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The Junior League of St. Petersburg has been throwing a formal event for the mayors of St. Petersburg, Florida, since 2006, but the mayoral ball planned for 2022 has been canceled due to the man who is to be the city's first Black mayor declining his invite. According to Tampa Bay Times, Mayor-elect Ken Welch […]
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
A promise by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to start distribution of its vaccine in the United States by December 2020 could be hampered because no country has the capacity to store the vaccine, the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) has said....
I refer to a letter of Monday, May 25 by Kit Nascimento (`If David Granger’s character and good name is in question he has only himself to blame’) in the Stabroek News.
Historian David Granger would have been well aware of some of the famous clashes Nascimento has had with previous presidents.
Nascimento was an observer at the March 2 elections and witnessed first-hand how Mingo and Volda Lawrence put their signatures to a fraudulent document which Keith Lowenfield accepted and elevated and to which David Granger, Vincent Alexander and Joseph Harmon, all men of integrity, honesty and decency, shut their ears, eyes and mouths and I suppose, their conscience.
Having said that however, I wish to take issue with Nascimento on a small but in my view highly significant statement in his letter, to wit “Ms. Singh does not necessarily have to recognise the recount…“ In this regard, I respectfully refer Mr. Nascimento to the Aide Memoire signed by Granger, Jagdeo and the CARICOM Secretary General.
More for the benefit of readers than for Mr. Nascimento, here are the three operative points set out in that document:
• “That a total recount of all ballots from all electoral districts in Regions 1 to 10 would take place urgently (emphasis theirs) in accordance with the Constitution, the applicable law and the judgement of the court issued by Roxane George Chief Justice (ag.)
A Quena woman was shown in Europe as a circus
freak during the last century. Saartjie Baartmans
early life is unknown except that she came from a
clan of Quena people, better known in South Africa
by the derogatory term Hottentot, in the Eastern
Cape. Born in the late 18th century, probably in the
1780s, Baartman migrated to the Cape Flats,
where the records show she was living in a small
shack in 1810. In that year she met a ships doctor,
William Dunlop, who persuaded her to travel to
England with promises that she would make a
fortune by exhibiting her body to Europeans. It
appears that two settlers called Hendrik and Johan
Cezar, probably themselves descendants of a
mixed-race marriage between a Quena woman and
a Dutchman, were instrumental in setting up the
deal. Baartman sailed with Dunlop to England,
where she was put on display in a building in
Piccadilly, exciting crowds of working-class
Londoners who viewed her with a mixture of morbid
curiosity and malice. Like all Quena woman, she
had a protruding backside and large genital organs
-- billed by the shows promoters as resembling
the skin that hangs from a turkeys throat.
Contemporary descriptions of her shows at 225
Piccadilly, Bartholomew Fair and Haymarket in
London say Baartman was made to parade naked
along a stage two feet high, along which she was
led by her keeper and exhibited like a wild beast,
being obliged to walk, stand or sit as he ordered.
The exhibitions took place at a time when the anti-
slavery debate was raging in England and
Baartmans plight attracted the attention of a young
Jamaican, Robert Wedderburn, who founded the
African Association to campaign against racism in
England. Under pressure from this group, the
attorney general asked the government to put an
end to the circus, saying Baartman was not a free
participant. A London court, however, found that
Baartman had entered into a contract with Dunlop,
although historian Percival Kirby, who has
discovered records of the womans
An Indiana officer who shot and killed 21-year-old Dreasjon \"Sean\" Reed after a car chase earlier this year will not face criminal charges.
In 1960, she braved death threats and racial epithets to accompany her daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, desegregating the school.
Libya's warring sides agreed in UN-led talks on Wednesday a plan to hold elections within 18 months, as diplomatic efforts grow to end a decade of violence in the North African country.
Delegates from across Libya \"reached a preliminary roadmap for ending the transitional period and organizing free, fair, inclusive and credible presidential and parliamentary elections,\" interim UN envoy Stephanie Williams told journalists.
The talks in Tunisia aim to create a framework and a temporary government to prepare for elections as well as providing services in a country devastated by years of war, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Williams stressed the need to move quickly to \"national elections which must be transparent and based on full respect for freedom of expression and assembly.\"
The Tunisia dialogue comes alongside military negotiations inside Libya to fill in the details of a landmark October ceasefire deal.
Libya is dominated by an array of armed groups and two executives: the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord, the product of a 2015 UN-led process, and a legislature elected in 2014 and allied with eastern military strongman Khalifa Haftar.
The UN selected the 75 invitees to the political talks to represent existing institutions and the diversity of Libyan society, a move that has sparked criticism of the process and its credibility.
The talks took place as a joint military commission of senior pro-GNA and pro-Haftar commanders continued meetings in Sirte, the hometown of longtime dictator Muammar Gadhafi whose 2011 toppling sparked Libya's crumble into chaos.
Sirte is on the line dividing zones controlled by the two forces, after Haftar's year-long bid to seize the western city of Tripoli crumbled in June with a blistering GNA counter-attack.
The ceasefire deal and military talks since have triggered hopes of an accompanying political deal.
Wednesday's talks were overshadowed by the fatal shooting of a prominent lawyer and women's rights activist in the eastern city of Benghazi the previous day.
Hanan al-Barassi, a vocal critic of corruption, abuse of power, and violence against women, was killed in broad daylight by unidentified armed men.
\"Her tragic death illustrates the threats that are faced by Libyan women as they dare to speak out,\" Williams said.
Bemoaning a \"crisis of accountability\" across Libya, she called for justice for Barassi's killers but declined to comment on whether the lawyer's death was linked to the talks.
\"There will be obstructionists, there will be people who don’t want change,\" she said.
But, she added, most Libyans \"have an overwhelming desire to reclaim their sovereignty and restore the legitimacy of their institutions.\"
After George Floyd’s death, many athletes and sports leagues pushed back more forcefully against the president’s demand for standing during the national anthem, and he shifted away from the issue.
During a new interview, singer John Legend shared that he and wife Chrissy Teigen are grateful for the outpouring of... View Article
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On her Instagram account,daughter Ruby Bridgessaid, ‘Today our country lost a hero. Brave, progressive, a champion for change.’ Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activistRuby Bridges, who walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black student […]
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Commentary: A huge victory – and more work to do
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Black Women’s Health Imperative Launches Anti-Tobacco and Vaping Program at Seven HBCU Campuses with Support of the Robert Wood Johnson The Two Organizations Collaborate with an Innovative New Program, Aimed at Empowering Black Women Leaders to Lead the Fight Against Tobacco and Vaping Use Washington, DC, November 03, 2020 -(PR.com)- Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) […]
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By Lucius Gantt Calling out around the world, are you ready for a brand new beat? Fall is here and the time seems right for dancing in the street! President Donald Trump has been voted out of office. He lost the popular vote. He lost the states needed to win the Electoral College […]
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Thirty-two-year-old Andrew Simpson, a guest house manager of Bogue Heights Boulevard, Bogue, St James, has been charged for allegedly attacking a woman who refused his advances. Simpson was charged on Monday with assault at common law, discharge of...
Commentary: Biden’s jobs 1-10
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HONG KONG-Hong Kong native Tommy Fung has made a splash in the art world with his photographic, computer-manipulated pieces that address everyday situations, as well as serious social issues. He delivers a whimsical, surreal spin [...]
By Benjamin Jealous, president of People For the American Way and People For the American Way Foundation After four exhausting years of President Donald Trump and four excruciating days of vote counting, the election was called for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Saturday. Hallelujah! Those days of counting felt agonizingly slow to many of us, but the momentum was always on our side: Democratic voters—mostly Black voters—in and around Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta delivered the battleground state votes needed to deny Trump a second term. In Nevada and Arizona, Latino and Native American voters provided […]
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A suspected financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Felicien Kabuga, made his first appearance at a UN court in The Hague on Wednesday after decades on the run.
Felicien Kabuga's a suspected financier of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, which saw 800,000 people murdered, according to the UN.
Kabuga, now in his 80s, is accused of crimes against humanity including genocide.
UN prosecutors also accuse Kabuga of helping create a Hutu militia group and urging the killing of Tutsis through his media company.
He is also accused of helping to buy machetes in 1993 that were distributed to genocidal groups.
He denies the charges.
He is \"very tired,\" said his lawyer, Emmanuel Altit.
Kabuga, one of Rwanda's richest men was first indicted by the now-closed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) two decades ago.
On the run
But he was not arrested until this year in May, near Paris.
He was transferred from France to The Hague in October.
The initial hearing before a pre-trial judge took place at the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, which has taken on cases left over from the ICTR.
Kabuga spent years on the run using a succession of false passports, with investigators saying that he had been helped by a network of former Rwandan allies to evade justice.
His lawyers argue he should be tried in France but France's top court ruled he should be moved to UN custody.
Kabuga was initially to be transferred to the UN court's facility in Arusha, Tanzania, which took over the ICTR's duties when it formally closed in 2015.
But a judge ruled he should first be taken to The Hague for a medical examination, and it was not immediately known when or if Kabuga might be transferred to Arusha.
Lionel Wilson, lawyer, judge, and politician, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 4, 1915 to Jules and Louise Wilson. In 1918 the family moved to Oakland, California, where his parents believed a smaller and less-noticeable black community would afford them greater freedoms and less discrimination. Following his elementary schooling Wilson attended McClymonds High School in Oakland, a predominantly white institution. After graduating with honors in 1932 he took a position at a local newspaper.
In 1939 Wilson received a Baccalaureate degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkley. During and after his undergraduate education he worked as a porter, sugar-factory laborer, and dishwasher, while pursuing a career in athletics. Standing only five feet, five inches tall and weighing a diminutive 130 pounds, Wilson nonetheless quickly distinguished himself as a gifted tennis, basketball, and baseball player. His athletic prowess attracted talent scouts, and soon followed a short-lived semi-professional baseball career. He retired in 1943 however, as racially exclusionist policies in professional sports precluded his further advancement.
Disappointed, Wilson enlisted in the United States Army and served in a combat unit in Europe during the last two years of World War II. By the end of the war he was promoted to First Sergeant. Upon his return in 1946 Wilson was accepted at Hastings School of Law in San Francisco, where he received a law degree in 1949. Immediately following graduation he began working in civil law. Specializing in civil rights cases, he regularly offered pro bono work to low-income individuals.
Lionel Wilson first ran for the Berkeley City Council in 1953 and later in 1955, but was not elected on either occasion. In 1960, however, he became the first African American judge of Alameda County when he was appointed to the Oakland Municipal Court by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Sr. Four years later he was appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court by Brown. In
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden feels at home on Capitol Hill, but the place sure has changed since he left. The clubby atmosphere that Biden knew so well during his 36-year Senate career is gone, probably forever. Deal-makers are hard to find. And the election results haven't dealt him a strong hand to pursue his legislative agenda, with Democrats' poor performance in down-ballot races likely leaving them without control of Congress. The dynamic leaves Biden with little choice but to try to govern from the vanishing middle of a Washington that's been badly ruptured […]
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Douglas Dollarhide was the first African American mayor of the city of Compton, California, and a pioneer and role model for future black politicians across the state of California.
Dollarhide was born in March 1923 in Earlsboro, Oklahoma. He was the son of two former slaves, Thomas Dollarhide and Daisy Williams Dollarhide. In the early 1940s, the family moved from Earlsboro to San Jose, California, where Dollarhide enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served during World War II and after the conflict ended, settled in Los Angeles County with his new wife, Eliza, and daughter, Barbara.
Dollarhide attended the Metropolitan Business College, Long Beach City College, and La Salle University Law School, where he received a law degree. He was elected to Compton City Council in 1963, where he served as the first African American chairman of the council’s finance committee and represented the city at the League of California Cities. Following his three terms as city council member, Dollarhide, a Democrat, was elected as the first African American mayor of Compton in June 1969. He served one term until 1973 when he was defeated by thirty-seven-year-old Dorris Davis. During the time he served in office, the city became the first municipality in California to have a black majority; African Americans comprised 65 percent of the population by 1970.
During Dollarhide’s first few years as mayor, major changes took place in Compton. The city, like many urban areas in the nation at the time, underwent white flight—the exodus of middle-class white residents—and a corresponding influx of African Americans, many of whom had been displaced by the 1965 Watts riot (the Watts section of Los Angeles bordered Compton) and others who sought a suburban lifestyle. White flight contributed to Compton’s transformation from an overwhelmingly white city, which in the 1950s had been home to the family of future President George H. W. Bush, into a predominantly black city by the time of Dollarhide’s election. Whites who left Compton eventually ended
www.nytimes.com By Nick Corasaniti, Reid J. Epstein and Jim Rutenberg Election officials in dozens of states representing both political parties said that there was no evidence that fraud or other irregularities played a role in the outcome of the presidential race, amounting to a forceful rebuke of President Trump’s portrait of a fraudulent election. Over the last several […]
Governor Adlai Stevenson, called out National Guard to stop rioting in Cicero, Illinois. Mob of 3,500 tried to keep Black family from moving into all-white city.
