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Relationships are hard work. Well, serious ones, at least. They involve a lot of time, energy, patience, understanding and more. They involve trust, respect, and agreement. When you first get into a relationship, most times many things are peachy and cream. There’s usually a spark like no other. You could talk to that person all […]
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.
Meet Shedrick Wynn, who arrived at Georgia in 1999 to play football but never finished his college degree.
The defensive end was initially recruited to Georgia by Jim Donnan, went through a coaching change that brought Mark Richt to Athens, and got significant time on the 2002 team that captured the school’s first Southeastern Conference title in 20 years.
Needing a job with better health insurance benefits, Wynn accepted an offer to become a paraprofessional and assistant football coach at Cedar Shoals High School, not far from the Georgia campus.
Over the years, Wynn had stayed in touch with Horvat, inquiring time and time again about returning to school but never following through.
Then, a chance meeting at Cedar Shoals, where Horvat’s children went to school and she remains an avid booster, sparked a renewed interest in Wynn to finally finish what he started all those years ago.
BY WINSTONE ANTONIO LOCAL arts production house, Patsimeredu Edutainment Trust’s director Jasen Mphepo says theatre plays an important role in people’s lives, not only providing entertainment, but also creating a platform for engagement, debates and questions critical issues affecting the society. Patsimeredu Edutainment has been using theatre to create dialogue in different platforms of engagement on diverse societal issues. In an interview with NewsDay Life &Style yesterday, Mphepo said their key programming was centred on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) targeting mostly in and out of school youths. “The Buddies For Love, which is our organisation's flagship project, targets young people through the use of theatre. Theatre and other communication strategies such as song, dance and peer education form part of the project intervention,” he said. “Theatre plays both an informative as well as an influencer role. Artistes are emulated by the audience they perform for, hence playing a decisive role modelling good behaviour and at the same time helping people change their behaviour by offering them alternative solutions,” he said. Mphepo said their work entailed helping young people believe in themselves and make informed choices about their sexuality and sexual health, adding that they used baseline surveys to gather evidence on issues affecting young people to produce theatre plays that are then performed for the target audience. “The programme which annually targets over 36 000 students and 3 000 out of school youths empower young people with knowledge and information, leading to behavioural and attitude change with regards their sexuality and sexual health,” he said. “The programme links young people to services such as legal and health-related services. We have helped many young people who are at risk of sexual abuse and risky sexual behaviours overcome them including drug and alcohol abuse.” Currently Patsimeredu is running a radio drama titled Shelea on women empowerment that shall be airing on local radio station every Thursday. The compelling radio drama (Shelea) is part of a She Leads campaign being supported by HIVOS and the Embassy of Ireland in Pretoria. “Patsimeredu produced a soundtrack for Shelea for the radio and since its launch a week ago, has generated a buzz of engagements both on radio and social media,” he said. Mphepo said over the years they had worked with about 120 schools across the country, in cities and towns like Harare, Bulawayo, Masvingo, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West and Mutare.
Josephine Baker is remembered by most people as the flamboyant African American entertainer who earned fame and fortune in Paris in the 1920s. Yet through much of her later life, Baker became a vocal opponent of segregation and discrimination, often initiating one-woman protests against racial injustice. In 1963, at the age of 57, Baker flew in from France, her adopted homeland, to appear before the largest audience in her career, the 250,000 gathered at the March on Washington. Wearing her uniform of the French Resistance, of which she was active in World War II, she was the only woman to address the audience. What she said appears below.
Friends and family…you know I have lived a long time and I have come a long way. And you must know now that what I did, I did originally for myself. Then later, as these things began happening to me, I wondered if they were happening to you, and then I knew they must be. And I knew that you had no way to defend yourselves, as I had.
And as I continued to do the things I did, and to say the things I said, they began to beat me. Not beat me, mind you, with a club—but you know, I have seen that done too—but they beat me with their pens, with their writings. And friends, that is much worse.
When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.
And I need not tell you that wonderful things happened to me there. Now I know that all you children don’t know who Josephine Baker is, but you ask Grandma and Grandpa and they will tell you. You know what they will say. “Why, she was a devil.” And you know something…why, they are right. I was too. I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America too.
But I must tell you, when I was young in Paris, strange things happened to me. And these things had
On June 7, 1966, New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy became one of the first major American politicians to take a public stand against South African Apartheid when he delivered an address to the National Union of South African Students in New York City. His address appears below.
I CAME HERE BECAUSE of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once imported slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. I refer, of course, to the United States of America.
This is a Day of Affirmation, a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom.
At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any Western society.
The first element of this individual liberty is the freedom of speech: the right to express and communicate ideas, to set oneself apart from the dumb beasts of field and fore t; to recall governments to their duties and obligations; above all, the right to affirm ones membership and allegiance to the body politic-to society-to the men with whom we share our land, our heritage, and our childrens future.
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape mens lives. Everything that makes mans life worthwhile--family, work, education, a place to rear ones children and a place to rest ones head-all this depends on decisions of government; all can be swept
The 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day comes during a big election year, with 65 major elections worldwide. Register, grab your friends and vote green.
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By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer Temperature and COVID-19 symptom checks like the ones used at schools and doctor's offices have again proved inadequate for spotting coronavirus infections and preventing outbreaks. A study of Marine recruits found that despite these measures and strict quarantines before they started training, the recruits spread the virus to others even though hardly any of them had symptoms. None of the infections were caught through symptom screening. The study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, has implications for colleges, prisons, meatpacking plants and other places that rely on this sort of […]
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Active from 1942 to 1970, the Christian Friends for Racial Equality (CFRE) was a locally founded leader in the Seattle civil rights movement. CFRE’s non-confrontational social methods for improving race relations made it Seattle’s largest civil rights organization in 1956, with 1,000 members by 1959.
CFRE’s social activities included monthly meetings with guest speakers, social teas and luncheons, folk dancing, and picnics. The Christian Friends’ more businesslike work included maintaining an office, publishing a monthly newsletter of civil rights news and membership updates, coordinating with other local civil rights groups (like the NAACP and the Seattle Urban League), contacting businesses and the government to encourage equity, running a speakers’ bureau, and working through churches and synagogues to promote racial equality. CFRE was especially active in the 1940s and 1950s with desegregating cemeteries, the “open housing” movement, and spurring government action to improve equality, all at the municipal and county levels.
Despite its name, CFRE was an ecumenical group that also included many Jewish members. Two-thirds of its membership and officers were women. CFRE members tended to be of middle age and older and were involved in other civil rights groups.
Given its non-confrontational, social approach, and its membership, it is not surprising that as the national civil rights movement evolved towards direct action and legal battles, and became increasingly driven by young people, that CFRE found difficulty attracting members and affecting change. Its last known records date from 1970; by that time, the group had slowly dwindled to obscurity.
Sources:
Johanna McClees [Phillips], Christian Friends for Racial Equality: A Unique Approach to Race and Religious Relations in Seattle 1942-1970, (B.A. Thesis, University of Washington, 2000), UW Manuscripts, University Archives and Special Collections, University of Washington Library, Seattle, Washington; David Wilma, “Christian Friends for Racial Equality,”
Bartech, a leader in global workforce solutions, is proud to announce that Detroit Public Television (DPTV) will broadcast a one hour documentary about the company’s founder, John W. Barfield. Based in part on his autobiography, “Starting From Scratch: The Humble Beginnings of a Two Billion-Dollar Enterprise,” the documentary follows the esteemed entrepreneur from his early life as the son of Alabama sharecroppers to his current position as a respected community leader and founder of one of the nation’s largest African American-owned businesses, Bartech.
Detroit Public TV will premiere “Starting From Scratch: The Remarkable Life of John W. Barfield” documentary on December 16 at 8:00 p.m. EST, launching a pledge drive to support DPTV. A team of volunteers from Bartech along with other members of our community are donating their talent and time to assist with this pledge drive.
“This documentary tells the story of how my father persevered through many obstacles and hardships to become a trailblazer in the minority business community and an inspiration to generations of young entrepreneurs,” said David W. Barfield, President and CEO of Bartech and son of John W. and Betty J. Barfield. “He and my mother are role models for anyone looking to build a successful business while keeping in mind the importance of contributing to society through reinvestment in our communities and improving the lives of those less fortunate.”
Narrated by Michigan native and actor Jeff Daniels, and produced by award-winning filmmaker Clara Wilkerson, the documentary uses a combination of interviews, archival photographs, film, reenactments and news headlines to depict John Barfield’s life from his birth in 1927, to his early entrepreneurial days selling newspapers and soap door-to-door, to opening his first business, the Barfield Cleaning Company, in 1955. Throughout the film, America’s social and economic history and its impact on the development of black businesses are featured prominently.
In 1977 John Barfield formed John Barfield &
The #SharingPositivity movement calls on South Africans to stand up against cyberbullying and online harassment.
YOUNG PEOPLE on Action for Climate Change, Jamaica are getting a group of stakeholders together for a virtual forum that takes stock of flood risk in a changing climate. The event, set for this Friday (November 6), is being held under the theme ‘...
Of all the couples who have been featured on Married at First Sight, there haven’t been many who have been more intriguing to follow than Shawniece Jackson and Jephte Pierre.
They appeared on the 2018 spin-off Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After preparing for a baby, not wearing their rings and attempting to fight for their marriage after depression, outside sexual relationships and heartache.
Despite the ups and downs, Shawniece and Jephte haven’t shied away from stepping in front of the camera and revealing the raw ups and downs of their relationship, critics be damned.
We caught up with them to see how they’ve navigated the struggles of working on their marriage in the public eye and how they don’t allow the outside opinions, including the many on social media, to keep them from doing things their way.
Shawniece, would you say keeping Laura’s best interests in mind and your shared love for her played a part in you sticking with your marriage after Jephte’s infidelity?
Vildana Muratovic, a native of Bosnia-Herzegovina and now a citizen of the United States, describes the impact of hip-hop music on the people of the Balkans following her 1997 return to Sarajevo. Her paper was written in 2007.
Since its humble beginnings in the 1970s to its present day multi-billion-dollar industry, hip-hop and rap have transformed the world of music and pop culture and come to represent the political and economic struggles of African Americans. What started as a rebellious artful expression, soon transformed itself to a capital-generating, culturally-transformative lifestyle which did not take long to reach the global scene.
Among the vast regions of the world that hip-hop has touched are the recently-war-torn Southeastern European nations. In the 1990s rap and hip-hop emerged as major tools that expressed the anger and outrage people felt towards the ethnic conflict which led to war and many economic setbacks. But it wasnt until 1997, when I visited my family back in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina that I realized the full impact hip-hop had on the Balkans. The way young members of the society used rap to deal with their impoverished situation as they tackled their socio-political challenges intrigued me. Despite this war torn nation’s protracted battle with the aftermath of economic depression, and political instability, urban youth still hoped for a better future. Rapping became an integral part of that expression and hope.
I was surprised that in one of my classes in Sarajevo, the first thing classmates asked of me when they found out I had lived in America was to help them translate one of Tupacs songs. They felt that they had much in common with this recently-deceased African American rapper. The large graffiti slogans, just one of hip-hops component elements, were painted onto bullet scarred walls and buildings left splattered with grenade remnants. Slogans such as Death to Chetniks! Welcome to Hell!, and even 2Pac for Life were visible throughout the city and gave me a sense
And I don’t know about your house but in mine, my mother, grandmother, and aunties had quite a bit to say when it came to love, dating, and relationships with men.
And recently, during an interview with Thembi Tv, of The Shade Room, Zonnique shared some of the relationship advice her mother, Tiny, gave to her.
Zonnique, like her mother, is currently in a relationship with a rapper.
In my relationship now, that has stuck with me because this is my first time every living with my boyfriend.
When asked how things are going living with Izzy, Zonnique said, “It’s actually not as hard—my auntie, my mom’s sister, always told me, ‘Never live with your boyfriend or your best friend.’
Born: 8/16/1955 Buffalo, New YorkCEO of McKinsey Social Initiative, a nonprofit organization that implements programs that bring together varied stakeholders to address complex global and social challenges. McKinsey Social Initiatives first program, Generation, addresses the problem of youth unemployment, with programs in five countries--India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, and the United States--and a goal of connecting one million young people with skills and jobs in five years.Business / Schooling: Awards / Achievements:
(ThyBlackMan.com) Voters between 18 and 29 made history in the 2020 election. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, or CIRCLE, at least 52 percent of them, and perhaps as many as 55 percent voted. That turnout is at least ten percentage points higher than in 2016, and the […]
Tracy Morgan surprised residents when he appeared at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new community center in Brooklyn. The event made the legendary comedian feel nostalgic about his own humble beginnings when he resided in the area as a child.
[AfricaFocus] \"The protest is for our lives, it's for our future. We want SARS to end but SARS is just the beginning. They should just wait for us. We're not quiet anymore.\" [This response appears] typical of the critical mass of protesters who are around 18-22 years old, are particularly fearless, and are protesting for the first time. - Ayodeji Rotinwa, Deputy Editor of African Arguments
Guion Guy Bluford, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 22, 1942. His mother Lolita was a special education teacher and his father, Guion Sr. was a mechanical engineer. The Blufords encouraged all four of their sons to work hard and set their goals high.
Guion attended Overbrook Senior High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hes been described as shy in his youth.
While there, a school counselor encouraged him to learn a trade, since he was not college material. Unlike other young African-American men of his time who were given similar advice, Guy ignored it and forged his own path. He graduated in 1960, and went on to excel in college.
He received a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1964. He enrolled in ROTC and attended flight school. He earn his wings in 1966. Assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, Guion Bluford flew 144 combat missions, 65 over North Vietnam. After his service, Guy spent five years as a flight instructor at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas.
Returning to school, Guion Bluford earned a master of science degree with distinction in aerospace engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1974, followed by a doctor of philosophy in aerospace engineering with a minor in laser physics from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1978.
That year, he learned he was the 35 astronaut candidates selected from a field of more 10,000 applicants. He entered NASAs training program and became an astronaut in August, 1979. He was in the same astronaut class as Ron McNair, the African-American astronaut who died in the Challenger explosion and Fred Gregory, who went on to become a NASA Deputy Administrator.
Guys first mission was STS-8 aboard the space shuttle Challenger, which launched from Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 30, 1983. This was Challenger’s third flight but the first mission with a night launch and night landing. It was also the eighth flight of any space shuttle,
W.E.B. DuBois once lauded Dantès Bellegarde as the International Spokesman of Black Folk for his active career as a Haitian diplomat, historian, and advocate for the ending of United States occupation of Haiti.
Louis-Dantès Bellegarde was born on May 18, 1877 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was raised in a poor mulatto family. His impoverished yet petite-bourgeoisie background descended from several figures in Haitian history; his maternal great-grandfather Jacques Ignace-Fresnal was an Army officer, Haitis first minister of justice, and the founder of Haitian Freemasonry. His paternal grandfather, General Jean-Louis Bellegarde, was a former Governor of Port-au-Prince.
Dantès Bellegarde was also a devout family man. In 1902, he married Cécile Savain, then a schoolteacher, and together they had seven children: Auguste, Argentine, Jeanne, Marie, Simon, Fernande, and Jean Bellegarde. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, a contemporary leading scholar in Haitian Studies, is the grandson of Dantès Bellegarde.
Bellegarde was educated in Haitian schools and gained a baccalaureate from Haitis Lycée Pétion in Letters and Sciences with top honors. Dantès Bellegarde was soon afterwards appointed as the Haitian minister to Paris in 1921. This was the beginning of an extensive international political career. His posts for the Haitian government included the Ministry of Education where he offered sweeping reformatory ideas for the Haitian educational system, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Public Instruction. Bellegardes dedication to the masses of Haitian citizens led him to criticize the United States military occupation of Haiti (1915-1933) at the League of Nations.
In 1921, Bellegarde became a key participant in the Second Pan-African Congress, forming lasting ties and relationships with other Pan-Africanists such as W.E.B. DuBois, Rayford Logan, and Jean Price-Mars. At the Fourth Pan-African Congress in 1931, Bellegarde presented a recommendation for an inter-dependent economic policy between the United
With some 300 uniforms collected in 2020, UniCycle Jamaica has hit its goal of collecting and distributing 1,000 gently worn khaki uniforms to students in need across the island. Unicycle Community Outreach Director Maria Greenland recently turned...
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In his years as a Howard University professor in the 1930s, Ralph J. Bunche subscribed to Marxist ideas. However by 1949 Bunche was Acting United Nations Mediator for Palestine and had become much more conservative. His then contemporary views were reflected in a commencement address given at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee on May 30, 1949. That speech is reprinted below.
In the brief remarks I will make you will understand that today I think exclusively of these young Negro men and women who are graduating, and of the great number like them who will be graduating from other institutions of higher learning in the coming two or three weeks. I have been puzzled no little about what to say to them on this great day in their lives, this milestone along their road of progress in life.
This is, or certainly should be, a joyous occasion. An occasion so joyous, indeed, that all the participants must wear black robes and somber hats to leaven the joy, to keep it from effervescing excessively and to afford at least a semblance of solemnity, academic dignity, and sobriety. Despite the black crepe and the mournful facade this is pure ritual, a cultural lag one is tempted to be light hearted, and gay and poetic, to play with words and music, and preserve the fanciful mood. But in this age time is short even for the young. The sands run fast. And in any case, my poetry would be doggerel and my music discordant. A wise man always sticks to his last.
Unless young graduates have changed radically since the day twenty two years ago when I first donned the academic gown, they have a number of things on their minds as they sit here. First, they are thinking of how they are going to celebrate when this final ritual is over or rather, continue the celebration, for unless I miss my guess, they began to celebrate as soon as it was certified that they would be sitting here today. And since there are undoubtedly timid souls amongst us, it would probably be tactful not to elaborate on the varied and even ingenious forms which
Octavia Butler was an award winning science fiction author. She was born in June 1947 in Pasadena, California to Octavia Margaret Guy and Laurice James Butler. She was raised by her mother and grandmother as her father passed away when she was very young. She grew up in a strict environment and was exposed to racial segregation from an early age. Her mother worked as a maid and Octavia would often accompany her to work, where was exposed to the harsh reality of how being black meant that her and her mother would have to suffer disrespect and mistreatment at the hands of whites. Octavia’s mother encouraged her to read and learn and often picked up discarded magazines for her daughter to read.
Octavia was a shy and socially awkward kid, which, combined with the fact that she was almost 6 feet tall, made her a frequent target of bullying at school. She was also marginally dyslexic which made it difficult for her to learn. She chose to spend a lot of time by herself, reading and writing at the public library near her house and enjoyed reading fairy tales and science fiction from popular magazines such as Amazing, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Galaxy. Her favorite authors were Zenna Henderson, John Brunner, and Theodore Sturgeon.
Her mother purchased a typewriter for her when she was 10 years old, on which she began to write her own stories. She graduated from John Muir High School and later attended Pasadena City College, taking nighttime classes. At college, she won a short story contest which awarded her prize money of $13, but it wasn’t until much later that she achieved commercial success. She worked in a series of temporary jobs so she could write at night, despite the fact that her mother insisted on her becoming a secretary in order to earn a steady income. She enrolled at California State University, but later transferred to UCLA, where she took writing courses. It was here that she gained recognition from one of the one of the Writers Guild teachers, who encouraged her to attend a six week
Former President Barack Obama contends that broad rallying cries like “defund the police” contributed to losses in the 2020 elections... View Article
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