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A Former Texas state trooper has been accused of sexual assault. Lee Ray Boykin Jr. has been arrested and charged... View Article
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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.
By Word in Black Remote or distance learning in the age of COVID-19 continues to be an enormous challenge for teachers and parents as they try to meet the needs of each and every student. For the 7 million pupils with special needs and or learning disabilities, it’s even more imperative that resources and methodology […]
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Hair Love creator and writer Matthew A. Cherry dropped the bombshell announcement on Twitter today that Blue Ivy Carter will be narrating the audiobook of his Oscar-winning short film Hair Love.
By Julianne Malveaux For a lot of people, especially in the Black community, conversations about death are uneasy. Nobody wants to candidly face their mortality. Some want to 'leave it in God's hands.' Some have given more thought to homegoing service details – the preacher, choir, and repast – than to some of the … Continued
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Police in KwaZulu-Natal are still searching for the perpetrators behind the killing of Coastal TVET College Head of Infrastructure Lindinkosi Mazibuko
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden's top allies on Capitol Hill adopted a combative posture on COVID-19 relief on Thursday, pressing their case for a $2 trillion bill that's a nonstarter for Republicans and faulting the GOP for dragging its feet on acknowledging Biden's victory. The message from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. — both of whom witnessed disappointing outcomes in House and Senate races last week — was that Republicans should concede Biden won and immediately return to negotiations on COVID relief, with the Democrats' $2.4 trillion […]
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Now that former Vice President Joe Biden has been widely recognized as the winner of the 2020 Presidential election, Donald... View Article
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By Julianne Malveaux For a lot of people, especially in the Black community, conversations about death are uneasy. Nobody wants to candidly face their mortality. Some want to 'leave it in God's hands.' Some have given more thought to homegoing service details – the preacher, choir, and repast – than to some of the more … Continued
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In summary As the pandemic drags on into the winter, EDD blunders and slim unemployment benefits have left jobless Californians virtually fending for themselves. As coronavirus resurges 10 months into a devastating pandemic, many jobless Californians have exhausted their options and are hanging on to what little government support remains. Once padded by an extra […]
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President-elect Joe Biden hasn’t even taken office yet but he's hiring. Read More: Lies that Biden ‘lost’ Penn. take hold... View Article
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - After a 15-year effort by his family and members of Congress, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a bill authorizing a posthumous Medal of Honor for U.S. Army Sgt. First Class [...]
By Trinity Collins Special to the AFRO Morgan State University’s student-athletes are faced with one of their toughest challenges: a semester without sports. “Life is definitely different,” said Mykaela Ross, a senior volleyball outside hitter. “As athletes, we were always on the go, so we always had food in our stomachs. So now it’s like, […]
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[Atlantic Council] Recent events in the Tigray region of Ethiopia have made international headlines. Read as Atlantic Council Africa Center experts react, analyzing what the conflict means for the country and its neighbors:
Stacey Abrams is being heralded for helping to turn Georgia blue to boost the Biden-Harris ticket and may now be... View Article
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After his wife tested positive for the coronavirus, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger plans to get tested and to... View Article
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Black Lives Matter activist Cori Bush scored a number of firsts when she won her race for Congress in Missouri on November 3. The 44-year-old St. Louis native became the first Black congresswoman from the state of Missouri as Blavity previously reported . But like many new members of Congress lately, Bush has some tough decisions to make, including what to wear to Capitol Hill. The reality of being a regular person going to Congress is that it’s really expensive to get the business clothes I need for the Hill. So I’m going thrift shopping tomorrow. Should I do a fashion show? ⬇️ — Cori Bush (@CoriBush) November 11, 2020 Thankfully a few congresswomen gave her some expert advice on how to look congressional on a budget.
George Branham III is a professional ten-pin bowler and former member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). He began his career in 1984 and retired at the end of the 2003 season. His career is most noted because he was the first African American to win a PBA tour title as well as win the Tournament […]
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Former Ghananian president Jerry Rawlings, 73, is dead.
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis pledged Wednesday to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offered prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a day after the Vatican released a detailed report into the decadeslong church cover-up of his sexual misconduct. The Vatican report blamed a host of bishops, cardinals and popes for […]
By COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard does not discriminate against Asian American applicants, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in a decision that offers relief to other colleges that consider race in admissions, but also sets the stage for a potential review by an increasingly conservative U.S. Supreme Court. The decision came from two judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston who rejected claims from an anti-affirmative action group that accused the Ivy League University of imposing a 'racial penalty' on Asian Americans. The judges upheld a previous ruling clearing Harvard of discrimination […]
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