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The build up to Christmas is an exciting time – especially with children – but we all know that shopping …
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.
Around 200 people turned out Monday for a protest in a poor Nairobi neighbourhood against police violence linked to the deaths of 15 people nationwide since the authorities imposed a curfew to fight coronavirus.
Kenya's Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) reported last week it had received 87 complaints against police since the dusk-to-dawn curfew and heightened security measures were imposed on March 27.
In recent days, cities around the world have seen massive protests against racism and police violence prompted by last month's police killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man in the US state of Minnesota.
In April, Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the police of imposing the coronavirus curfew in a \"chaotic and violent manner from the start\", sometimes whipping, kicking and teargassing people to force them off the streets.
On Thursday, the IPOA announced six police officers would be arrested and prosecuted - one for Moyo's death; another for shooting dead a secondary school teacher while responding to a burglary at a market in western Siaya; and four others for seriously assaulting a man during an arrest.
The United Kingdom Research and Innovation fund's Accelerate project is working with adolescent groups in Africa to understand how young people see their lives in terms of story.
We've found that the stories young people on the continent encounter - in films, web content and even young adult literature - tend to be about others, from elsewhere.
Clearly, the young people felt motivated by different kinds of story, not only a particular set of stories, such as about national heroes, but an accessible spectrum of stories ranging from Cinderella tales through to self-help narratives.
However, economic, social and other factors condition the way people access storytelling platforms such as theatre, spoken word events and reading groups.
If individuals are empowered by hearing stories that speak to their own conditions, then there is an excellent case for policy-makers and researchers on Africa to intervene to make more stories and more storytelling facilities available to more young African people.
Keke Palmer
2010 Winner, Age 16
2014 Winner, Age 20
Keke Palmer, singer/actress/hostess, has the distinction of being a two-time Young Star Award winner.
Jaden and Willow Smith
2011 Winners, Ages 12 and 10
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s two youngest children, Jaden and Willow, have always seemed like two peas in a pod, so it was fitting that they both took home the Young Star Award in 2011.
Diggy Simmons
2012 Winner, Age 17
Diggy Simmons comes from a musical family (his dad his rap legend Rev Run of Run DMC), so it makes sense that his Young Star Award was for his rap skills.
Gabrielle Douglas
2013 Winner, Age 17
By age 17, when Gabrielle Douglas took home the Young Star Award, she was already a two-time Olympic gold medalist for gymnastics.
Yara Shahidi
2017 Winner, Age 17
2018 Winner, Age 28
Actress Yara Shahidi is the only Young Star Award winner to have back to back wins.
A coalition of nonpartisan organizations, influencers, generational leaders, and activists have joined forces to host VOTE WITH US, a massive virtual rally and 11-day on-the- ground mobilization to create unprecedented voter turnout among young people and communities of color in the final days leading up to the general election. The three-hour event will stream on … Continued
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In a news release, the campaign noted that Biden “knows we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based disparities.”
They said the Biden Plan for Black America would:
• Advance the economic mobility of African Americans and close the racial wealth and income gaps.
“Today, we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based disparities,” Biden stated.
Biden said he plans to hold financial institutions accountable for discriminatory practices in the housing market, and he will restore the federal government’s power to enforce settlements against discriminatory lenders.
Winnie Mutuku has managed to sustain a feeding program for street children and families in Kitale, a town in western Kenya about 280 miles from the capital, Nairobi.
Mutuku, who manages Upendo Street Children -- a project run by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul -- has reunited many children with their families to avoid their being arrested by police during curfew hours.
Currently, I'm working on developing a new project for street children in the western part of Kenya [Kitale] where the Daughters of Charity have been engaged in services for 11 years.
Tell us about your ministry
I came to Kitale in July last year to do a feasibility study in preparation to respond to the issues of street children in Kitale town.
Is there something about the charism of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul that has made you focus on the needs of the street children?
Dear Cultural Coach: Why aren’t you more concerned about giving our youths the correct tools to succeed in a global market? Encouraging students to constantly speak “hip-hop” vocabulary will only hold them back. It’s not like past generations where the youths had a few words or phrases used among themselves; this is becoming a language […]
