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Grammy Award winner Lady Gaga was honored Sunday at the 2021 Beloved Community Awards organized by the King Center, and... View Article
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\t While no one claimed responsibility for the attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed the finger at Israel, calling the killing an act of ``\"state terror.''
\t ``Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice _ with serious indications of Israeli role _ shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,'' Zarif wrote on Twitter.
School reopening will be the primary agenda item today at 9:30 a.m., as Georgia school districts reopen in-person classes while the state hits over 216,000 cases of coronavirus, Georgia Democrats will share the stories of parents, students, and school employees that have been endangered by Georgia’s reckless reopening. Speakers at the press conference include State […]
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I HAVE seen first-hand the devastating impact health inequalities can have on people’s lives. I...
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On Tuesday, November 3, 2020, the most critical election of our lifetime will take place, and we must vote. This year, our lives and livelihoods are at stake, as our … Continued
The post WE HAVE A JOB TO DO: Get to the Polls and Vote this Election appeared first on Chicago Defender.
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[CPJ] On January 14, 2021, incumbent Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will seek a sixth term, amid challenges from opposition candidates Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, and Patrick Oboi Amuriat, according to multiple news reports. During the general election campaign, security personnel have arrested both candidates and violently dispersed political rallies and protests, according to those reports.
A 17-year-old Westmoreland boy was on Monday charged with rape and grievous sexual assault following an incident at his home in Church Lincoln, Grange Hill.\tThe teen was arrested and placed before an identification parade where he was positively...
Freedmen’s Town is a nationally registered historical site. The site was originally a community located in the fourth ward of Houston, Texas that began in 1865 as the destination for former enslaved people from surrounding plantations in Texas and Louisiana after the Civil War.
Freedmen’s Town is located southwest of downtown. After emancipation was proclaimed in Texas on June 19, 1865, former slaves began migrating to Austin, Dallas, Galveston, and other cities but the largest migration was to Houston. Many of these newcomers traveled along San Felipe Road into the city from Brazos River Plantations south and southwest of Houston. Once there they paved many of the streets in brick. These new residents established a community where they were able to live mostly without the daily onslaught of racism and discrimination.
Freedmen’s Town quickly developed as a cultural center with the establishment of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church (1866) followed by other churches and social and cultural institutions, The community and the larger fourth ward black community that grew around it, was prosperous well into the early 20th Century. By 1930, Fourth Ward held approximately one third of Houston’s 36,000 African Americans and was famous for its many businesses that included restaurants and jazz night clubs which attracted even white Houstonians to the area.
Despite this apparent social and economic prosperity, black Houstonians and especially Freedmen’s Town residents were limited by a segregated environment which denied access to most city services and formal rules and informal practices that prevented them from gaining better jobs. In 1929, the Houston City Planning Commission proposed a permanent geographical and racial segregation of Houston that limited black residence to the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Wards. While the Houston City Council refused to adopt such a plan (partly because it was illegal), blacks in Freedman’s Town and the Fourth Ward faced restrictive covenants and redlining practices that prevented
ATLANTA, GA — Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Saturday that Police Chief Erika Shields has resigned as calls for her firing built following a police-involved shooting at a fast-food restaurant.
“I do not believe this was a justified use of deadly force and have called for the immediate termination of the officer,” the mayor said, at a news conference just after 5 p.m.
“What has become abundantly clear over the couple of weeks in Atlanta is that while we have a police force full of men and women who work alongside our communities with honor, respect and dignity, there has been a disconnect with what our expectations are and should be as it relates to interactions with our officers and the communities they are entrusted to protect,” Bottoms said Saturday.
Because of her desire that Atlanta be a model of what meaningful reform should look like across this country, Chief Shields has offered to immediately step aside as police chief so that the city may move forward with urgency in rebuilding the trust so desperately needed throughout our communities,” Bottoms said.
In a statement, the Georgia NAACP said the Atlanta Police Department has “a history of antagonizing our Black communities,” and the city “must address this not only with their words but also with their actions and budgetary decisions.”
The Atlanta Police Department continues to terrorize protestors and murder unarmed Black bodies,” the statement reads.
At least 150,000 Americans have died of the coronavirus since the U.S. began keeping count, and the number continues to rise. By Ja'han Jones, Huff Post At least 150,000 people in the United States have now died of the coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University. The grim milestone comes months after President Donald Trump claimed Democrats […]
There have been reports that citizens of Nigeria claim the government has been using military force against innocent civilians.
Jamie Foxx's sister Deondra Dixon has died. Just 36 years old, the younger sibling of the Oscar Award-winning entertainer had down syndrome and was a beloved figure in her brother's […]
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Joe Biden was expected to win the 2020 election and make Kamala Harris the first Black woman vice president-elect after votes in Georgia and Pennsylvania all but determined Trump's path to re-election was impossible.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican who has steadfastly refused to require residents to wear... View Article
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The SARS unit has been accused of physical abuse and torture, as nationwide calls for police reform increase.
