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[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nearly a decade has passed since Safiya Noble googled "Black girls" and found the search results were mostly pornographic - a discovery that drove her to explore how algorithms can perpetuate discrimination and inequality.
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.
Bissau — After a dramatic increase in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Bissau city, the pandemic prevention and response activities in the country must be intensified.
There has been an alarming increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Guinea Bissau, most of which have been registered in Bissau city.
\"In a small country like Guinea Bissau with a population of an estimated 1.9 million, and 250,000 people in Bissau city – the epicentre of COVID-19 in the country – this dramatic increase shows that the virus continues to spread in communities and faster than we thought,\" explains Monica Negrete, MSF Head of Mission in the country.
\"Although measures have been put in place, such as isolation zones in designated health facilities and basic case management, the response is currently insufficient and often poorly coordinated at all levels in Bissau city and other regions,\" said Negrete.
Health workers in the country who are on the frontline responding to COVID-19 must be protected, in particular through the provision of the necessary personal protective equipment and other infection, prevention and control measures.
By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The new leader of a suburban Denver police department whose officers put Elijah McClain in a chokehold before the young Black man died last year and handcuffed Black girls over the weekend said Wednesday that she wants to empower police to veer away from strict training protocols and think about whether they are acting on their biases. Vanessa Wilson, who was named chief of the Aurora Police Department this week after serving as its interim leader, told The Associated Press that she is committed to rebuilding the public's trust. She takes the […]
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Rising star Aria Brooks is the newest member of Nickelodeon’s “All That” reboot cast, but don’t box her in as only an actress.
The new iteration of the series has welcomed back some familiar original faces including Kel Mitchell, Lori Beth Denberg, and Josh Server, who were all members of the original 1994 cast, and who’ve all provided valuable advice to the young cast, according to Aria.
In her short time as a cast member of the teen sketch comedy series, Aria and her “All That” castmates have become “really, really close on-set” and are doing what they can to continue to keep that bond strong throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
As her career continues to grow, Aria looks to fellow young multi-talented Black stars as inspiration and examples of what she can one day achieve.
Much like the young stars she looks up to, Brooks is not limiting herself to developing just one talent and enjoys creating an array of content to share on her YouTube channel and Instagram page.
According to a New York Times study, Black girls face more inequities in being disciplined at school than their white peers.
Powered by the company’s Black Positively Golden movement, McDonald’s is also furthering its investment in the next generation of women leaders in partnership with ESSENCE Girls United.
McDonald’s USA today announced the launch of its $500,000 Black Positively Golden® Scholarship Fund to help students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue their education this fall, despite impacts of COVID-19.
That’s why TMCF is excited to further our commitment with McDonald’s to help keep more Black students in college.”
Commemorating a 20-year partnership with the ESSENCE Festival of Culture: Unstoppable Virtual Experience, McDonald’s is also embarking on a collaboration with the ESSENCE Girls United HBCU initiative, powered by Black Positively Golden.
About Black Positively Golden
Launched in 2019, McDonald’s Black Positively Golden movement is designed to uplift communities and shine a brilliant light on Black excellence through empowerment, education and entrepreneurship.
'Bear Our Pain': The Plea For More Black Mental Health Workers
Two decades of life experience made a mental-health activist of Kai Koerber.
The need for mental health support is more evident than ever, especially among Black Americans, say people who study and experience the burden of racism.
For many Black patients, access to mental health treatment often comes in places of last resort: Jails, schools, emergency rooms.
The scarcity of Black mental health professionals in the U.S. is now an acute problem, says Dr. Altha Stewart, a Memphis psychiatrist who became the first Black president of the American Psychiatric Association two years ago.
In recent years, Black celebrities in sports and entertainment — like former NBA star Ron Artest, radio personality Charlamagne Tha God and actress Taraji P. Henson — started openly advocating for the importance of mental health screening and support.
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The actress covers Teen Vogue, makes major announcement.
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has said under the new guidelines it recently released to ease the lockdown, worship centres will only be permitted to operate for a maximum of one hour each time they meet.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, had on Monday announced the relaxation of the ban placed on worship centres which was part of measures to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Other guidelines
Mr Aliyu said church or mosque facilities must be structured to ensure observation of physical distancing by members.
Other guidelines include:
\"All places of worship must sign up to full compliance with all aspects of non-pharmaceutical interventions required to protect the public from COVID-19 including but not limited to ensuring the supply of running water and soap, alcohol sanitisers at entry and exit points in all high contact locations including bathrooms.
\"Responsibility for enforcement will be with the leadership, church or mosque committees and supported by local authorities including state governments.
The framework released today can serve as a guide for a cautious, phased-in approach to reopening the economy, driven by clear public health criteria and safety guidelines that will keep our residents and workers healthy, and the commonwealth moving in the right direction.
It means continuing to meet the needs of our families, seniors, front-line workers and vulnerable people, because reopening the economy does not erase the hurt that continues to be felt by so many in our city who have been impacted by this crisis.
It means working collectively, for however long it may take, to recover the health and strength of our city and its people.
Since the beginning, we have worked to make this a broad and inclusive conversation with a focus on equity, understanding the disproportionate health and economic impacts this pandemic has had on some of our residents.
We will continue to work in collaboration with the state as this plan unfolds, and in Boston, we will always make decisions that are based on data and the needs of our diverse residents and workers.
For women across the country, Harris was a great selection, and for young women and girls, especially Black girls, Harris represents hope of a future that will accept and value women for their abilities to lead communities, companies, nations, or the world.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Coronavirus cases are climbing rapidly among young adults in a number of states where bars, stores and restaurants have reopened — a disturbing generational shift that not only puts them in greater peril than many realize but poses an even bigger danger to older people who cross their paths.
There and in states like Florida, Texas and Arizona, young people have started going out again, many without masks, in what health experts see as irresponsible behavior.
In Florida, young people ages 15 to 34 now make up 31% of all cases, up from 25% in early June.
But figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that almost as soon as states began reopening, the picture flipped, with people 18 to 49 years old quickly becoming the age bracket most likely to be diagnosed with new cases.
An Orlando bar popular with University of Central Florida students had its liquor license suspended after more than 40 people who went there upon its reopening tested positive.
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Kenya has more than 46,000 street children and families, a national census conducted in 2018 shows.
The project was led by the Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund (SFBTF), which was launched on March 11, 2003 to address the concerns of homeless, destitute and vulnerable people in urban areas.
\"The information that we now have will go a long way in helping us to come up with evidence-based decisions on how best to deal with the challenges that street families face,\" Mr Chelugui said.
\"In light of all these challenges, we look forward to the government and stakeholders utilising the findings in the census to come up with strategies for helping the street families,\" KNBS manager Robert Buluma said.
\"The board is now working on policy formation that will inform the creation of an Act of Parliament to address street families' rehabilitation,\" SFBTF chairperson Chebii Kilimo said.
Self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife have fled South Africa for Malawi, in contravention of their bail conditions.
People are upset and outraged, and folks are still protesting, and some folks take advantage of the protest,” stated Mel Reeves, editor of the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.
Two editors from Black Press of America newspapers on the frontlines of the uprising in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by four police officers, joined a National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) livestream broadcast on Saturday, May 30, to discuss up-to-the-minute breaking news from the Twin Cities.
Al McFarlane, the editor of Insight News and Mel Reeves, Editor of the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, spoke of the outrage over the death of Floyd and the future of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, who was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.
“The murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department on the evening of Memorial Day — this man was apprehended by police accused of forgery,” he voiced.
“People need to be cautious in their criticism, and the truth is it wasn’t they, the young people identified undercover police officers and people who were not Black initiated the burning and breaking of windows,” Reeves continued.
Now the the election is over, the work continues. For Byrd that culminates in years of organizing around the liberation of Black people who are on one track to be free in a country which routinely weaponizes against them.
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Early 20th Century Seattle civil rights activist Letitia Ann Dennie Graves was born in 1863 in Illinois to Martha Murphy and George Dennie. Very little is known about Gravess early life otherthan the fact that she and her husband, John Henry Graves, a Kansasstonemason, migrated to Seattle, Washingtonshortly after 1884. Letitia Graves first appears in the Seattle public record in 1906 when along withSusie Revels Cayton, Alice S. Presto, and Hester Ray, she organizes the DorcusCharity Club, one of the most successful of the black philanthropicorganizations established in pre-World War II Seattle. The Club began in response to an urgentrequest from the Seattle Childrens Home officials for assistance in placingabandoned twin black girls in a private home. Because the girls had rickets, no adoptive parents would care forthem. The Club assumed responsibilityfor the twins and placed them in a foster home. For the next three years Club members supported the children until theywere finally adopted.
Graves emerges again in 1913 when she becameinvolved in the protest that initiated the founding of the Seattle branch of the National Associationfor the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The Seattle NAACP wasestablished on October 23, 1913 with 22 members. The Seattlebranch was created only four years after the NAACP was formed in New York and thus became one of the first branches westof the Mississippi River. Letitia Graves was the first president of theSeattle NAACP branch and the vice president was Horace Cayton. Graves was a beautician who wasdetermined to protest the new policy of segregating black federal employees introducedby President Woodrow Wilson.
In 1915 Letitia Graves got involved in thecontroversy over the showing of the film TheBirth of a Nation. Graves ledthe NAACP campaign to stop the showing of the film. The branch, however, wasnot successful in its efforts and Graves was forced to write an open letter toblack Seattlesaying the film would be shown. Sixyears later, Graves and other NAACP
By Christal Jordan | November 12, 2020 | Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland are two of the many cult fairy tales that excluded children of color. During this age of reboots, actors David Oyelowo and [...]
I didn’t really know much about book genres or categories; I just knew I had this story about this Black queer kid growing up.
Looking back now, it made sense, because I have always shown love to Black children, especially Black queer kids and Black girls, who are thrust in a world to face so many forms and oppression at such a young age.
You know, the world doesn’t give Black people empathy and so I could have written about all the wrongs my dad did, but I’d rather write about how he and other family members were trying to do the best they could with the tools they were given.
“All Boys Aren’t Blue” would always be timely, but looking at Black queer children such as singer Lil Nas X and Zaya Wade, along with adults such as Billy Porter, who have been mistreated by the public for stepping outside of the hetero norm, this book is even more critical.
But I also want to say that this book is more than just pain, because white people love reading about Black trauma and often shun Black joy, so I wanted to show all the sides of my life because I had and have happiness and lean into mine as much as possible.
