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[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia's law enforcement operation in the northern part of Ethiopia was distorted and at best misrepresented in reputable media outlets in the West. Tibebe Samuel, who is the Executive Director of Tibebe and Associates, a US based consulting firm, questions "Why are Western Media outlets against Ethiopia?"
He replaces Debretsion Gebremichael, whose immunity from prosecution was removed Thursday.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a \"massacre\" in the Tigray region, that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party.
The \"massacre\" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict between the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
\"Amnesty International can today confirm... that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the southwest of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,\" the rights group said in a report.
Amnesty said it had \"digitally verified gruesome photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers.\"
The dead \"had gaping wounds that appear to have been inflicted by sharp weapons such as knives and machetes,\" Amnesty said, citing witness accounts.
Witnesses said the attack was carried out by TPLF-aligned forces after a defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian military, though Amnesty said it \"has not been able to confirm who was responsible for the killings\".
It nonetheless called on TPLF commanders and officials to \"make clear to their forces and their supporters that deliberate attacks on civilians are absolutely prohibited and constitute war crimes\".
Abiy ordered military operations in Tigray on November 4, saying they were prompted by a TPLF attack on federal military camps -- a claim the party denies.
The region has been under a communications blackout ever since, making it difficult to verify competing claims on the ground.
Abiy said Thursday his army had made major gains in western Tigray.
Thousands of Ethiopians have fled across the border into neighboring Sudan, and the UN is sounding the alarm about a humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
Dr. Dre’s wife Nicole Young filed for divorce from the rapper after 24 years of marriage on Monday.
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Young, who is a lawyer, is seeking spousal support from her soon to be ex-husband.
The majority of Dre’s fortune comes from his successful Beats Electronics which he founded in 2006 with partner Jimmy Iovine.
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Dre has not yet commented on the divorce filing but his marriage was rocked with various scandals from the very beginning.
Four years later, she ended her marriage to pursue a relationship with Dre.
[IPS] United Nations -The deadly coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed the lives of over 372,000 people worldwide, has reinforced the concept of \"social distancing\" which bars any gathering of over 10 or 20 people - whether at a social event, a wedding, a political rally or even a funeral.
According to the New York Times, an entire softball team quit the team in the middle of a series after its general manager, Connie May sent out an ill-advised tweet showing the women standing for the national anthem before a game.
The team, Scrap Yard Pitch was playing USSSA Pride, which the Times says are two of the best independent softball teams in the world, in Melbourne, Florida.
But the first day of the series ended with Scrap Yard Pitch’s 18 players quitting and refusing to play again for the the tweet has since been deleted, the women are steadfast that they are done with the team.
The team’s two Black players, Kelsey Stewart, who was training for the 2020 Olympics before it was postponed, and Kiki Stokes, say they’ve already dealt with racism in the sport but felt this incident was too much to gloss over.
Though the Scrap Yard organization is one of the few that provided resources to mount a pro softball team, the women say they have no regrets.
[East African] The African Union on Tuesday implored the Ethiopian government to go slow on bombarding the troubled Tigray region, even as Addis Ababa insisted the situation was an internal matter.
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Megan Thee Stallion shared the letter she received from Rep. Maxine Waters, who told her that she's proud of her for speaking out for Black women.
Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos has a habit of saying one thing to American media and another overseas. And it appears that The New York Times got wind of his overseas remarks after publication of his latest op-ed.
Standing in front of the Los Angeles Police Department’s North Hollywood station, social activists on Saturday urged LAPD Chief Michel Moore to arrest a local woman they believe — in a racially motivated attack — tackled a 14-year-old boy in a Manhattan hotel lobby over what later turned out to be his own cellphone. “It’s […]
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—General Order No. 3 as read by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865
Contrary to recent claims by President Trump, the holiday of Juneteenth was quite well known before this year.
And it is true that Juneteenth has taken on a special significance this year, and not only because President Trump awkwardly scheduled a campaign rally for the day in Tulsa, the site of the worst incident of racial violence in American history.
Most major corporations, including the NFL, Mastercard, Lyft and Uber, have made the day a paid holiday, as have media companies such as New York Times, The Washington Post and Vox Media have also made Juneteenth a company holiday.
Growing up with parents who were civil rights activists in the late 1960s and early 1970s, my family celebrated Juneteenth, along with Emancipation Day celebrations on Jan. 1 and Watch Night parties on New Year’s Eve.
Enthusiasm for Juneteenth seemed to wane after Martin Luther King Day became a federal holiday in 1983.
New York City will stop placing medically vulnerable incarcerated people into solitary confinement, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The move comes after Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco, a trans woman, died in solitary confinement at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex last year.
De Blasio referenced the death of Kalief Browder as one of the main reasons why the city was eager to end solitary confinement.
\"We ended [solitary confinement] already for young people, and New York City led the way in this nation in addressing the fact that we should not have young people in solitary confinement.
Layleen Polanco should not have been in solitary confinement and lord knows, she deserves justice.
He's faced obstacles because of race, sexuality and addiction. Here's how this chef says we can embrace inclusion.
Cops, a popular TV series in the U.S., has been canceled.
The TV series that featured police officers in action was canceled a few days to its 33rd season, and there are no signs that it will return.
“Cops is not on the Paramount Network, and we don’t have any current or plans for it to return,” a spokesperson for the network told New York Times.
The organization has been a long time critic for the American TV series.
“For more than 30 years, Cops has miseducated the public and normalized injustice,” the vice president of Color Of Change, Arisha Hatch, said in a statement.
Martin H. Nesbitt is Co-Chief Executive Officer and founder of Vistria Group, LLC. In this role, he shares the leadership role of the Chicago-based investment company focused on education, healthcare and financial services industries.
Prior to co-founding Vistria, Nesbitt was Chief Executive Officer of The Parking Spot, an owner and operator of off-airport parking facilities. Nesbitt conceptualized and co-founded The Parking Spot and was responsible for running all its strategic and operating aspects.
Nesbitt’s approach to the off-airport parking business was heralded by industry insiders as extremely innovative and has been recognized in national publications like The New York Times, USA Today, and Fortune Small Business Magazine. Nesbitt is a former Board member of the Chicago 2016 Olympic Committee.
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The Democratic vice presidential sweepstakes have heated to a boil with Congressional Black Caucus Chair Karen Bass (D-Calif.), former U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) presumably the front-runners.
This morning (June 26) West tweeted teasers of what to expect with the hashtag “#WESTDAYEVER” including a “YZY” logo styled in recognizable GAP logo
Per the New York Times, Yeezy’s design studio is tasked with creating “modern, elevated basics for men, women and kids at accessible price points.”
The Gap, which owns Old Navy and Banana Republic, truly believes in Mr. West because the deal is reportedly for 10 years (starting this month) and will have an option to tag on another five years.
According to the NYT, based on sales the Gap will pay royalties and maybe even equity to the Yeezy brand, which is owned by West.
Longtime Kanye West fans will certainly recall that Kanye West once worked at the Gap in retail as a teenager while he dreamed of becoming a Hip-Hop star.
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Williams’ journey from Texarkana, Texas to Motown and global superstardom, is chronicled in his acclaimed autobiography, “Temptations,” written with The New York Times best-selling author Patricia Romanowski, as well as “The Temptations,” an Emmy Award-Winning television mini-series.
Williams is unlike any other musical artist in American culture.
Williams revealed that he isn’t among the millions who’ve watched the television min-series.
“Too emotional,” Williams stated, noting that Robinson has encouraged him to “Break out the Kleenex and watch it.”
“As I look back in the rear-view mirror of my life, Motown was no happenstance,” Williams stated about the famed record label responsible for the Temptations, Robinson, Marvin Gaye and so many others.
After giving South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham a somewhat tough re-election fight in November, Jaime Harrison has been chosen to lead the DNC.
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Just one day after putting out a dire emergency warning, Ethiopia's federal government has agreed to allow the United Nations "unimpeded" humanitarian access to parts of the northern Tigray region, according to a UN spokesperson.
One day before the Associated Press and other media outlets called the 2020 presidential election for Democrat Joe Biden, San Francisco Sun-Reporter Publisher Amelia Ashley-Ward communicated with her longtime homegirl Kamala Harris.
Thanks to her award-winning writing, Maya Angelou was internationally known decades before her death at age 86 in 2014. Despite her fame and her many memoirs, many interesting details about her life remain widely unknown to the public. Familiarize yourself with the life and work of Maya Angelou with this list of interesting facts about her life.
It’s uncertain how many times Angelou married, the New York Times reported in her obituary. “Throughout her life, she was cagey about the number of times she married — it appears to have been at least three — for fear, she said, of appearing frivolous,” the Times noted.
Although Angelou married a number of times, she bore just one child, a son named Guy Johnson. She gave birth to him at the age of 16. He was the product of a brief romance Angelou had with a neighborhood boy in Northern California.
During her young adulthood, Angelou became the first black woman to work as a streetcar conductor in San Francisco, according to the Times.
Although Angelou stood 6 feet tall, she managed to carve out a career as a dancer as a young woman. She even danced with the likes of Alvin Ailey.
Angelou rose to fame after the publication of her 1969 memoir, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. That book made history, as it marked the first time an autobiography by an African-American woman became a best-seller in the United States.
Caged Bird was far from Angelou’s only memoir. The writer followed that effort up with Gather Together in My Name (1974), Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (1976), The Heart of a Woman (1981), All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986) and A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002). Moreover, in 2013, Angelou’s memoir about her relationship with her mother, Mom & Me & Mom, debuted.
A globe trotter, Angelou spoke a number of languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic and the West African language Fanti, according to her website.
Angelou had a seafood allergy. Apparently, it was so severe that she requested people not to eat seafood prior
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