admin | June 16, 2021
Atlanta, USA and Cape Town, South Africa Black Women Disrupt the Web (BWDW) and kweliTV, the on-demand and live video streaming network, have partnered for the July showcase of the BWDW web series competition.
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admin | June 16, 2021
Last year, Madisons Mustapha Drammeh and friends set out on a campaign to feed over 300 families in three regions in The Gambia in just under just 90 days during the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, they have started a campaign and a GoFundMe to revitalize the urban infrastructure and to transform Brikama Nema into a model city for development in the West Coast region of the Gambia by 2025
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admin | June 16, 2021
By VERNON ROBISON The Progress Overton artist Nick Yamashita (right) and Las Vegas artist Gig Depio pose for a photo next to Soaring a mixed media work by Yamashita which is currently on exhibit at the Las Vegas City Hall Chamber Gallery until July 15. The work of a local artist is front-and-center in a special art exhibit in the Chamber Gallery at Las Vegas City Hall.
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admin | June 16, 2021
In my age group people went abroad or to Dublin to come out. Most people went to London
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admin | June 16, 2021
AFRICA This article briefly notes some of the challenges and opportunities wrought by this pandemic on higher education in Africa. The pandemic has spared virtually no institution in the world. However, the impact on low-income countries as in most countries in Africa, where precarious institutions are prevalent has been rather severe.
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admin | June 16, 2021
The Beyond the Return programme will partner with the local diaspora community to plant trees in support of the Green Ghana project. The initiative, championed by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources and the Forestry Commission, would see five million trees planted across Ghana. The project is to help protect watersheds, reduce erosion and moderate the climate, and serve as habitat and provide food for many birds and other wildlife.
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admin | June 16, 2021
The Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is hosting a day of events exploring African American cultural traditions to commemorate Juneteenth, the holiday marking the dayJune 19, 1865that Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and freed enslaved African Americans there some two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The holiday is part of a tradition of festivals commemorating the end of slavery, African American contributions to American life and freedom itself. The museums virtual programming and new educational resources can be found on its Juneteenth webpage.
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admin | June 16, 2021
In response to the recent conflict in Israel and Palestine, theres been a rise in Islamophobia and antisemitism in America. Many Jewish organizations in the United States are reporting an increase in antisemitic rhetoric, incidencesand attacks.On the other hand, there are also rising concernsthat criticisms of the Israeli government are unfairly being equated with antisemitism.
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admin | June 16, 2021
(The Center Square) Two Ohio state representatives want to create a new bureau of law enforcement to deal with what they say is an increase in hate crimes across the state. Reps.
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admin | June 16, 2021
U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, said Tuesday that recent reports of him making a donation to a Holocaust-denying pastor are false
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