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Black homeowners in central Brooklyn are taking action against the city after losing their homes at an alarming rate as... View Article
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\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.
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein and his former studio’s board have reached a nearly $19 million settlement with dozens of his sexual misconduct accusers, New York state’s attorney general and lawyers in a class-action lawsuit said Tuesday. The agreement was announced by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Chicago attorney Elizabeth A. Fegan. []
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June Jordan was one of the most widely-published and highly-acclaimed African American writers of her generation, poet, playwright and essayist. Jordan was also known for her commitment to human rights and progressive political agenda. Jordan was the only child of Jamaican immigrant parents, Granville Ivanhoe and Mildred Maud Jordan, in Harlem, New York. Her father […]
Ms Grace Nabwami, a Makerere University Business School (MUBS) graduate who was hit by a stray bullet fired by a police officer in Kabalagala, a Kampala suburb seven years ago, has been awarded Shs75million as compensation for the injuries she sustained.
Kampala High Court Judge Musa Ssekaana ruled that it is the duty of a reasonable police officer not to harm innocent civilians in the course of executing their duties of enforcing law and order.
The court order results from a 2015 case in which Ms Nabwami sued the Attorney General seeking compensation for damages, special damages resulting from negligence of the police officer who shot at her.
It is her evidence that at around 12am on the fateful day, a police officer attached to Kabalagala Police Station, who was pursuing a suspect armed with a knife, fired a bullet that strayed to the plaintiff's (Nabwami) house hitting her in the right neck area.
Court records show that Ms Nabwami never got any help from the government in terms of treatment or compensation for what befell her, yet the officer in charge of Kabalagala Police Station acknowledged his officer's actions.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge on Thursday indefinitely extended an injunction preventing the Virginia governor from removing a historic statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from a famed avenue in the former capital of the Confederacy.
Earlier this month, Cavedo had issued a 10-day injunction barring Northam from removing the bronze equestrian statue of the Confederate hero from Monument Avenue.
The 12-ton (11-metric-ton) Lee statue is about 21 feet (6.4 meters) tall and sits on a pedestal nearly twice that high in the grassy center of a large traffic circle on Monument Avenue, a prestigious residential thoroughfare in Richmond.
The Lee statue is one of five Confederate monuments along Monument Avenue, part of which has been designated a National Historic Landmark district.
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced plans to seek the removal of the other Confederate monuments on the avenue, including statues of Confederate Gens.
The decision by the High Court against the determinations of the Office of the Ombudsman are only meant to stop the Ombudsman from overreaching her mandate and not necessarily to quash them, it has been learnt. The Office of the Ombudsman, especially under Martha Chizuma who is now Anti-Corruption Bureau Director General, has made some …
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By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Among transgender-rights activists, there's a powerful mix of hope and fear heading toward the Nov. 3 election. They're yearning for President Donald Trump's defeat but dreading the possibility that his administration might win four more years and continue targeting them with hostile policies. 'The stakes are extremely high,' said Shannon Minter, a transgender attorney with the National Center for Lesbian Rights. 'It seems clear that President Trump intends to use the full power of the presidency and the executive branch to inflict maximum damage on the transgender community.' Among the administration's moves that have […]
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This country has a long history of environmental racism—and it’s been funded by our nation’s big banks. Many of the most pressing climate justice issues for communities of color today […]
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St. Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans was the first black church in Louisiana and the first black Catholic church in the United States. In the 1830s a group of free African-American New Orleanians began organizing to create a Catholic church in Tremé, a historically black and multicultural New Orleans neighborhood. With the blessing of Antoine Blanc (1792-1860), the first Archbishop of New Orleans, the parish was founded in 1841 and the first ceremony was held there on October 9, 1842.
A group of white Catholics, angered that a Catholic church aimed at black New Orleanians was to be built, began a campaign to purchase pews in an attempt to outnumber the black parishioners. This effort was unsuccessful, as free blacks still greatly outnumbered whites. Additionally, reputedly a first in American history, black members pooled resources to purchase pews for slaves.
St. Augustine Church has remained a central figure in the cultural and spiritual community of black New Orleans since its founding. In tandem with the Satchmo Festival in honor of Louisiana native Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), the church hosts Jazz Mass each year. Jazz Mass is a festival that draws from the rich musical tradition and wealth of jazz talent in New Orleans. Sidney Bechet, the great saxophonist and clarinetist, was baptized at St. Augustine and remained a parishioner. In addition to Bechet, Homer Plessy, the Creole civil rights activist who purposely violated Louisiana’s Separate Car Act and became the plaintiff in Plessy v. Ferguson, and civil rights lawyer A.P. Tureaud were both members.
In 2005 hurricane Katrina devastated the Archdiocese of New Orleans financially. Although St. Augustine was relatively undamaged, the parish’s numbers had been declining for some time. In order to save costs, in March 2006 Archbishop Alfred Hughes decided to close St. Augustine and merge its parish with St. Peter Claver in a neighboring African American area. This decision was met with resistance from St. Augustine’s parishioners and lay leaders. A
