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President Uhuru Kenyatta said it had been established that surge in infections had fallen below two per cent in the last two weeks.
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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McDonald’s USA announced June 25 the launch of its $500,000 Black & Positively Golden® Scholarship Fund to help students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue their education this fall, despite impacts of COVID-19.
The announcement comes in conjunction with the launch of the 2020 ESSENCE Festival of Culture: Unstoppable Virtual Experience, in which McDonald’s officially kicks off its partnership with the ESSENCE Girls United HBCU initiative.
“This year, donations to HBCUs are even more critical, as students continue dealing with the impacts of COVID-19 and, now, civil unrest and demands for Black equality,” said Harry L. Williams, Thurgood Marshall College Fund President & CEO.
That’s why TMCF is excited to further our commitment with McDonald’s to help keep more Black students in college.”
Commemorating a 20-year partnership with the ESSENCE Festival of Culture: Unstoppable Virtual Experience, McDonald’s is also embarking on a collaboration with the ESSENCE Girls United HBCU initiative, powered by Black & Positively Golden.
Los Angeles Trade Tech and Bank of America today announced a new $1 million jobs initiative partnership to help students of color successfully complete the education and training necessary to enter the workforce and embark on a path to success in Southern California.
The post Bank of America Awards Los Angeles Trade Tech $1 Million for Jobs Initiative appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
The police department in the US city of Minneapolis will be dismantled and rebuilt, city councillors said late Sunday, after the death in custody of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests about racism in law enforcement.
Council Member Alondra Cano tweeted that the decision came through \"a veto-proof majority of the MPLS City Council,\" which agreed that the police department \"is not reformable and that we're going to end the current policing system.\"
A white Minneapolis police officer has been charged with murder in the May 25 death of George Floyd, after bystander video showed the officer's knee pinned on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes while he pleaded for his life and called for his mother.
Last year, a black former Minneapolis police officer was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for the fatal shooting of an unarmed white Australian woman trying to report a crime.
Bender told CNN she was looking to shift police funding toward community-based strategies, and that the city council would discuss how to replace the current police department.
[Nation] Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has identified 1,000 more illegal dumpsites in Nairobi for closure, as it steps up its fight to rid the capital city of garbage.
EARLIER this year Finance minister Mthuli Ncube (my neighbour) visited us in Lupane, the provincial capital of Matabeleland North province.
Ncube devoted his time to the issues of a government subsidy on maize meal as well as the price hikes that the government had effected.
The minister explained that the price increase had been necessitated by corruption in the distribution of the commodity.
Is it responsible for the honourable minister to tell starving communities that they cannot access their daily staple diet because prices have been hiked in order to combat corruption?
Given the fact that the minister was flanked by local MPs, a Cabinet minister, government officials, Zanu-PF officials and some members of the taskforce responsible for the allocation and distribution of the commodity including the local business sector leaders, one then wonders who among them could be corrupt to the extent of necessitating a price hike.
(ThyBlackMan.com) 2020 has felt like a surreal experience; there has been no rest. Between the coronavirus pandemic to the murder of George Floyd which kickstarted a black revolution around the world; to the looming economic crash; to the upcoming Presidential election; there has been no respite from the sorrow and fear that has haunted us […]
article originally in The Root She was a Motown legend, bestselling author, music activist, former U.S. cultural ambassador and co-founding member of The Supremes—of which she was dubbed “the sexy one.” Entertainer Mary Wilson, best known as the longest-running member of the group she made famous alongside Diana Ross and Florence Ballard (and later, Cindy […]
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On a daily/nightly basis, someone I know in Trinidad assists numerous homeless individuals inhabiting public spaces within a nine-kilometre radius of her home. As she has no desire for recognition or reward and prefers to remain anonymous, I will refer to her here as \"Sammie\" (short for \"Samaritan\").
Recently Sammie contacted me to tell me about several of her street-dweller cases. The recipients of her kindness are largely unseen, ignored and/or forgotten by the world that revolves around them. With occasional valuable support from kindred spirits, Sammie feeds and helps the homeless, often into the night, until curfew drives her home.
To illustrate the nature and the magnitude of Sammie’s work, I will recount some of the welfare cases. Names of locations and individuals will be omitted.
Case 1:
B and S were never apart, except when B went in search of other liaisons. S’s mood changed on those rare occasions as she waited patiently for his return. Despite being \"macho\" and street-wise, he was a lovable, trusting, affectionate soul. She was far more reserved.
Three weeks ago, when Sammie took B for emergency surgery, a visibly pregnant S had cried, not knowing if or when he would return to protect her and their unborn offspring. In their two years of being on the streets, it had been hard for her to trust anyone, even Sammie, who understood that S would come to trust in her own time.
That day came recently when Sammie went to check on S. Uncharacteristically, she approached Sammie’s vehicle, straining with the weight of her swollen stomach. She allowed Sammie to take her for a medical checkup at the facility where B was recuperating. The promise of this reunion was all it took for her to start trusting again.
Case 2:
Two black youngsters hang around on the roadside, endangered by traffic. Despite the fact that they have a home, the younger one is malnourished. Sammie occasionally carries food for them.
Case 3:
His large, brown emaciated body makes him a shadow of what he must have been in his heyday. The youngster who hangs around with him grieves for his brother, who was killed by a truck.
Case 4:
Sammie helps to clean the wounds that result from street fights over limited resources. She uses her money, sometimes often forgoing her own needs, to ensure that the homeless are nourished and reasonably healthy.
Case 5
Individuals working in this particular area accuse Sammie of feeding the rats. They constantly ask her for cash and threaten her with violence upon realising that her priority is the homeless. To avoid confrontation, she now prepackages food and reduces time spent at that venue.
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The homeless individuals Sammie helps are dogs (mainly) and cats.
Does knowing this change the way you feel about the cases mentioned (assuming that you thought all along \"the homeless\" were humans)?
The following list mentions some of the almost 60 dogs/cats that Sammie feeds daily, at different locations...
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South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott tap danced for and shined the shoes of Donald Trump one last time by voting "not guilty" in the former president's impeachment trial.
A small group headed by President of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), Egeton Newman, today staged a demonstration at the intersection of Trafalgar, Hope and Waterloo roads in St Andrew calling for the authorities to cut the speed limit in built-up areas as a means to reduce fatal crashes.
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed his deputy Constantino Chiwenga as the new health minister, tasking him with reforming a decaying health sector amid a rise in Covid-19 infections and strikes by health workers.
According to Police Chief Renee Hall, officers began noticing a separation of protesters beginning around 8:45 to 9 p.m.
“Last night we saw a very large, peaceful demonstration that reflected the Dallas that I know as a native son of this city,” Johnson said.
Johnson said the outrage over Floyd’s death was justified, and added tha police officers in Dallas and all over the country shared in the condemnation of the acts which led to his death.
Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall, who had spoken longside the mayor the day before, found herself at the podium again the next day.
On Monday, Texas Governor Gregg Abbott made an appearance with the mayors of Dallas and Fort Worth and vowed to use state resources to support local cities dealing with actions which go above and beyond the level of “peaceful protests.”
The United States is in an “unnecessary predicament” of soaring COVID-19 cases fueled by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent delta... View Article
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The business of telehealth in the dentistry field in California could be transformed if a bill passes that prevents patients from dealing directly with companies without first seeing a dentist.
In a letter addressed to Cal Matters published on March 27, the California State NAACP President Alice Huffman asked the legislature to reject any bill that would create a barrier to affordable dental care.
African Americans and other people of color have the right to affordable, quality health care treatment,” Huffman stated.
Huffman also shared that SmileDirectClub, for example, pioneered a teledentistry platform for clear aligner therapy treatment that has helped more than 100,000 Californians, including African Americans.
In the current throes of the coronavirus pandemic, Huffman stresses that these services are critical for Californians in need of health care or dental care.
By Nkechi Taifa, Esq. WASHINGTON (Trice Edney News Wire) — I am at Ground Zero. My law degree cannot protect me. My fancy address cannot protect me. My radio appearances and Zoom book tour cannot protect me. I check with, and for, my daughter against this madness as we all should the way the Black […]
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Kenya has lost 32 patients to the coronavirus, according to the latest statistics from the Health Ministry.
People fleeing volcano in Congo May 24, 2021 (GIN) - An erupting mountain of fiery red flames from one of the world’s most active and dangerous volcanoes shook residents of the city of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, sparking a panicked exodus by thousands to neighboring Rwanda. A din of people and honking horns […]
Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States and the first African American to occupy the White House. Obama was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was a Kenyan graduate student studying in the United States and his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, a white American from Wichita, Kansas. The two were married on February 2, 1961 in Maui, Hawaii. In 1971, when he was ten, Obama’s mother, who had remarried and was living in Indonesia, sent him to Honolulu, Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents Madelyn and Stanley Dunham for several years, where he attended Punahou, a prestigious preparatory school. Obama was admitted on a scholarship with the assistance of his grandparents.
Obama continued his higher education at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. He later transferred to Columbia University in New York City, New York, graduating with a Bachelor’s (B.A.) in 1983. He attended law school at Harvard University, receiving his law degree (J.D.) in 1992. While at Harvard Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review. After relocating to Chicago he began working as a community organizer and later lecturing at the University of Chicago Law School on the subject of constitutional law.
In 1989 Obama met Michelle Robinson who at the time was an attorney at the Chicago law firm of Sidney and Austin. Obama was a summer intern for the firm that year. Three years later, in 1992, they were married. Their two daughters, Malia and Natasha (Sasha) were born in Chicago in 1999 and 2001, respectively.
In 1994, Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate from an economically diverse district that includes Hyde Park (surrounding the University of Chicago) as well as working class African American neighborhoods in the heart of Chicago’s South Side. Obama remained in the State Senate until 2004.
During his tenure in the Illinois State Senate, Obama helped craft legislation to create the state Earned Income Tax Credit which reduced the tax bill of working class
St. John’s – Authorities and experts attending the high-level virtual Second Meeting of the Signatory Countries to the Escazú Agreement here, have underscored the importance of guaranteeing human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), delegates have also highlighted the significance of the Regional Agreement on […]
By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States and Iran said Friday that they would begin indirect talks with other major world powers to try to get both countries back into an accord limiting Iran's nuclear program, nearly three years after President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal. State Department spokesperson Ned Price called the resumption of negotiations, scheduled for Tuesday in Austria, 'a healthy step forward.' But Price added, 'These remain early days, and we don't anticipate an immediate breakthrough as there will be difficult discussions ahead.' Agreement on the start of multiparty […]
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President of the May Pen Chamber of Commerce, Winsome Witter, says urgent attention needs to be paid to a problematic drain in the heart of the town. In an interview with The Gleaner, she referred to the drain as “a disaster waiting to happen” and...
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Bolgatanga — The Upper East Regional Director of Agriculture, Mr Francis Ennor, has assured farmers in the region that the Ministry of Food and Agriculture will not withdraw its interventions to them in this farming season as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
The Regional Director allayed the fears of the farmers at an award ceremony organised by the Ghana Agricultural Sector Investment Programme (GASIP) and his outfit in Bolgatanga on Monday to honour some farmers in the region for adopting Agriculture Conservation Practices.
Mr Ennor said any lapses to support farmers to undertake farming activities this farming season would have the tendency of affecting food security in this period of COVID-19.
Mr Ennor impressed upon the farmers to adopt climate smart agriculture technologies such as the use of climate-resilient seeds, applying the right quantity of fertilizer at the right time, appropriate land preparation devoid of slash and burn, to enable them harvest good yields.
He said the five-year GASIP, which is being implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), would this farming season provide support in the form of climate-resilient seeds and other inputs to 1,500 smallholder farmers in 12 districts to cultivate a maximum of two acres each, using various climate-smart agriculture technologies and techniques.
After four long days of waiting, Joe Biden has been called the projected winner of the 2020 presidential election.
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