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An 11-year-old Black girl was killed when she was ejected from a vehicle after a New York trooper rammed into the back of the car her father was driving
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.
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The rapper Casanova has surrendered to law enforcement following his indictment in a gang-related federal racketeering case, authorities said Thursday.... View Article
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An Arkansas police officer who threatened to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters was charged for fatally shooting his colleague who knocked on his door. Alexander […]
A South Carolina woman was charged after she confronted an 11-year-old Black girl she falsely accused of stealing from her mailbox.
On May 11, Skhylur Davis and three other children went to her grandmother’s mailbox in Aiken, South Carolina, to retrieve the mail, reported The Augusta Chronicle.
While she was standing outside holding the items, Elizabeth Shirey, her grandmother’s neighbor, “approached her in an aggressive manner and demanded her mail back,” stated an Aiken Public Safety incident report.
“Mrs. Shirey happens to see this young child by her mailbox and proceeds to come out of her home, yell at this 11-year-old girl.
Mrs. Shirey runs aggressively towards this 11-year-old child accusing her of committing a felony, stealing her mail,” Bamberg continued.
We spent time with Audi’s A7 Sportback and discovered the true alternative to oversized luxury SUVs, is a take on the classic liftback idea.
[East African] Patrick Youssef, the International Committee of the Red Cross Director of Operations for Africa, spoke to Fred Oluoch about the challenges on the continent
The Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority (BCLA), Dr. Shantal Munro-Knight says the Mia Mottley-led administration is moving ahead with plans to develop a medicinal cannabis industry.
Soledad O’Brien is an award-winning journalist, speaker, author and philanthropist. She is the CEO of Starfish Media Group, a multi-platform media production company dedicated to telling empowering and authentic stories on range of social issues. O’Brien anchors and produces the Hearst Television political magazine program “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien.” She also reports regularly …
Amy Cooper’s frantic call to police because a Black man named Christian Cooper told her to put her dog on a leash is creating more change than she could have imagined.
According to the New York Post, the legislation was introduced back in 2018 but Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn) reintroduced the bill due to Amy Cooper’s viral video showing her harassing a bird watcher and calling the cops.
A false 911 call based on race should be classified as a hate crime in the state of New York.”
Assemblyman Ortiz told the New York Post, violators could face between one and five years in prison, in accordance with the state’s hate crime statute “if the motivation for reporting such crime is motivated by a perception or belief about their race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation.”
RELATED: Central Park ‘Karen’ Seen Calling Police On Black Man Apologizes After Viral Outrage And Job Suspension
Amy Cooper, known on social media as Central Park Karen, went viral after a video posted to Twitter on Monday (May 25) showed her calling police on Christian Cooper, a birdwatcher in Central Park.
Melody Barnes was chosen by then President-elect Barack Obama to serve as the Director of Domestic Policy Council shortly after the presidential election in 2008, a position she held until her resignation at the end of 2011. Born in Richmond, Virginia to Charles and Mary Frances Barnes in 1964, Barnes obtained her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of North Carolina, with Honors in History, in 1986. She then earned her law degree from the University of Michigan in 1989. Barnes is a member of the state bar of New York and the District of Columbia Bar Association.
Barnes began her legal career in New York, working at the home office of Shearman and Sterling, LLP, an international law firm, from 1989-92. Thereafter, she served as assistant counsel to the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Notable legislative achievements of the subcommittee include the passage of the Voting Rights Improvement Act of 1992.
In 1994, she served as Director for Legislative Affairs for the Equal Opportunity Commission, leaving in 1995 to assume the position of chief counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a position she held until 2003.
From 2004-08, Ms. Barnes was the Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress, though she served stints as a principal and lobbyist at the Raban Group, a public policy advocacy group, in 2003 and again in 2008. She has also served as a board member for several organizations, including Emily’s List, The Constitution Project, and the Maya Angelou Public Charter School.
Ms. Barnes was the senior domestic policy advisor to Obama for America, the organization primarily responsible for the successful 2008 presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama. In this role, she was a key advisor in shaping the campaign’s education and health care agenda.
Upon election of President-elect Obama, his transition office announced leaders of its agency review team to examine the inner workings of more than
Crystal Caldwell was attacked twice by a white couple.
Black Leadership Matters Dr. David E. Jackson @dejacksonii Black lives matter – shout it from the housetops! But merely asserting the value of African-American lives is not enough to get our people to the promised land; nor is any party, politician, or program. Black lives matter most when they have purpose, and purpose comes from … Continued
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African Americans are a demographic minority in the United States. African-Americans initial achievements in various fields historically establish a foothold, providing a precedent for more widespread cultural change. The shorthand phrase for this is breaking the color barrier.[1] [2]
In addition to major, national- and international-level firsts, African-Americans have achieved firsts on a statewide basis.
First elected African-American lieutenant governor: Oscar Dunn, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
May: First African-American acting governor: Oscar James Dunn of Louisiana from May till August 9, 1871, when sitting Governor Warmoth was incapacitated and chose to recuperate in Mississippi. (See also: Douglas Wilder, 1990)
First African-American police officer in Chicago, Illinois: James L. Shelton.[3]
First African-American governor of Louisiana: P. B. S. Pinchback (Also first in U.S.) (Non-elected; see also Douglas Wilder, 1990)
First African-American Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and of any state legislature: John R. Lynch
First African American elected to the Indiana general assembly: James Sidney Hinton.[4] [5]
First African American elected to political office on the West Coast: Frederick Madison Roberts, California State Assembly
First African Americans elected as judges in the state of New York: James S. Watson and Charles E. Toney[citation needed]
First African-American attorney general of Massachusetts: Edward Brooke. Also first African American to hold Massachusetts statewide office, and first African-American attorney general of any state.
First African American woman Texas state senator: Barbara Jordan
First African American appointed to New York State Board of Regents: Kenneth Bancroft Clark
First African American senator from Massachusetts: Edward Brooke. (Also first post-Reconstruction African American elected to the U.S. Senate and first African American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote).
First African-American woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar:
While Megan Fox has turned down numerous military films, she accepted 'Rogue' partly because of the attraction of coming to Africa.
Emma, a six year old girl, was abandoned by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend at a busy Queens intersection.
Mishka Peart saw the little girl at 140th Ave. from Springfield Blvd. in Laurelton wearing a surgical mask on her face.
Peart drove little Emma to Montbellier Park and found two school safety agents.
And according to New York Daily News, “Later that day, Emma’s dad, Kermit Watson, 52, heard police bang on the front door of his apartment, near where Emma was dropped off.
Officers had questions about Emma, and an accusation, made by Chambers, that she had shown up with Emma earlier in the morning and that Watson had turned them away.”
Currently in his 13th term in Congress, Edolphus Towns is a Democratic Representative from the State of New York. Towns was born in Chadbourn, North Carolina on July 21, 1934, and attended the public schools of Chadbourn before graduating with a B.S. degree from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University in 1956. After graduating he served for two years in the U.S. Army and then taught in several New York City public schools, Fordham University, and Medgar Evars College. He received his master’s degree in social work from Adelphi University in 1973.
Between 1965 and 1975 Towns worked as program director of the Metropolitan Hospital and as assistant administrator at Beth Israel Hospital. He was also employed by several Brooklyn area healthcare and youth and senior citizen organizations.
In 1972 Towns was elected Democratic state committeeman in Brooklyn. Four year later, in 1976, he became the first African American Deputy Borough president of Brooklyn, a position he held until 1982. That same year Representative Frederick W. Richmond resigned from the House. Towns won the vacated seat in the November election.
Edolphus Towns has been treasurer and vice chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, and is currently a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Government Reform Committee. Through these committees he is active on the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, the Health Subcommittee, the Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee, and is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
Some of Towns’s major legislative achievements include the “Student Right to Know Act,” new bilingual education programs, health related changes like greater Medicare reimbursement for mid-level practitioners, federal funding for poison control centers, and new standards for clinical trials on children. He also created the Telecommunications Development Fund to assist small and minority telecommunications businesses. Towns is also
The founder of an all-Black armed activist group is facing a federal charge after the FBI alleges he aimed a rifle at federally deputized task force officers during a September rally in Louisville, Kentucky. FBI agents arrested John Fitzgerald Johnson, the founder of the Not F**king Around Coalition who is also known as Grand Master Jay, Thursday at his home. […]
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The city of New York was hit by a tsunami of violence over the weekend. Several incidents of shootings and... View Article
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Delivering the eulogy at a memorial service inside a university chapel in Minneapolis, Sharpton said Floyd’s fate – dying at the hands of police, pinned to the ground under the knee of a white officer – symbolized a universal experience of police brutality for African Americans.
Memorial tributes for Floyd occurred in Minneapolis, where he was killed on May 25, and in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn, a major flashpoint for demonstrations stirred by his death.
In the nation’s capital on Thursday, hundreds if not thousands assembled for a rally at the Lincoln Memorial, many sitting on the ground listening to speakers and chanting, “Say his name – George Floyd,” before an evening thunderstorm dispersed the crowd.
Floyd’s brother, Terrence Floyd, joined an outdoor memorial on Thursday in a Brooklyn park where many in the crowd knelt in the grass in the afternoon sunshine in a symbol of protest and chanted, “No justice, no peace.”
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio took the stage to pledge that Floyd’s death would lead to substantive changes in police practices in the nation’s largest city, and called for greater interracial empathy.
By Raymond Ward, The New 411 Family and friends gathered late last month at the historic Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem to celebrate the life of Stanley Crouch, the 74-year-old author, journalist, critic, playwright, poet and NEA jazz master who died in New York in September. The Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, pastor of the Abyssinian […]
Since our local 'public' school system (MPS) is foregoing student testing during the pandemic, I thought I'd fill the void by posing civics question that will assist students in understanding how government works, and for whom: Why is the state teacher's union lobbying Governor Tony Evers to close private and charter schools offering in-person education, […]
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By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After four years of President Donald Trump serving as his own chief spokesperson and frequently peddling false information and conspiracy theories in the process, successor Joe Biden is pledging to return to a more traditional approach to communicating with Americans. Much of that work will fall to Jen Psaki, Biden's pick for White House press secretary. She's a veteran communications staffer who has worked on many top Democratic campaigns and held leading roles under President Barack Obama, including deputy press secretary and White House communications director, as well as spokesperson for the […]
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We must change our behaviour now to prevent a resurgence of the virus and manage outbreaks wherever they occur, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his address on Thursday night.
Braunwyn Windham-Burke came out as lesbian on Wednesday. “I like women. I’m gay,” Windham-Burke announced in an interview with Anthony Ramos, head of talent for GLAAD, which advocates for fair and equal treatment of the LGBTQ community in entertainment and media. “It has taken me 42 years to say that, but I am so proud […]
The real looting happens when innocent Black men are gunned down by police officers with no cause or justification.”
Foy, who once helped elect New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, says he’s the exact type of mayor who should be held accountable for reneging on his promises to the Black community and for letting the officer who choked Garner to death remain on the force for years.
“Specifically, we are demanding independent and thorough investigations of violent police officers,” Carr wrote in an op-ed for The New York Daily News.
Garner’s mother is scheduled to speak to Juneteenth protesters in Washington, D.C., alongside the loved ones of two other Black men killed by New York City police, Drive to Justice organizers told HuffPost.
Outside San Francisco City Hall, hundreds listened to rallying cries from Gwen Woods, the mother of a Black man, Mario Woods, shot dead by police in 2015.
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — A white woman is charged with assaulting an 11-year-old black girl, Skhylur Davis in what the girl’s lawyer calls a racially motivated attack.
Elizabeth Shirey accused Davis of stealing her mail on May 11, attorney Justin Bamberg said.
Skhylur told police that Shirey “attempted to grab the mail away from her and in the process, grabbed her by the arms and pulled them,” a report from the Aiken Department of Public Safety states.
When Shirey saw the address on the mail and realized it was not hers, she let Skhylur go and apologized, the girl told officers, according to the police report.
“After realizing that Skhylur had not done anything wrong, this woman proceeds to offer her cookies, as though that makes things better,” Bamberg said.
