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Andrew Cuomo's top aide apologized to Democratic lawmakers for underreporting and hiding thousands of coronavirus deaths that occurred in nursing homes
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.
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The Western Cape has seen a whopping 53.4% increase in new Covid-19 cases in the last week.
[Premium Times] Mr Adinuba added that with the confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state since the second wave began three weeks ago, the state had recorded an average of 40 cases per week.
The scholarship organization A Better Chance, founded in 1963, has provided many students of color with the chance to attend college-prep private schools and public schools across the country. Their mission clearly illustrates the goal of the organization: Our mission is to increase substantially the number of well-educated young people of color who are capable of assuming positions of responsibility and leadership in American society. Since its founding, A Better Chance has grown greatly, starting out with 55 students enrolled at nine schools to now more than 2,000 students enrolled at nearly 350 of the best private schools and public schools, as of the 2015-2016 school year.
Originally, the program involved identifying and selecting talented students of color and providing scholarships for them to attend private day and boarding schools. In the first year, even before President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his War on Poverty, 55 boys, all poor and mostly African-American, took part in an academically rigorous summer program. If they completed the program, the headmasters of 16 private schools agreed to accept them.
In the 1970s, the program began to send students to competitive public high schools in areas such as New Canaan and Westport, Connecticut; and Amherst, Massachusetts. Students lived in a house staffed by program tutors and administrators, and the local community provided support for their house. In addition, many colleges across the country, from Stanford in California to Colgate in New York state, have partnered with A Better Chance to express their interest in promoting diversity.
Today, the program also includes Latino and Asian students, and while many students have significant financial constraints, the program also accepts middle-class students and subsidizes tuition for these students based on need. The current program is focused on increasing diversity at educational institutions.
A Better Chance notes that its scholars are a racially diverse group (figures approximate):
As a result of
Facebook announced recently that 15 member publishers of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) will receive $1.288 million in grants through the Facebook Journalism Project’s relief fund for local news.
The social media giant said more than 200 news organizations would receive nearly $16 million in grants, which stem from $25 million in local news relief funding announced in March as part of Facebook’s $100 million global investment in the news.
The following are among the NNPA member publications included in the latest round of Facebook grants:
“The Facebook Grant will help The AFRO continue its 127-plus year history of uninterrupted publishing and enable us to continue our legacy as one of the nation’s most trusted voices in the African American community,” stated Frances Murphy Draper, Publisher and fourth-generation member of The AFRO newspaper.
“This Facebook grant, along with other programs supporting newspapers and small business, is desperately needed.
The money was issued after Facebook received more than 2,000 applications for the COVID-19 Local News Relief Grant Program from newsrooms across every state in America, all U.S territories, and Washington, D.C.
After the second wave of the the Saharan dust blanketed Jamaica over the weekend, sections of the island experienced heavy rain yesterday, the last day of June, which is part of the secondary rainy season.
The rain caused flooding in sections of the Corporate Area and Jamaica Observer photographer Naphtali Junior captured some of the scenes in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew.
PANIC has gripped the ruling Zanu PF party after two senior party officials on Sunday tested positive for COVID-19 with confirmed cases likely to go up as results of mass tests done recently continue to pour in. BY MOSES MATENGA Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu and the party’s director for Information Tafadzwa Mugwadi are now in isolation at home together with affected members of their respective families. The Zanu PF COVID-19 scare comes as Zimbabwe has recorded 291 deaths with 10 of them having been recorded on Saturday only. Ministry of Health and Child Care COVID-19 statistics yesterday showed that there are 10 718 cases of the virus that have been recorded throughout the country. However, the country has also recorded 8 880 recoveries. The party’s secretary for Health David Parirenyatwa yesterday told NewsDay in an interview that the party was now on high alert, adding that all measures were being put in place to curb the further spread of the deadly virus at their headquarters situated in Harare, which also houses a number of party bigwigs and staff. The Zanu PF headquarters also plays host to several party meetings. “What we did last time was to screen people and the results are coming in batches and all those who have been found to be positive have been asked to go into self-isolation and to come back after the prescribed date,” Parirenyatwa said without confirming the actual number of those affected. “When we started the COVID-19 tests as a party, the first batch had five cases but that was about two months ago. So we are now going symptomatically and we check on anyone who would have developed the symptoms. The first time, we did a mass test but now we are following the national policy and that is what we are doing,” he said. Parirenyatwa said the party was putting on a lot of measures to reduce the spread of the virus that has already claimed millions of lives internationally. “We are putting a lot of measures now; we screen people at the gate, we do temperature checks and all the normal routine. We are intensifying that and even in our lifts, we have put COVID-19 measures, and as people get into other offices we make sure prevention protocols are observed,” he said. Mugwadi yesterday took to microblogging site Twitter to announce that he was self-isolating at home and is adhering to all medical tips to suppress the virus. “I will adhere to every medical tip as I battle this pandemic with my family,” Mugwadi wrote on his social media account. Acting Zanu PF spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa was not immediately available to comment on the matter. However, workers at the ruling party headquarters who spoke on condition of anonymity said there were fears that quite a number of people at the party offices could have contracted COVID-19. Most of the officials work from the building and were feared to have been in close contact with the infected. To make matters worse, they were currently reportedly deployed across the country for the party district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections, whereas a
VAN NUYS — An attorney for former Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson vehemently denied Monday that his client was driving recklessly or was in any way responsible for a hit-and-run crash in Westlake Village that killed two young boys in September. “He wasn’t racing. He’s charged with one count of reckless driving. He wasn’t […]
Loretta E. Lynch serves as the U.S. attorney general. She was nominated to the post by President Barack Obama in September 2014 and, upon confirmation more than half a year later, became the first African-American woman to serve in the position.
Lynch replaced Eric Holder, the nations first African-American attorney general.
The attorney general represents the United States in legal matters and serves as a consultant, of sorts, to the president and heads of the executive departments of the government.
According to the office, the attorney general also appears before the U.S. Supreme Court in matters of exceptional gravity or importance, though such appearances are rare.
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The attorney general also oversees the network of U.S. Attorneys based throughout the United States and is the fourth in the line of presidential succession behind the secretaries of State, Treasury and Defense.
The confirmation process for Lynch took longer than almost any other in history. In fact, only two other presidential nominations dragged on longer than hers: President Ronald Reagans choice for attorney general, Edwin Meese, and President Woodrow Wilsons, according to The New York Times, which cited the Congressional Research Service.
Republicans blocked the confirmation because of Lynchs defense of Obamas executive actions on immigration, which would have protects millions of people living in the United States illegally from being deporting, among other things.
Some Democrats, however, believed Republicans were merely throwing up roadblocks to her nomination because she was chosen by a president from the opposite party.
Here is a timeline of Lynchs professional career:
Lynch graduated from Harvard College in 1981 with a bachelor of arts degree in English and American literature, and Harvard Law School in 1984 with a law degree.
On the right of people living in the United State illegally in the workforce: “I believe the right and the obligation to work is one that is
According to The New York Times, the use of tear gas can cause damage to people’s lungs and make them more susceptible to contracting a respiratory disease such as COVID-19.
Considering many of the protests have been led by Black people, there’s no telling how folks will be affected once the protests subside.
Black people already disproportionately suffer pre-conditions like asthma and heart disease, which can impact their ability to fight the coronavirus.
More Black and brown people also tend to be essential workers, so professionals were already working in high risks jobs, which could potentially spread the disease to their community.
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Early in the 1940s, young musicians such as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, steeped in the sounds of swing, began experimenting with melodic and harmonic dissonance as well as rhythmic alterations, such as beginning and ending improvised phrases in uncommon places in the measure.
Minton’s Playhouse, a jazz club in Harlem, New York, became the laboratory for these experimental musicians.
By 1941, Parker, Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Christian and Kenny Clarke were jamming there regularly.
During this period, two main musical paths were forged. One was a nostalgic movement that reexamined the hot jazz of New Orleans, known as Dixieland. The other was the new, forward looking, experimental music that departed from swing and the music that preceded it, known as bebop.
On August 1st, 1942, the American Federation of Musicians began a strike against all major recording companies because of a disagreement over royalty payments. No union musician could record. The effects of the strike included the shrouding of the developments of bebop in mystery. There are few documents that can provide evidence of what the early forms of the music sounded like.
American involvement in World War II, which began on December 11th, 1941, marked a decline in the importance of big bands in popular music.
Many musicians were sent to fight in the war and those who remained were restricted by high taxes on gasoline. By the time the ban on recording was lifted, big bands had practically been forgotten or had begun to be thought of as peripheral in relation to vocal stars such as Frank Sinatra.
Charlie Parker began rising in prominence in the early 1940s and played frequently with bands led by Jay McShann, Earl Hines, and Billy Eckstine.
In 1945, a young Miles Davis moved to New York and became intrigued with Parker and the emerging bebop style. He studied at Juilliard but had trouble earning respect among jazz musicians because of his unrefined sound. Soon he would work his way into Parkers quintet.
In 1945, the term ‘moldy
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April 4th, 1968 Martin Luther King was shot and killed.
On that night, Robert F Kennedy, New Yorks senator back then, wanted to deliver the news to the people of Indianapolis, IN
Local police warned him, they wont be able to provide protection if the people wold riot because he was in the heart of the African-American ghetto.
He wrote his notes on his ride and started the speech without any drafts or prewritten words before his assistance would give him their proposed draft.
This speech was delivered on a back of a Flatbed truck.
Although all major cities had riots, Indianapolis remained calm after RFKs speech
63 days after this speech, RFK got assassinated.
I reproduced the video, creating this version after adding the above mentioned details to it, so the speech can be put into context for everyone who watches it.
The reason I labeled it as The Greatest Speech Ever was simply the fact that it was never written, it wasnt read from a piece of paper, while there are numerous speeches that are life-changing and timeless, they were almost all written and thought of much more than this one. This one was only written in his heart.
The speech:
I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, its perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.
For those of you who are black - considering the evidence evidently is, there were white people who were responsible - you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.
We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or
Jupiter Hammon is considered one of the founders of the African-American literary tradition. Hammon was a poet who would be the first African-American to publish his work in the United States.
In 1760, Hammon published his first poem, “An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Crienes.” Throughout Hammons life, he published several poems and sermons.
Hammon never gained his own freedom but believed in the freedom of others. During the Revolutionary War, Hammon was a member of organizations such as the African Society of New York City. In 1786, Hammon even presented “Address to the Negroes of the State of New York.” In his address, Hammon said, “If we should ever get to Heaven we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.” Hammon’s address was printed several times by abolitionist groups such as the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
Abolitionist and writer William Wells Brown is best remembered for Narrative William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself which was published in 1947.
As a result of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Brown fled the United States and lived abroad. Brown continued write and speak on the abolitionist circuit. In 1853, he published his first novel, Clotel, or, The Presidents Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. Clotel, which followed the life of a mixed-raced slave working in the home of Thomas Jefferson, is considered the first novel published by an African-American.
Using poetic styles developed by John Keats and William Wordsworth, Countee Cullen wrote lyrical poetry and explored themes such as alienation, racial pride and self identity.
In 1925 the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing. Cullen was a young poet who had published his first collection of poetry entitled, Color. Considered a success, Alain Leroy Locke proclaimed that Cullen was A genius! and that his poetry collection transcends all of the limiting qualifications that might
(CMC): More than 383,000 voters in Suriname will go to the polls on Monday to elect a new government amid predictions that voter turnout could decline.
The paper reported that another setback for the polls is likely to be a “polluted’ voters list.
The National Democratic Party (NDP) of President Desi Bouterse, has dismissed an opinion polls published on Friday indicating that the ruling party would be defeated in the election.
In the 2015 poll, the party won 27 of the 51 seats and 80 per cent of the votes cast.
The research agency, Idos, in a statement Friday noted: “With a few days to go to the ballot box on May 25, a substantial part of the voters can still be counted among the floating voters.
Clemson University, known for its storied football program, has reported that 23 people in connection to the team have tested positive for coronavirus.
This isn’t the first we heard of the school’s connection to the deadly virus, just last week when the school conducted 169 tests it was revealed that two other football players, as well as a men’s basketball player, had the virus.
Just a few days ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci proposed that the only way to truly have a safe NFL season would be to it in a bubble away from everyone else.
“Unless players are essentially in a bubble — insulated from the community and they are tested nearly every day — it would be very hard to see how football is able to be played this fall,” Fauci said.
Dr. Fauci even recommends that if the bubble theory isn’t an option, then a 2020-21 NFL season shouldn’t even be considered.
Historian Frances Latimer argues that enslavement happened one law at a time, one person at a time. As the American colonies grew throughout the 17th Century, human bondage transformed from indentured servitude to a life of enslavement.
1612: Commercial tobacco is raised in Jamestown, Va.
1619: Twenty Africans are transported to Jamestown. They were imported to work as slaves in Great Britains American colonies.
1626: The Dutch West India Company brings eleven African-American men to the New Netherlands
1636: Desire, the first carrier in the United States to participate in human trade. The ship is built and first sails from Massachusetts. This marks the beginning of colonial North Americas participation in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
1640: John Punch becomes the first documented slave to receive servitude for life. An African servant, John Punch, is sentenced to life after running away. His white friends, who also ran away, received extended servitude.
1640: Residents of New Netherlands are prohibited from providing any assistance to fugitive slaves.
1641: The DAngolas become the first recorded marriage between people of African descent.
1641: Massachusetts becomes the first colony to legalize enslavement.
1643: A fugitive slave law is established in the New England Confederation. The Confederation includes Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven.
1650: Connecticut legalizes enslavement.
1652: Rhode Island creates laws restricting and then forbidding slavery.
1652: All black and Native American servants are mandated to take military training by Massachusetts law.
1654: Blacks are granted the right to be slaveholders in Virginia.
1657: Virginia passes a fugitive slave law.
1660: The Council of Foreign Plantations is ordered by Charles II, King of England, to convert slaves and indentured servants to Christianity.
1662: Virginia passes a law establishing hereditary slavery. The law states that children of African-American mothers shall be bond or free according to the condition of the mother.
1662:
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If you thought Memorial Day weekend marked the end of the coronavirus’ first wave of victims, the World Health Organization wants you to pump your breaks on the premature celebrations.
According to Newsweek, Monday, representatives from WHO revealed that even though countries all over Europe and North America have begun to reopen in the wake of widespread quarantines, many nations are still experiencing alarming upticks in the number of novel coronavirus cases.
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WHO’s Executive Director of Emergencies, Dr. Michael Ryan explained during the press conference that outbreak confirmed by health officials in South America, Africa and South Asia, actually rose sharply just in the last week alone.
Tuesday, it was confirmed that over 5.5 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed worldwide since the start of the global pandemic, resulting in at least 346,836 deaths.
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Though many annual events that involved large groups of people have postponed or cancelled their 2020 plans, President Donald Trump asked North Carolina to still hold the Republican National Convention scheduled there for August.
After the second wave of the the Saharan dust blanketed Jamaica over the weekend, sections of the island experienced heavy rain yesterday, the last day of June, which is part of the secondary rainy season.The rain caused flooding in sections of the Corporate Area and Jamaica Observer photographer Naphtali Junior captured some of the scenes in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew.
Invited for second speaking engagement at Rowan UniversityOne of Africa's prominent infectious diseases experts from Liberia, Dr. Dougbeh Chris Nyan of Shufflex Biomed, has postulated that many African countries including Liberia could be \"going through a stage of Herd Immunity at this point of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the continent.\"
Lecturing at Rowan University, Dr. Nyan said, \"there may be a huge number of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers within the highly youthful African populations that are transmitting the infection from person-to-person without visible clinical symptoms that require hospitalization, and this could confer some immunity in the population as a herd-protection.
\"One quick clarification I would like to make is that I am not proposing 'herd immunity' for Liberia; instead, I only postulate that this may be occurring in Liberia and parts of Africa in view of the current epidemiological trend and factors which include: the silent asymptomatic person-to-person transmission of SARA-CoV-2 within a highly youthful Liberian and African population vis-à-vis the low death rate in Africa as compared to other continents.
Meanwhile, at the end of the presentation, the Dean of the Science and Technology College, Dr. Edem Tetteh extended a second invitation to Dr. Nyan to lecture on the COVID-19 pandemic at the prominent Science-based US national university where he [Dr. Nyan] spoke on the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Liberia and other African countries.
During this COVID-19 Pandemic, Dr. Nyan has provided extensive pandemic response awareness to the population and expert advised on public health regulatory measures directly and via radio and television in African countries including Liberia.
KwaZulu-Natal has recorded more than 157 000 infections of COVID-19 and premier Sihle Zikalala has called on the province to embrace ‘the new normal’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy entered a recession in February as the coronavirus struck the nation, a group of economists declared Monday, ending the longest expansion on record.
The economists said that employment, income and spending peaked in February and then fell sharply afterward as the viral outbreak shut down businesses across the country, marking the start of the downturn after nearly 11 full years of economic growth.
In the previous recession, the committee did not declare that the economy was in recession until December 2008, a year after it had actually begun.
“The unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production, and its broad reach across the entire economy, warrants the designation of this episode as a recession, even if it turns out to be briefer than earlier contractions,” the NBER panel said.
In its updated global outlook, the World Bank projected that international economic activity will shrink by 5.2% this year, the deepest recession since a contraction in 1945-46 at the end of World War II.
