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By AFRO Staff If you ask anyone over the age of 45 who are their top five singers, you can bet Luther Vandross is in the count! This year is the 25th Anniversary of Luther Vandross’s Christmas album “This Is Christmas” and featured the popular song “Every Year, Every Christmas.” Novelist, screenwriter, award-winning playwright, and […]
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The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
James Black was one of the first famous Black Astrologer in the early 70s! He lived in Chicago on the southside. He was born around 1910-1911!
He read for clients like Earth Wind & Fire, Aura Ajayi, a famous psychic and countless more all over the world!He was once featured in Ebony Magazine!
The MSR checked in with Smoke In the Pit in the heart of South Minneapolis to see how the eatery has fared during these uncertain times.
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Pioneer in surgery, Dr Daniel Hale Williams, founds Provident Hospital in Chicago, IL . At the same time, he founded Provident Hospital School of Nursing because Emma Reynolds, African America, had been denied admission to every school of nursing in Chicago
This remarkable exhibition features the inventively constructed paintings of family, friends and colleagues that portray the artist’s world and his place in it.
“I am proud to announce today the first senior White House communications team comprised entirely of women. These qualified, experienced communicators bring diverse perspectives to their work and a shared commitment to building this country back better,” Biden said in a statement.
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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said months ago he hoped the league could begin its coronavirus-delayed 2020-21 season Dec. 1, but that deadline came and went. Bettman then adjusted his target date to Jan. 1, but that now appears unlikely, too. Even with a shortened training camp and limited exhibition games, Jan. 1 might arrive too […]
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Jazz migration began. Joe Oliver left New Orleans and settled in Chicago and was joined by other stars.
James B. Parsons named chief judge of the Federal District Court in Chicago and became the first Black to hold that position.
The South African rapper, Boity finally released her very long-awaited EP titled '4436' on Friday, 4 December.
While Megan Fox has turned down numerous military films, she accepted 'Rogue' partly because of the attraction of coming to Africa.
By AAMER MADHANI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Increasingly detached from reality, President Donald Trump stood before a White House lectern and delivered a 46-minute diatribe against the election results that produced a win for Democrat Joe Biden, unspooling one misstatement after another to back his baseless claim that he really won. Trump called his address, released Wednesday only on social media and delivered in front of no audience, perhaps 'the most important speech' of his presidency. But it was largely a recycling of the same litany of misinformation and unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud that he […]
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Romeo Miller surprised his fans when he shared that he's dating someone, and revealed on Friday, Nov. 27, who that someone is: his new girlfriend Drew
Animals can reflect the temperament of a person or community. They are respected and revered. Often, people tattoo their images as symbols of strength, ferocity, freedom, prowess, bravery, and cleverness. Canada’s official animal is the [...]
During these last four years, I wondered why former President Barack Obama was relatively quiet as our nation morphed into a raging dumpster fire. I don’t expect politicians to be saviors, but I…
Katherine Dunham
ANTHROPOLOGIST, CHOREOGRAPHER & DANCER
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
June 22, 1912 -
Katherine earned a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her research in
Afro-American dance, particularly the Caribbean culture, led her to form a company of black dancers.
This company performed throughout the United States and Europe. One of her best works was the
Broadway musical Cabin in the Sky. In the late 1960s, she became the director of Southern Illinois
Universitys Performing Arts Training Center. Later, she established her own dance school and museum
in East St. Louis, Illinois.
The emergence of new outbreaks in several parts of South Africa has raised fears of a resurgence of the coronavirus, which could be encouraged by the expected gatherings during the festive season.
Authorities in the African country officially most affected by Covid-19 have been struggling to control the number of outbreaks since an increase was reported in November in the neighboring Eastern and Western (Southern) Cape provinces.
Nationally, the daily number of new cases has surpassed 3,000, a 50% jump from an average of 2,000 earlier in November.
More than half of this increase came from infections in the Eastern Cape and about 25% from the Western Cape Province.
\"The small outbreaks we are seeing right now (...) are temporary. Something must be done,\" Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said last week.
The rate of coronavirus transmission in South Africa had dropped sharply after peaking in July, with fewer than three cases detected daily per 100,000 people between late August and early November.
But the lull was short-lived, and authorities are now trying to combat a possible resurgence of the epidemic.
\"We are not in the second wave but in these two provinces (...) we are in full resurgence,\" commented the government adviser in charge of the fight against the coronavirus, Salim Abdool Karim.
If these new epidemic outbreaks are not contained, it is \"only a matter of time\" for the whole country to be affected, he warned.
In the Eastern Cape's largest city, Port Elizabeth, hospitals are already struggling with the rebound of the epidemic, although local authorities say the situation is under control.
'Chronic shortages'
Still reeling from the shock of the first wave, the health services requested assistance from the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in three public facilities.
\"The hospitals are really overwhelmed with a large number of patients, some even say more than in July,\" said an MSF official for the province, Dr. Colin Pfaff.
\"The facilities are understaffed,\" he added, criticizing \"chronic shortages\" and citing contamination among medical staff.
Private facilities are also affected.
\"Our hospitals in the Eastern Cape are incredibly full at the moment,\" Richard Friedland, head of South Africa's largest private medical network, Netcare, told AFP last week.
\"We still have the capacity to treat new cases\" with the installation of additional beds, he assured nevertheless.
While the provincial government assures that hospitals are neither \"full\" nor \"overwhelmed\", the South African Physicians Association accused the Department of Health this week of not providing adequate support to \"overwhelmed\" staff.
South Africa has recorded 792,000 cases, including more than 21,600 deaths, for a population of nearly 58 million people.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has ruled out a new lockdown at this stage.
The stringent infections which came into effect at the end of March have seriously affected the economy of the most industrialized country on the continent, causing 2.2 million people to lo
Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates on Sunday December 30th 1928 on a small farm near the town of McComb, Mississippi, USA, in rural Pike County, close to the Louisiana border, the only child of Ethel Wilson and Eugene Bates. He had 3 half-brothers and a half-sister.
He was adopted by his mothers cousin, Mrs. Gussie McDaniel, along with his cousins Willis, Lucille and Freddie, and adopted the name Ellas McDaniel. In the mid-1930s the family moved to the south side of Chicago. Soon after, he began to take violin lessons from Professor O.W. Frederick at the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church. He studied the violin for twelve years, composing 2 concertos for the instrument.
For Christmas in 1940, his sister Lucille bought him his first guitar, a cheap Harmony acoustic. It was at this time that he acquired the nickname Bo Diddley (...Bo Diddley is me; to tell ya the truth, I dont know what it (the name) really is...) from his fellow pupils at the Foster Vocational High School in Chicago.
The newly-named Bo Diddley had long been fascinated by the rhythms that he heard coming from the sanctified churches. A frustrated drummer, he tried to translate the sounds that he heard into his own style. Gradually he began to duplicate what he did with his violin bow by rapidly flicking his pick across his guitar strings. I play the guitar as if Im playing the drums....I play drum licks on the guitar. He continued to practice the guitar through his early teens.
Shortly before leaving school he formed his first group, a trio named The Hipsters, later known as The Langley Avenue Jive Cats, after the Chicago street where he lived. Upon graduation he pursued a variety of low paid occupations including truck driving, building site work and boxing, playing locally with his group to supplement his income. Around this time he married his first wife Louise Woolingham, but the marriage did not survive. A year later he married Ethel Tootsie Smith, a marriage that lasted just over a decade. In 1950 maracas player Jerome Green
Sculptor, Marion Perkins, died on 12/17/61. During the Depression of the thirties, Marion Perkins sold papers at a newsstand on Chicagos South Side. In his free moments at the stand he busied himself whittling on bars of soap. Peter Pollack, then director of the Community Art Center Division of the Illinois Art Project introduced Perkins to Si Gordon, a sculptor, who at the time was teaching at the South Side Community Art Center. Perkins work earned the recognition of the Rosenwald Foundation, and won the Art Institute of Chicago sculpture purchase prize of 1951.
Death of Ezzard Charles (53,), former heavyweight boxing champion, in Chicago.
America’s employers sharply scaled back their hiring last month as the viral pandemic accelerated across the country, adding 245,000 jobs,... View Article
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