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Patrons of a Staten Island bar have become protestors now that Mac's Public House has been shut down. A massive crowd... View Article
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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.
“Looking back now, I don’t know if I should have done it because I am now burdened with this thing.
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Folks are having a field day laughing at Donald Trump’s star witness in one of his voter fraud cases. Melissa... View Article
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Journalist Jemele Hill isn’t ready to turn the other cheek when it comes to the more fervent supporters of President... View Article
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Legendary gospel artist Fred Hammond has contracted coronavirus. He disclosed his diagnosis to his fans on Saturday in a four-minute... View Article
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People’s National Party (PNP) Campaign Director Phillip Paulwell believes that COVID-19 restrictions will transform political and canvassing strategy in Jamaica as the country prepares for a general election constitutionally due by February 2021.
Meanwhile, PNP President Dr Peter Phillips has warned the Holness administration to hold to its word that a general election will not be held while states of emergency (SOEs) are operational.
Phillips’ comment coincided with the imposition of SOEs in Kingston Central and Kingston Western, which bring to 10 the number of police divisions under emergency powers.
The last time an election was called under a state of emergency was in 1976 by Michael Manley, the then prime minister and PNP president.
We are ready to go,” Phillips told The Gleaner as he disclosed that the meeting facilitated the sharing of campaign strategy.
With the country in the midst of a recession, nearly eight-in-ten registered voters (79%) say the economy will be very important to them in making their
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix on Monday previewed George C. Wolfe's August Wilson adaptation 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,' showcasing Chadwick Boseman's final performance opposite Viola Davis' powerhouse blues singer. The film, shot last year, was already one of the year's most anticipated, coming as the next chapter in Denzel Washington's ongoing project to turn Wilson's plays into films, following 2016's Oscar-winning 'Fences.' But since the unexpected death in August of 43-year-old Boseman from colon cancer, 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' has taken on a elegiac aura. Boseman's performance has been said to be among the […]
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In the spring of 2020, nursing homes were in the news and under considerable scrutiny because so many had patients with COVID-19. Many went into lockdown to keep their residents and staff safe. Nursing homes had been under the microscope long before the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 that resulted in the respiratory illness COVID-19, hit this country. […]
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if you head to Loser.com, you may find a familiar face. The website has been rerouted to President Donald Trump’s... View Article
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The state of Rhode Island, officially named Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is working to change its name because of its connection to slavery.
“Many of the State's residents find it painful that a word so closely associated with slavery should appear in the official name of the State,\" Raimondo wrote.
“I urge the voters to approve the name change in November but will take all measures now that are within my control to eliminate the name from my official communications and those of my executive agencies,” Raimondo said.
As reported by NPR, theologian Roger Williams, a founder of the Rhode Island settlement, added “Providence Plantations” to its name.
Rhode Island Senate President Dominick Ruggiero and Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello advocated for the revision in a joint statement
\"We both support placing on the ballot this November the decision whether to remove the word 'and Providence Plantations' from the state's name,\" the legislative leaders wrote.
Barack Obama is hitting President Donald Trump right where he thinks it’ll hurt most: His ego. Campaigning for Joe Biden on Saturday, the former president painted Trump as insecure and self-absorbed, describing him as a failed president who cares more about himself than the country. “Trump cares about feeding his ego. Joe cares about keeping you and your family safe,” […]
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Protests have erupted in Schenectady, New York after a police officer knelt on the neck of a Guyanese man who was being questioned in connection with an act of vandalism.
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St. Lucia police deny permission for Black Lives Matter rally
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\t\tCASTRIES, St. Lucia (CMC) – A request for a “Black Lives Matter” rally to be held here today has been turned down by the police.
St Lucia’s Acting Police Commissioner Milton Desir, in a letter on Wednesday, informed the Goodwill Ambassador Taj Weekes – who was helping to facilitate the rally – of the decision.
In the letter, the acting police commissioner pointed to the Emergency Powers (Disasters) (COVID-19) (Curfew) (No 8) Order 2020 and the restrictions it places on social activities.
In an interview with the St Lucia Times newspaper, Weekes said that it’s “unfortunate that they cannot see the necessity of a march at such a time”.
The advocacy group Black Lives Matter, St Lucia, said the peaceful protest was planned as a show of solidarity with the protest movement against police violence and racial injustice that has been sweeping the United States and the world.
Learn about absentee and early voting as alternatives to voting on Election Day. Find out the rules for your state. And check with your state for temporary changes to those rules for the 2020 elections. Many states are making it easier to vote by mail due to the coronavirus.
In the following article, James Langford, the first black teacher in Weed, briefly describes the history of the African American community there. Langford, who graduated from California State University at San Francisco with an elementary teaching credential in the spring of 1974, began teaching at the Weed Union Elementary School on August 28, 1974. He retired on June 7, 2007, after thirty-three years.
It was June, 1923, when five young Black men set out in a Model T Ford from Broken Bow, Oklahoma, to a small town in northern California. They were following the sounds of promise they had heard in the words of a young hobo, recently returned from a trip to the West Coast. He told of a better life for Black people in this burgeoning lumber town. “He said there was a mountain right there close to Weed you’d see snow the year round.” These are the words of Danny Piggee, describing how he first heard of Weed, the town he was to live in for the next thirty-seven years. “Weed was a miracle for Black people for work.”
When he and his cousin, Jim Hopkins, and their three companions reached Weed at noon on June 19, 1923, after fourteen and a half days on the road, they ate dinner, went to the hiring office of Weed Lumber Company, then to the Weed Hospital for health checks, and started work the next morning. A common laborer in the Weed mill was paid $3.60 for eight hours. Piggee went to work taking down lumber on the yard with D. Grant, one of his Oklahoma companions, as his partner. Because Grant had previous experience in this contract work, Piggee made over $5.00 the first day he worked. As he thought to himself at the time, “Boy, I oughta been here for years back.” In describing the town of Weed as it was in 1923, he said, “You could just almost pick your jobs when I came here. And it was a lotta, lotta Black folks here.”
One thousand African-Americans lived in Weed by the mid-1920s, when the town’s population reached over six thousand. In 1922, R. A. Long of Long-Bell Lumber Company had assumed
