated to electing black candidates, will launch its “Vote to Live” campaign, an attempt to register 250,000 African American voters.
The Vote to Live campaign is a data driven voter engagement program to reach African American voters through digital advertising, mail, and text messaging.
On Thursday June 18, The Collective will launch an extensive digital voter registration campaign using online ads aimed at reaching unregistered Black voters.
“The Black vote is powerful and when we vote, we change the course of history,” The Collective’s Founder and President
Quentin James said in a press release.
This weekend marks the first round of elections for 568 seats in the lower house of parliament.
Election Day is exactly 42 days away, marking a deadline that could result in severe outcomes depending on who is elected as the next president of the United States.
I am angry because I am tired of seeing Black people in America continually be subject to the same behaviors by those in “positions of power.”
It’s pathetic that in the year 2020 we are still asking for fair treatment in the communities, schools, justice system, and workplace.
I am a professionally trained lobbyist and community organizer that has worked in and around politics and policy for almost 17 years at the local, state and federal levels of government and one thing that I am constantly reminded…I am Black!
So, if you have a police force that continually abuses Black people that tone is set by the Police Chief and you have a Mayor and City Council that are allowing it.
In 2016, Black voter turnout was 59.6% in the Presidential election and lower than that in some local races.
It will be streaming live)
Chicago, IL: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. is hosting a one-on-one virtual national elected/public official virtual town hall meeting with Massachusetts Democratic Senator and former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren from 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. CST, Saturday, June 6th, to talk about the presidential election 2020 and other current key issues including the fallout over the murder of George Floyd and the fight for reform and healing.
Rev. Jackson and Senator Warren will discuss whether George Floyd’s death can trigger national healing especially the long awaited police reform, how to reduce COVID-19 in communities of color, the perils of reopening America, and Sen. Warren’s views on the presidential election 2020.
Part II of the Town Hall meeting will feature Rainbow PUSH Coalition host Cerelyn J. Davis, the first African American police chief in Durham, N.C., who is also president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement (NOBLE), who will give an analysis of the “State-of-Our-Country” in law enforcement.
The town hall meeting will be moderated by Santita Jackson, the daughter of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., who is also a talk show host on WCPT-AM in Chicago.
Rainbow PUSH Coalition is a multi-racial, multi-issue, progressive, international organization that was formed in December 1996 by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. through merging of two organizations he founded Operation PUSH People United to Serve Humanity (estab.
Sentiments surrounding the killing of George Floyd and the plight of Black people in the United States resonated deeply throughout the group.
Pausing several times to compose himself, Howell continued:
“It was so traumatizing to me as an individual, as a Black man.
I understand the pain because I feel it; I can understand despair because I’m experiencing I. the destruction is a manifestation of centuries of Black disenfranchisement in this country.
Wane Hailes of the Courier Eco Latino newspaper in Columbus, Ga., also fought back tears while discussing Floyd’s killing under the knee of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin.
To have a man, have another man on the ground with his knees on his throat and when he called for his momma.,” Henry concluded, as his voice trailed off.
Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika has appointed a new electoral commission chairperson ahead of a presidential re-run.
The country’s Constitutional Court in February ordered a fresh presidential election be held within 150 days after annulling last year’s re-election of President Mutharika – a ruling upheld by the Supreme Court.
The former commission chairperson Jane Ansah resigned amid criticism by the opposition on how she managed the disputed election.
President Mutharika on Sunday appointed Justice Chifundo Kachale to head the electoral commission.
The new chairperson is expected by voters to deliver a credible presidential election devoid of irregularities as ordered by the courts.
Tunis/Tunisia — The draft of a programme for young people excluded from the school system, vocational training and work was at the heart of a ministerial meeting chaired on Wednesday by Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh.
It is a project that proposes the establishment of a programme to reintegrate young people into the world of work or in academic or vocational training, a statement of the Prime Ministry reads.
\"The presence of a thousand young people excluded from the various academic and professional systems is a loss for the national community,\" says the Prime Minister.
To this end, he ordered the formation of a working team to develop a strategy around a training programme that meets the aspirations and expectations of young people.
The meeting was attended by the ministers of justice, defence, the interior, the civil service, finance, education, higher education, cultural affairs, social affairs and the ministry of youth and sports.
Yesterday Gov. Gavin Newsom leaned over the hood of an electric car and signed an executive order to phase out new gas-powered vehicles in California by 2035 and halt new fracking projects by 2024. It was exactly the kind of “big, hairy, audacious” move that Newsom has made his calling card: one guaranteed to generate […]
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Worried about the economy amidst COVID-19, young people in Seychelles say they want to see the island nation diversify away from its reliance on tourism and grow the island nation's ICT sector and agriculture production to lower its reliance on imports.
SNA spoke to several young people to get their point of view on how COVID-19 has impacted Seychelles, what changes they would like to see as well as opportunities presented.
Echoing the need to diversify the economy, Jade Jules told SNA that though the country is small, Seychelles has a lot of potential.
Angelique Popounneau, another young Seychellois, told SNA that COVID-19 has provided the country with an opportunity to test the 'working from home' concept which most organisations or people were not employing before the pandemic.
Popounneau, who is chief executive of the Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust (SeyCCAT), added that whether people will see the working from home concept continue into the future, depends on the willingness of the organisations to create work environments that work for their workers.
As the congregations of Wake Eden Community Baptist and the Bronx Baptist churches saw Jeremiah Simpson, the 75-year-old father of eight children and grandfather of 23, he was much more than a deacon of the Bronx Baptist that was founded half a century ago by the late Rev. Dr. Samuel D. Simpson.
“Deacon Jerry was a branch of each family tree, the quintessential pillar of the church,” said the Rev Frank Williams, senior pastor of both religious institutions.
“Deacon Jerry was the brother of the churches’ founder and his mission was clear: to serve the Lord and the church,” added Pastor William.
Whether it was in devout worship, involvement in the operations of the food pantry and soup kitchen, undertaking spring or fall cleaning, maintaining church property or getting people to and from services and other activities the story was the same: Deacon Jerry’s hand was on the throttle.
Professionally, he was a maintenance engineer in Mt.
Sinai Medical Center’s Department of Building Services and when he was not working diligently to ensure that hospital facilities were functioning at maximum efficiency, Deacon Jerry served the sick in an additional way: he visited ailing members of Bronx Baptist Church and the homebound to give them a spiritual lift.
Courier Staff Writer
George Floyd, the African American man who resided in Minneapolis and was known to many as a “gentle giant,” went from vivacious to lifeless, all at the hands of a White Minneapolis police officer who’s now been charged with murder.
Pittsburgh’s police chief, Scott E. Schubert, was so perturbed by what he, along with the rest of the world, saw (video of the May 25 encounter), that he addressed his entire police force in a May 29 letter, effectively telling them to never act anywhere close to the manner that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin did.
Chief Schubert then added: “As police officers, we have a fundamental duty to care for and safeguard everyone and anyone in our custody…there was no consideration for the value of human life and that is inexcusable.”
Chief Schubert was referring to the other Minneapolis police officers on-scene who did not intervene and stop fellow officer Chauvin from continuing his knee-on-neck maneuver on Floyd.
Valerie Dixon, the vice chair of B-PEP, said during the May 29 press conference in the Hill District that when a White officer kills an unarmed Black person, “our young people see a devalue in their human Black lives.
