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The Chadwick Boseman Foundation for the Arts is keeping the late actor’s memory alive. The organization, which launched this year, recently announced its collaboration with Girls Who Code and Meta to create a new augmented reality effect uplifting Black women creators.
An HDC official at the site, who did not what to be named, told Newsday the HDC could not give an exact date for the finishing the repairs.
However, the spokesman said the corporation is working to do so as quickly as possible once the weather does not affect the work.
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The Black Lives Matter movement sparked greater attention to Black creators and influencers who were being overlooked. Now, a new study reveals Black influencers make 35% less in pay than their white peers.
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer Report for America Corps Member msayles@afro.com The Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) recently released its final Baltimore Together report after two years of gathering insights, feedback and recommendations from over 300 diverse stakeholders. The report serves as the city’s comprehensive economic development strategy for the next five years. A major […]
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A Black family's unpleasant exchange on an American Airlines flight has resulted in their plans to pursue legal action against the company. Allan Ali, Kamia Hoilett and their newborn were asked to deplane a Philadelphia-bound flight on Sunday at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the Independent reports . After a verbal dispute with a white male co-passenger and white female flight attendant, the family was removed from the plane. During an interview, Ali said that the altercation originated over seating arrangements as the couple and the gentleman were placed on the same row. As they stood to allow the man to get to his seat, he allegedly told them, “Y’all have to get up,” The Shade Room reported . Ali said that the attendant had a “passive-aggressive tone” when she told Hoilett to sit down and fasten her seatbelt. The flight attendant is accused of storming off to report the incident. After the captain was informed of the distraction, the crew was instructed to remove the...
Dr Carissa Etienne, director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), said on Wednesday Trinidad and Tobago is one of the countries of concern in the region owing to the increase in cases of covid19.
Speaking at PAHO's weekly webinar, Etienne said: \"In the Caribbean, TT continues to experience spikes in covid19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths, as does the Cayman Islands.\"
Last week PAHO reported more than 782,655 new infections and 10,950 deaths related to covid19.
Etienne said the omicron variant has already been detected in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, the US, Mexico and Canada.
“It is a matter of time before omicron reaches the rest of the countries in the region, and we must be self-vigilant in the short term. Assessments are under way and it is important countries continue to implement the public health packages that have been shown to be effective against this virus,” she said.
Etienne said vaccines also remain a critical tool for reducing hospitalisations and deaths, as well as limiting the emergence of new variants.
PAHO reported as of Wednesday 55 per cent of people in Latin America and the Caribbean have been fully vaccinated. However, 20 countries in the region have not yet reached the 40 per cent target set for this year.
Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines continue to lag behind and will not meet the target in the coming weeks.
Etienne said this week PAHO is delivering more than 1.6 million covid19 vaccines to various countries for a total of 72 million doses delivered in the region, while also distributing 34 million seasonal flu vaccines to 33 countries.
\"We have secured more than US$ 1 billion in vaccines through the revolving fund, as well as orders for the coming year as countries continue to request additional doses,\" Etienne said.
She said in all the countries of the Americas there is still community spread and a relaxation of measures which has prevented progress towards the goal of ending covid19.
Dr Jarbas Barbosa, deputy director of PAHO, said Chile and Uruguay already have more than 80 per cent of their populations vaccinated and Brazil has made progress in recent weeks.
However, Barbosa said populations should not be neglected and that there are still many people who are in need of the third booster dose.
\"There is still a lot to do, You must be very careful so that the transmission is fully controlled,\" he said.
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While accepting the Innovator of The Year Award at Variety’s Hitmakers Brunch in Los Angeles on Saturday, Lil Nas X admitted that he had \"a lot of fun pissing people off this year,\" Out reports . The confession, of course, doesn't come as a surprise for Lil Nas X fans, who have followed the rapper closely throughout the year. In October, the artist pissed off one of his biggest critics, Boosie , as Blavity previously reported . \"So, I been working on this song with Lil Boosie, bro,\" the 22-year-old singer said, clearly trolling his fellow rapper, on Instagram Live. \"I got this song with Lil Boosie finna come out. Fire, I ain't even gon' lie, for real. Song with Boosie finna come out.\" Boosie responded with homophobic rhetoric. \"STOP TROLLING ME F****T LOL,\" he wrote. \"U A WHOLE B***H PLAYING WITH A GANGSTA SMH U CAN KEEP SUCKING D**K N GETTIN F**KED N YOUR ASS N PEACE N #uhateyourself I WOULD TOO IF I WAS YOU LOL NASx IF YOU #commitsuicide YOU WOULD DO THIS WORLD A HUGE FAVOR....
Grammy Award-winning artist Alicia Keys recently sat down with Revolt's Drink Champs and shared her and JAY-Z's reaction to Lil Mama crashing their 2009 MTV Video Music Awards performance. Keys and JAY-Z were on stage performing their hit single \"Empire State of Mind\" when Lil Mama ran on stage, ultimately hitting a b-boy stance at the end of the set. The fallout of her gaffe that even Beyoncé tried to prevent from happening, caused the \"Lip Gloss\" rapper to be the subject of a plethora of jokes. “The truth of all the truths — all I know, we was on that stage. Jay was here, I was here. In my head, I was such a gorilla at the time and I was like, ‘This is what’s happening. I’m going to destroy this record tonight.’ … Somehow, however she got over here, I didn’t even bear witness to. The whole show I was iced — so focused on making it amazing,” Keys recalled , according to Hip Hop DX. “I went backstage and Jay was like, ‘So, you ain’t see that?’ And I was like, ‘What?’ And he was...
OFFICIALS from both business and labour organisations attested that some workers laid off during the closure of businesses during the pandemic had not received compensation. They were speaking at Wednesday's virtual sitting of Parliament's Joint Select Committee (JSC) on Social Services and Public Administration chaired by Independent Senator Paul Richards.
TT Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) president Mark Edghill lamented that some workers could not access grants when their employers were non-compliant with listed statutory requirements.
Saying grants were not made available to all sectors, he said workers in the pest control industry had suffered when laid off. While that industry was deemed to be an essential service, and so allowed to continue to operate during the pandemic, most of their clients were shut and so pest control operators had little work to do and laid off staff.
Those workers then found it hard to access relief grants, he explained.
Edghill also lamented that during the last lockdown (which ended in early August) many people had not been able to access social relief if their last date of pay had been April 29, just before the officially designated date to qualify of May 1.
\"They were denied salary grants because they did not lose their job on May 1. That is something that is completely ridiculous.\"
He urged corrective measures for the many such people who had been unable to access grants.
\"The first tranche of grants in 2020, people did see their grants coming in. For 2021 however, I think that less than ten per cent of people that have applied have received their grant.\"
Aviation, Communication and Allied Workers Union secretary general Peter Farmer said he knew of people who had applied for a grant but received none, some being told the grants had been approved but no funds were available to pay them.
TT Manufacturer Association director George Naime later said he thought staff at the Ministry of Social Development probably had felt they were \"sucked into a vortex\" of demands and had felt overwhelmed.
TTCSI CEO Vashti Guyadeen named sectors worst hit by the pandemic as tourism, arts and entertainment, recreation, sports services, personal care, and daycare, the latter which was still shut.
Conversely, she said growth areas during the pandemic had been business and professional services, consultants, IT and architects, with some professionals going online to work internationally on 4-5 projects per year compared to a usual rate of one project. Edghill said tour operators could now be partially eased up by letting them operate safely under covid19 protocols at certain sites.
He said his membership was split right down the middle over a workplace vaccination policy. His own view was that it could be considered by each sector and by specific business operations.
However Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU) general secretary Trevor Johnson said rather than mandatory vaccinations, workplaces could simply apply the Ministry of Health's usual covid19
“CA’s large-scale testing and early detection systems have found the Omicron COVID-19 variant in California,” Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted Dec. 1. “We should assume that it’s in other states as well. There’s no reason to panic — but we should remain vigilant. That means get vaccinated. Get boosted. Wear a mask indoors.”
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Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, who will be remembered for his handling of George Floyd's death, has announced he will retire early next year
Star Trek icon Nichelle Nichols , who is best known for playing communications officer Nyota Uhura, was honored with the NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal on Sunday when she appeared at Comic-Con in Los Angeles, People reported . NASA Astronaut Appearance Specialist Denise Young presented the award during a panel, recognizing the trailblazer for her four decades of work in diversifying the ranks within the space agency. The crowd applauded in unison as the 88-year-old star rose from her wheelchair to accept the award. \"A life well-lived is reward enough, every day, and my mother's certainly had a life well lived in many respects,\" Nichols' son, Kyle Johnson, told the audience. \"This is an exceptional recognition, and I'm of course very proud of her for all that she's done, and the value and the meaning of her work. Not just as an actress, but very real and important work that she inspired and enabled people to understand.\" Star Trek: Discovery actress Sonequa...
The opposition Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) has won the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) elections that political observers say will have implications for the future relationship between Trinidad and Tobago in the future.
Last summer, after the May 25, 2020 killing of George Floyd by former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, there were protests in the streets around the U.S.
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Vanessa Bryant says she felt ``sick'' and ``extreme sadness and anger'' when learning that Los Angeles County sheriffs and fire department personnel had allegedly snapped and shared gruesome photos
of the bodies of her late husband and the couple's 13-year-old daughter at the scene of the helicopter crash that killed nine people, according to court
papers obtained.
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Affectionately known as the Barbz, Minaj's fans are all over Twitter praising their queen in celebration of her birthday, which is today (Dec. 8).
The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) will support the digitalisation process of the online tax payment system being implemented by the government.
In a press release on Tuesday, CAF said the agreement was formalised with the signing of the technical co-operation.
CAF said it is \"intended to increase and improve the ease of payment of tax obligations for individuals and companies by supporting legal, regulatory and change management initiatives that are key to the digitisation of the online tax payment in the country.\"
The agreement was signed virtually at the end of the meeting of CAF's board of directors by Finance Minister Colm Imbert and CAF executive president Sergio Díaz-Granados.
The release said this technical co-operation will evaluate the functional needs of an online payment method for customs duties and other fees administered by the Customs and Special Taxes Division; support the standardisation of legal agreements between the TT authorities and the commercial banking system; and ensure a secure and resilient digital system to support the online tax payment system in the Internal Revenue Division, among other things.
In the last four years (2016-2020), CAF approved operations for TT for a total of US$1,151 million, which represents an average of US$288 million per year, accompanied by agreements on technical assistance such as the one signed on Tuesday and creating knowledge.
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As cases of COVID-19 and its variants continue to crop up around the world, the third dose of this particular vaccine shows promise of mitigating worsening conditions.
AFTER a donation of 305,370 doses of Pfizer vaccine in August, TT will get a second tranche of 304,200 doses of this covid19 vaccine from the US Government, said statements on Wednesday by the Government and the US Embassy.
The vaccines are due to arrive in two shipments at Piarco Airport at 8.22 am on Thursday and 8.22 am on Friday.
They are part of a total of 907,920 doses being donated to TT.
The ministry statement said Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne welcomed the arrival.
\"Minister Browne thanks the Government of the US for this generous donation, which is the result of sustained dialogue, diplomacy, and negotiations involving the Government of US, the Government of TT, other Caricom member states, the Caricom Secretariat, CARPHA and Pfizer.
It said the Prime Minister, while he was chairman of Caricom, initiated and led the effort to acquire vaccines on behalf of TT and Caricom, and since then, theGovernment of TT has continued to acquire WHO-approved covid19 vaccines, and the Ministry of Health will use these vaccines in its national rollout.
The US Embassy statement said, \"The donation brings the total number of Pfizer vaccines that the US has donated to TT to 609,570.
\"This donation is part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to lead in the effort to vaccinate the world, having shipped over 280 million free vaccines to 110 countries to help us get out of this pandemic.\"
With the emergence of the omicron variant, US President Joe Biden said on December 2 that the US will accelerate the delivery of vaccines to countries that need them, said the statement.
\"President Biden has pledged to deliver 200 million doses – more doses within the next 100 days – on the way to delivering more than 1.2 billion doses for the rest of the world.
The statement quoted US Embassy chargé d’affaires Shante Moore.
“The US is proud to donate these free covid19 vaccines to the people of TT, who are our neighbours, family members, and friends. I urge everyone to get vaccinated. As President Biden said, ‘We are doing our part, and we’ll do more, but this a global pandemic and everyone needs to fight it together.’”
The embassy said the 907,920 doses donated by the US will constitute 77 per cent of all vaccines donated to TT since deliveries began in February.
\"The initial Pfizer vaccine donation allowed children aged 12-18 to be vaccinated and begin to return to school.
\"The US Government only donates vaccines approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. These are the same vaccines that all American citizens can receive and are the same doses the US is sharing globally.\"
TT's vaccination rates have plummeted in recent months. Covid19 cases have increased rapidly.
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