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Rev. James Lawson Jr., an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and one of the original Freedom Riders, died on Sunday, June 10, at the age of 95. His family announced his passing on Monday — and immediately an outpouring of admiration and reverence for the hero followed. The National Civil Rights Museum issued a […]
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Benjamin L. Hooks , in full Benjamin Lawson Hooks (born Jan. 31, 1925, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.—died April 15, 2010, Memphis), American jurist, minister, and government official who was executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1977 to 1993.
Hooks attended Le Moyne College in Memphis (1941–43) and Howard University, Washington, D.C. (1943–44; B.A., 1944), served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and later studied law at De Paul University in Chicago (J.D., 1948); no law school in Tennessee was admitting blacks at that time. From 1949 until 1965 he practiced law in Memphis. He participated in restaurant sit-ins of the late 1950s and early ’60s and joined the Board of Directors of Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, among many other civil-rights and public-service organizations. Ordained a Baptist minister in the mid-1950s, he preached regularly at churches in both Memphis and Detroit, and he won a wide following for his eloquence as a public speaker.
Assistant public defender of Shelby County (Memphis) from 1961, he was appointed judge of Shelby County Criminal Court in 1965, the first African American to hold that position. He was elected for a full eight-year term in 1966, but he resigned in 1968. In July 1972 Hooks was appointed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and became the first black FCC commissioner. He resigned to become executive director of the NAACP on Aug. 1, 1977, succeeding Roy Wilkins. Hooks also served as the chairman of the board of directors of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and helped to found the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis in 1996. Hooks stressed the need for affirmative action and pressed for increased minority voter registration. He deplored underrepresentation of minorities in media ownership. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
The National Civil Rights Museum officially opens at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., the site of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
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BY STAFF REPORTER THE MDC Alliance has been thrown into mourning following the untimely death of Ambuya Chamisa, mother to party president Nelson Chamisa. Party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere announced the death this evening. “It is with great sadness that the MDC Alliance announces the passing of Ambuya Chamisa, the mother of MDC Alliance president, Nelson Chamisa. Ambuya Chamisa passed suddenly in the late afternoon of July 6 at her home in Gutu,” Mahere said in a statement. She said funeral arrangements would be announced in due course.
It is with great sadness that we, the family and loved ones, announce the passing of our beloved Seymour Alphonso Leonard on Nov. 27 in Inkster, Michigan.
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With the pandemic winding down and travel picking up, Memphis makes for a a great tourist attraction for those wanting to hit the road.
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More than 250 news professionals representing nearly 150 media outlets attended the annual Ethnic Media Conference, Expo, and Awards held at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Sacramento on Aug. 27 and 28. Hosted by Ethnic Media Services (EMS) and California Black Media (CBM), the awards ceremony recognized journalists for their outstanding reporting in different topic areas, including health, politics and culture.
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PRIME Minister Andrew Holness was among Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) officials who paid tribute to former mayor of May Pen Milton Brown, who died peacefully yesterday.
A highly respected politician at the local government level, Brown had been councillor for the Mineral Heights Division since 1998, and mayor of May Pen between 2003 and 2012.
Recently elected Member of Parliament for Clarendon South Eastern, which also includes Mineral Heights, Pearnel Charles Jr, said he felt “great sadness” in confirming Brown's death.
We take comfort in knowing Councillor Brown lived a full life and made impacting contributions to his family, friends, South East Clarendon, and the Jamaica Labour Party,” he said.
“We are grateful for the time he gave us and for all the sweat and effort he put into the development of South East Clarendon, the entire parish, the Jamaica Labour Party, and the people of Jamaica.
Progressive Democratic Patriots' deputy political leader Farley Augustine has described Chief Secretary Ancil Dennis’ explanation about the discrepancies identified in an Auditor General’s report as \"pure rubbish.\"
The Auditor General's report, which covered the period October 2019 to September 2020, expressed concerns about the Tobago House of Assembly's handling of covid19 relief, particularly food card/vouchers and rental assistance programmes.
Dennis responded to the report in a lengthy statement on Monday night.
He said while there are areas for improvement, “I saw nothing in this report which suggests illegal or corrupt activity.
“All we have set out to do is to bring relief to all affected persons in Tobago in a timely manner.”
But Dennis admitted there is need for training of the THA’s management and staff to prevent a repeat of procedural and accounting errors “that have surfaced in this report and previous ones.”
In a statement posted on his Facebook page on Monday, Augustine, who has called for the discrepancies to be thoroughly investigated, said, “That entire press release of response is pure rubbish and excuses for not adhering to the financial regulations and the mandates of the auditor general’s office. It is always an excuse for them.”
He added: “Report after report from the auditor general’s office is damning and all we get are excuses.”
Augustine, who is the representative for Speyside/Parlatuvier/L’Anse Fourmi, complained that the PDP’s assemblymen were never offered emergency social assistance cards to help the vulnerable in their respective electoral districts.
“Were the PDP assemblymen offered any of these social emergency cards? The answer is no.
“Therefore, the act of decentralising the operation is just rubbish. They decentralised it to include party hacks but not all 12 assemblymen.”
Augustine also scoffed at Dennis’ claims that all of the THA’s records regarding the various covid19 relief initiatives were accounted for.
“He claimed that they have all of these records, but why they were not presented for audit?”
He said Dennis must understand that the THA cannot spend money as it wants without process and oversight.
“There are regulations guiding these things. It is not for politicians to decide when and how to obey them.”
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[allAfrica] Harare -- German missionary Father Hans Joachim Lohre, who was abducted in Bamako, Mali, last year, was set free by his captors, Reuters reports.
