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Jodie Turner-Smith stunned in a brilliant creation by Robert Wun at the 2024 MTV EMA Awards. There are many creations that Turner-Smith has worn in recent months, but this one […]
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Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
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In early October, a memorial marker was installed at the end of Boston’s Long Wharf to acknowledge Boston’s history of slavery and to honor the Africans who died in and those who survived the transatlantic voyage known as the Middle Passage.
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Carolina Classic Fair to include disaster relief collections
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You’re invited to celebrate Running Rebels Community Organization’s 40 years of service to Milwaukee young people at the virtual EPIC Evening presented by BMO Harris Bank on October 27th at 6:00 pm. Registration information will be emailed out in early October. The FREE event will be a joyful celebration to mark four decades of providing guidance, […]
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Arthur Allen Fletcher is known to many as the father of affirmative action. In the following account historian David Hamilton Golland describes the career of Fletcher, a Republican civil rights activist during the last half of the 20th Century.
Arthur Allen Fletcher, known to many as the father of affirmative action, was born on December 22, 1924, in Phoenix, Arizona. Little is known of Fletcher’s birth father, but his mother, Edna, soon married Buffalo Soldier Andrew Fletcher, who would eventually adopt Arthur. The family moved from one Army base to another for much of Arthur’s childhood before finally settling in Junction City, Kansas.
Fletcher graduated from Junction City High School in 1943, after leading a protest against the school yearbook which placed the photos of black students in a separate section in the back of the publication. Fletcher in his senior year organized a boycott of the segregated yearbook and the following year the practice was permanently dropped.
While at Junction City High Fletcher met Mary Harden, a daughter of one of the local black communitys wealthiest families. Hardens grandparents had owned much of the land that eventually became Fort Riley. They married in May 1943 just as he graduated. Within a year their daughter Phyllis was born, followed by Sylvia (1945), Arthur, Jr. (1947), Paul (1948), and Philip (1949).
Fletcher joined the U.S. Army immediately upon graduation from high school and in the Spring of 1944 was sent to England, where he performed in one of many Army bands and played intramural football. In the fall of 1944 he was a military police officer on the “Red Ball Express” supply line in France. The following spring Fletcher was wounded while serving in Germany in General George Patton’s Third Army. He recovered and was discharged later that year.
Returning to Kansas after the war, Fletcher enrolled in Washburn University in Topeka on the G.I. Bill. While at Washburn he was a doorman at the state legislature and a waiter at the Jayhawk Hotel, a
Michael B. Jordan is heating up screens across the globe now that Without Remorse is streaming on Amazon and theGrio... View Article
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Jodie Turner-Smith also stars in the action thriller.
Plus, more of her incredible style over the years.
JODIE TURNER-Smith, 34, has been pictured in the role of Queen Anne Boleyn, a new...
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By Glenn Ellis Back in February, government officials expressed disbelief, as they announced that as many as 69,000 people might die from the impending COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, few of us had been paying attention to how deadly the flu season is on any given year. When we hear that number, most of us […]
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has never been married and says she sacrificed finding a soulmate to have a successful career.
There’s no accusation that Triece mistreated or otherwise engaged in inappropriate behavior that could put kids in danger. Despite volunteering at her children's school for five years, Triece has been told she is no longer welcome.
At the urging of Gen. Sisi, who wields more influence over the country than the interim government, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets on July 26 to show support for the military and to demand that the country confront terrorism. The next day, members of the Muslim Brotherhood staged their own demonstration—a sit-in—in Cairo in support of Morsi, and police opened fire, killing more than 80 people and wounding several hundred. Despite the escalating violence, the Islamists continued the sit-ins and set up protest camps. On August 14 riot police raided the camps. They opened fire and used armored bulldozers, tear gas, snipers, and helicopters to clear the camps. Protesters threw rocks and burned tires in response. More than 500 people were killed, and the government declared a state of emergency. Mohamed ElBaradei resigned as vice president in protest of the militarys action. President Barack Obama canceled joint military exercises between Egypt and the U.S. that were scheduled for September in response to the militarys repressive and heavy-handed tactics. “While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual while civilians are being killed in the streets,” Obama said.
The crackdown and protests dragged on for several days, as both the military and Morsis supporters vowed to continue their fight. Casualties mounted with more than 1,000 fatalities, most of whom were Morsi supporters. On Aug. 18, 36 Islamic militants in police custody were killed while being transported to prison on the outskirts of Cairo, and on Aug. 19 militants killed 24 police officers in the northern Sinai region. Foreign governments urged the military to use restraint, a plea largely ignored. While foreign officials deplored the heavy-handed tactics of the military, they were careful not to imply support for the protesters, recognizing that the interim government was the only hope for stability. On Aug. 19, police arrested Mohamed Badie, the Muslim Brotherhood’s
AUTUMN IN AMERICA: NOV 3. Are Americans better off today than they were four years ago? No! Four years ago, we had a White House occupant Barack Obama, a Democrat, who understood the clout, dignity, and symbolic power of the office. Today, we have Donald Trump, an autocrat, dismissive of the rule of law, a bully unable to manage the […]
John Thompson was in his early 20s when he was arrested and eventually convicted in the death of Ray Liuzza in 1984 Louisiana. He found himself in prison on the word of “reliable witnesses” and a fabricated documented criminal history. Also sealing his fate was the word of someone else held responsible for Liuzza’s death []
By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, M.S.J An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife in Tom Clancy’s “Without Remorse,” the explosive origin story of action hero John Clark — one of the most popular characters in the best-selling author’s Jack Ryan’s universe. When a squad of Russian […]
There are different interpretations of the phrase 'It's not what you know, but who you know,' but in the case of Janicza Bravo landing in the director's chair for the […]
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In 1971 Ruffin Bridgeforth, Darius Gray, and Eugene Orr, all African American Mormons, met at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to create a strategy for receiving greater support for the black members of the Latter Day Saints. In that year, there were only three or four hundred Latter-day Saints of African descent throughout the world, although some of them traced their family lineage to the earliest black LDS members in the 1830s and 1840s.
In 1971 the church continued its ban of all blacks from its priesthood and significant temple rites that was handed down in 1852, regardless of the length of their family membership as Mormons. Ultimately, Darius Gray approached Church President Joseph Fielding Smith with their concerns. President Smith assigned three junior apostles, Elders Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson, and Boyd K. Packer, to meet with the three black Mormons. Their meetings began on the morning of June 8, 1971, a date which would take on greater significance in 1978, when the priesthood restriction was abandoned. From June until October, meetings were scheduled twice a month. In early October, an unscheduled meeting was called. Gordon B. Hinckley told Bridgeforth, Gray, and Orr that he and his associates were establishing a support organization for black members of the LDS Church and wished to have Ruffin Bridgeforth serve as president. Bridgeforth asked both Gene Orr and Darius Gray to serve as his counselors, and the three selected a name for the group: Genesis. On October 19, the Genesis Group of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized. Mary Lucile Bankhead, a descendant of vanguard pioneer and “colored servant” Green Flake, was named president of the Relief Society, the women’s auxiliary.
The Genesis Group conducted activities to promote unity and understanding between black and white Mormons. Group members performed plays, put on soul food dinners, and brought many inactive black Mormons and other Mormons of color back to the church. Their summer picnics also
Ahead of her highly anticipated role as one of history's biggest royals, Jodie Turner-Smith has given her take on Meghan... View Article
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Fresh off his 1st place finish in the 1-mile race in the Coral Reef Swim, relay swimmer Daryan Maynard came out first again in the field of Olympic-distance triathletes and relay teams. He finished the 1.4K swim in 17:55.
French troops have killed a senior leader of al Qaeda's North Africa wing during an operation in northeastern Mali, Defence Minister Florence Parly announced Friday hailing "a major success in the fight against terrorism".
BY SAM BOJARSKI AND ONZ CHÉRY BROOKLYN — It was late September when a Haitian mother walked into a Flatbush urgent care center seeking medical attention for her 10-day-old infant, born in Texas. The baby’s belly button had grown infected, so Dr. Lynchy Lezeau, a physician at the center, referred the mother to nearby Kings County Hospital. Both […]
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… explained that the legacy of Black Americans lives in the United States … of police brutality towards the African American community in his piece — specifically …
The latest casting news for Jodie Turner-Smith has angered a certain subset on Twitter who believe the actor shouldn’t be cast in the role because of her
Launching on August 3, Swiftwicks Pursuit Ultralights is made using the lightest weight, fine-gauge Merino Wool, and promises to provide the wearer with maximum moisture and sweat management.
