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Today is the sixth day of 2021. There are 359 days left in the year,TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1942: The Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper arrives in New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial aeroplane.�OTHER EVENTS
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
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Ohio Democratic Senator Tina Maharath broke down in session today while having discussions about racism.
Senator Maharath fears that sending her child back to school will lead to racism due to President Trump continuing to refer to COVID-19 as “kung-flu” or the “Chinese Virus”.
Senator Maharath is Ohio’s first Asian American lawmaker and serves the 3rd district.
Senator Maharath was attending an Ohio Senate Health Committee meeting and listening to guests sharing how racism has impacted their lives.
Senator Maharath also shared some of her feelings on her tweet Senator Maharath started to receive many tweets of Trump continues to stand behind his racist language as he blames China for the COVID-19 Senator Breaks Down During Session Due to Racism
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Senegalese President Macky Sall has quarantined himself as a precaution after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to a presidential statement late Wednesday.
Although Sall tested negative for the virus, he will be undergoing a quarantine process of 15 days based on medical recommendations.
Yeya Diallo, a lawmaker in parliament, announced earlier in the day that she had tested positive for the virus and called on people to take essential personal measures such as maintaining hygiene and social distancing.
The pandemic has killed more than 482,000 people worldwide, with an excess of 9.4 million confirmed cases and greater than 4.7 million recoveries, according to figures compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University.
About five months before he was killed by Atlanta police in a Wendy’s parking lot — before his name and case would become the latest rallying point in a massive call for racial justice and equality nationwide — Brooks gave an interview to an advocacy group about his years of struggle in the criminal justice system.
Without his income from working full time in trucking, his wife was struggling with a new job and care of their kids, and she had to borrow money from a friend to get by, Brooks explained.
In 2018, Brooks traveled to Toledo, Ohio, and met his father for the first time.
In January, Georgia authorities brought Brooks back to the state on a fugitive warrant alleging he failed to notify them of his address and complete a theft prevention class as his probation required.
Brooks had stayed in touch with ARK Restoration and talked of returning there for work once he could move to Toledo with his family, Mikolajczyk said.
Students of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, will be able to access medical care islandwide at private and public institutions come September 2020, following the passing of an extended health-card policy led by the students’ guild.
Prior to the policy change, students were only able to obtain medical services and prescription drugs at the UWI Health Centre or at public hospitals in Jamaica.
All registered students become eligible for the university’s mandatory health insurance plan and are issued health cards at the start of each academic year, once their miscellaneous fees have been paid.
Guild President Christina Williams told The Gleaner that over the years, hundreds of students, including her, opted not to collect their health cards because of the limited access it provides.
The policy change will reflect a $450 increase in the health insurance fee paid by students for the upcoming academic year.
According to the New York Daily News, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has greenlit the painting of “Black Lives Matter” in giant yellow letters in front of Trump Tower on Fifth Ave between 56th and 57th streets in Midtown Manhattan and Cheeto Jesus is cursing the heavens for the move.
Early yesterday morning Trump tweeted, “Told that @NYCMayor Bill de Blasio wants to paint the fabled beautiful Fifth Avenue, right in front of Trump Tower/Tiffany, with a big yellow Black Lives Matter sign.
While police officers have been caught on tape blasting the Black Lives Matter protests and even fantasizing about a racial civil war, we haven’t heard any cops upset about having the sign painted in front of Trump Tower nor in Brooklyn a few weeks ago.
As a matter of fact, Donald Trump didn’t weigh in on the “Black Lives Matter” mural that Spike Lee and company helped paint in Bed-Stuy.
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After 33-year-old Satchell was asked by the manager to leave the club following an argument over food, the manager asked Miami Gardens Police Officer Jordy Yanes Martel to issue a trespassing warning.
A video, taken by a passenger in Satchell’s car, not only captured the encounter, but also proves Martel made false statements in his written account of the incident.
Martel claimed Satchell closed the car window on his hand, and kicked and punched him in the lip while resisting arrest.
“As a result of Martel’s actions, Ms. Satchell suffered abrasions to her stomach from the Tasers, bruises and abrasions on her arms and bruises on her legs,” Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle said.
“By filing these criminal charges today against former Miami Gardens officer Jordy Yanes Martel, we are saying that these actions are just plain wrong.”
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced on Tuesday that he would hold talks on establishing a new unity government, after weeks of escalating criticism from the country’s political opposition.
On Tuesday, Keita said he would “begin consultations for the formation of a government of national unity,” in an apparent overture to Mali’s political opposition.
However, the constitutional court caused controversy in Mali in April when it overturned several results for parliamentary seats in the recent elections.
In a move that triggered protests in several cities, Mali’s constitutional court in April overturned the results in some 30 seats, which saw about a dozen candidates from the presidential party take parliamentary seats.
Keita’s decision to form a new government of national unity also comes after speculation in Bamako political circles about whether the president would dissolve the parliament.
Three young opposition activists in Zimbabwe who said they had been abducted and sexually assaulted faced charges on Friday of lying about their treatment as the government claims their allegations are part of a plot to destabilise the country.
Their case has become the latest flashpoint in Zimbabwe, with a group of United Nations experts this week speaking out against a “reported pattern of disappearances and torture” by government agents in the southern African nation.
The women already faced charges of contravening Zimbabwe’s coronavirus lockdown.
Magistrate Bianca Makwande said she will rule on the bail application on Monday, meaning the women will spend the weekend in remand prison.
The women alleged their abductors took them from a police station in May after they were arrested for organising an anti-government protest.
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Dr. William Strudwick stands outside Howard University Hospital, where he works as an attending physician in the emergency department.
For Dr. Strudwick, Dr. Janice Blanchard at George Washington University Hospital and Dr. Marcee Wilder at United Medical Center, working amid the pandemic, inspires a sense of duty – and sometimes despair.
Dr. Janice Blanchard stands outside George Washington University Hospital, where she works as an emergency medicine physician.
Challenge isolating large families
The frustration is familiar to Dr. Janice Blanchard, who noticed the public health guidelines for COVID-19 did not fit the lives of some of her patients at George Washington University Hospital.
Protesters want to remove the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Yale history professor David Blight about why he thinks the memorial should stay up.
In Washington, D.C., protesters have been demanding the removal of a monument honoring another former president, Abraham Lincoln.
Critics say the imagery itself is racist, and David Blight, a professor of history at Yale University, agrees.
MARTIN: So I want to mention here that, professor Blight, you're the author of the biography \"Frederick Douglass: Prophet Of Freedom.\"
And you talk about the fact that Frederick Douglass is connected to this monument in a very significant way.
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President Trump is clashing with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over the installation of a Black Lives Matter street mural in front of the crown jewel of his business empire: the Trump Tower.
According to the New York Daily News, De Blasio is planning to have the mural painted on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue in front of the skyscraper.
“Bill de Blasio wants to paint the fabled beautiful Fifth Ave., right in front of Trump Tower/Tiffany, with a big yellow Black Lives Matter sign,” he wrote.
De Blasio countered Trump’s complaint about the slogan “Black Lives Matter.”
The mayor has said that he wanted to see Black Lives Matter murals in each of New York’s Five Boroughs.
Last Friday, Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella MP and leader of the NGC party in parliament, paid what many described as a very timely visit to The Bombali Covid19 Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in Makeni.
The highly esteemed Member of Parliament visited the Center to make observations and get first-hand information on its operations, and to engage with the Coordinator, Surveillance officers, head superior of the quarantine homes, civil societies, head of securities personnel, President of Journalist Northern Region and volunteers.
Dr Yumkella made a number of observations including but not limited to the fact that there is no covid testing facility in the district.
He said will take those concerns back to Freetown to discuss with top party members of The National Grand Coalition Party (NGC), for possible action in the best Interest of Sierra Leone.
The 2018 Presidential Candidate of the NGC, later visited the party’s new Bombali District Office which is located at Bayo Lane in Makeni City, where he held discussions with members of the NGC district party executives.
Kerry Washington believes that society should be more aware of the “language” used surrounding the topics of inclusivity and diversity.
During an appearance on the first episode of the “Hollywood, The Sequel” NPR podcast with host John Horn, Washington spoke candidly about the entertainment industry in the wakes of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery.
“I think a more radical acceptance of anti-racist society, policies, and culture,” Washington explained.
Washington also admitted that despite the uptick in protests, “not much has changed for Black people in the last couple of weeks.”
But until the day comes where society witnesses a rebuilding of the broken systems in place, Washington hopes that “a lot of good [comes out of these conversations] and that we can see each other and have courage to make room for each other.”
Today, 27th June 2020, marks the first anniversary of the departure of our beloved father, brother, grandad, uncle, cousin, and friend – Mr Michael Alphonso Kalley, who sadly passed away in Freetown on the 27th of June 2019, aged 66.
Michael was a long-time resident of Houston, Texas, USA – a man full of life and love for family.
Michael is survived by his daughter – Sylvia Suadu in London; granddaughters – N’Gardie and Fantah; Sisters – Isabella Deensie in Virginia, USA, Evelyn Bright – Davies in Atlanta, USA, Ann Dunn in Dallas, USA, and Sylvia Suadu Mason in London, UK; his brother – Mr Donald Ishmael Kalley in Canada; Sisters in law – Yvette Kalley in Houston, Texas, and Mrs Christiana Kalley in Canada; brothers in Law – Dr Alex Dunn and Mr Dennis Deensie in the USA.
Speaking to the Editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph – Abdul Rashid Thomas – about the passing of his friend Michael, one gets a true sense of the depth of loss that his family and friends are going through – twelve months on.
“Mike is sorely missed by his family and friends, especially in Sierra Leone, UK, Canada and the USA.
On Wednesday, June 24, the “T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle” star posted a video of herself pushing 2-year-old daughter Reign Rushing in a stroller up a nearby mountain in Georgia.
Fiancé Robert “Red” Rushing recorded Johnson as they made their way up the mountain.
A sweaty and tired Johnson replied, “Red.”
Johnson joked in her caption about how her fiancé annoyed her and wrote, “Pushing this stroller up the mountain today was tough as hell but I made it to the top.
No details have been revealed about Johnson and Rushing’s wedding, but fans believe it will be sometime this year.
With their Unfinished Business Initiative, the brand is providing immediate relief and long-term support to minority-owned businesses that were hit hard by the global crisis.
For the recovery initiative, they have partnered with community organizations One Hundred Black Men, the Asian American Business Development Center and the Hispanic Federation to ensure support is distributed directly at the community-level among those who need it the most.
“COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on the nation’s small business community, and in many cases Unfinished Business will provide much needed support and assistance.
The Founding Chapter of One Hundred Black Men applauds Hennessy for recognizing that small businesses are the soul of America,” Michael J. Garner, president of the founding chapter of One Hundred Black Men of New York, said in a press release.
As part of Unfinished Business, Hennessy will offset the impact of COVID-19 on the hospitality industry with a pledge of $750,000 to an organization in support of bartenders and hospitality workers.
Charles Parker, Jr., also known as Bird or Yardbird was an extraordinaire American alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and a lyric artist.
Parker played in their band during the late 1930s.
Parker recorded his first solos as a member of Jay McShann’s band, with whom he toured the eastern United States in 1940 to 1942.
He formed a friendship with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, which led Parker to develop new music in avant-garde jam sessions in New York’s Harlem.
Parker became addicted to drugs for several years.
African American Freemen In Louisiana: African Americans in Louisiana had already organized their own battalion in September 1812. The state legislature of Louisiana had organized a Corp of free African Americans as part of the state militia. After General Andrew Jacksons call to arms, the Battalion of Free men of color, as they were called were joined by a second battalion of African American soldiers organized by a free Black Santo Domingan emigrant, Joseph Savary, and together they were pressed into service in December 1914 to defend New Orleans. While one battalion attended British forces at Chalmette Plains, the other built fortifications against the British attack in January 1815. Both were engaged on January 8 during the main attack by the British, and together they kept the center of the fortifications, the artillery batteries from being taken. Although the African Americans had repulsed the British assault, British sharpshooters took up positions after the battle and picked off Americans trying to rescue their wounded in the field. Savary, now a captain, led a group of African American men who routed the British sharpshooters in the last major battle of the contest. Afterward, Jackson praised the African American soldiers as having not disappointed the hopes that were formed of their courage and perseverance in the performance of their duty.
Prices of basic goods gallop every week as the value of the Zimbabwean dollar continues to tumble, pushing official annual inflation to 785.6% in April.
A loaf of bread went up 36% last month and last week a 10kg sack of cornmeal jumped 30%.
Mnangagwa, who took power in 2017 following a military coup pledging to revive the moribund economy, now blames the economic malaise on unnamed \"political detractors\".
The Zimbabwean authorities have in recent weeks targeted opposition activists and lawyers in what is seen as a tactic to strike fear into the population.
University of Zimbabwe's political scientist Eldred Masunungure said the situation \"points to volatility in the country, a comprehensively volatile situation both politically and in the economy where it's very visible as it affects the livelihoods of the vast majority of the people\".
After four years away from the NFL and going from a quarterback to a freedom fighter along the way, Colin Kaepernick now has the interest of more than one National Football League team, according to NFL Network.
Still, this is the most that’s been said about the 32-year-old Kaepernick playing in the NFL again since the league set up a tryout for him last year and invited teams to watch.
An NFL Network reporter said that he spoke with one head coach of the league who is “absolutely” interested in Kaepernick.
The teams interested in Kaepernick haven’t been revealed, but earlier this month Los Angeles Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn said Kaepernick fits his team’s system perfectly.
Earlier this month, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell also spoke about Kaepernick and said that he encourages an NFL team to sign him.
Ayi Kwei Armah , (born 1939, Takoradi, Gold Coast [now Ghana]), Ghanaian novelist whose work deals with corruption and materialism in contemporary Africa.
Armah was educated in local mission schools and at Achimota College before going to the United States in 1959 to complete his secondary education at Groton School and his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University. He thereafter worked as a scriptwriter, translator, and English teacher in Paris, Tanzania, Lesotho, Senegal, and the United States, among other places.
In his first novel, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Armah showed his deep concern for greed and political corruption in a newly independent African nation. In his second novel, Fragments (1970), a young Ghanaian returns home after living in the United States and is disillusioned by the Western-inspired materialism and moral decay that he sees around him. The theme of return and disillusionment continued in Why Are We So Blest? (1971), but with a somewhat wider scope. In Two Thousand Seasons (1973) Armah borrowed language from the African dirge and praise song to produce a chronicle of the African past, which is portrayed as having a certain romantic perfection before being destroyed by Arab and European despoilers. The Healers (1979), Armah’s fifth novel, explores a young man’s quest to become a practitioner of traditional medicine while the Asante empire falls to British forces. Armah took an extended break from publishing before releasing Osiris Rising in 1995. The novel examines the struggles of independent Africa and the lingering effects of colonialism.
All of Armah’s works were concerned with the widening moral and spiritual chasm that existed between appearance and reality, spirit and substance, and past and present in his native Ghana.
Still, the world is full of falsehood, and not only do people make an effort to keep up appearances, they actually do egregious things to alter their appearance, giving the world the impression that they are, but they really are not.
There are so many people in our midst who are living in falsehood, or as we more commonly say, living a lie.
That's where we'll be heading today, down the yellow brick road to the land of falsehood, right after these reflective responses to my take on 'Ugly baby on board'.
But living the life in falsehood is right here on our shores also, as many people give the impression that their lives are so hunky-dory and peachy, when in reality it's more like Humpty Dumpty after the fall and pinchy cobie.
At times it's difficult not to live in the land of falsehood, as society demands so much, making people put on layers of acceptance that they cannot afford to maintain.
