Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. September 23, 2017. Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles issues the following statement on the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria: “Hurricane Irma’s fury preceded Maria’s by a deadly Caribbean second. Together they constitute the familiar sound of death and destruction reminiscent of a colonial past that clings to the present and is determined to possess and own the Caribbean future.
By The Conversation — Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc in the region. The devastation in Dominica is “mind-boggling,” wrote the country’s prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, on Facebook just after midnight on September 19. The next day, in Puerto Rico, NPR reported via member station WRTU in San Juan that “Most of the island is without power…or water.” Among the Caribbean…
47th Annual Legislative Caucus of the Congressional Black Caucus, September 20 – September 23, 2017, Walter E Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Valuing Black Lives Summit Friday, September…
September 23, 2017 Post Update: Professor Verene Shepherd’s CBC, Washington D.C. speech available here Professor Verene Shepherd, Social Historian and Director of the Centre for Reparation Research at…
Cancellation Impacts Thousands of African and Caribbean Origins BALTIMORE – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the country’s original civil rights organization, today filed a lawsuit…
Press Advisory For Immediate Release September 18, 2017 Pan African Unity Dialogue to Launch STOP MUSEVENI CAMPAIGN PDF version available by clicking here. What: Press Conference When: September 19, 2017…
Topics: The Quest for Black Economic Empowerment, The Stop Museveni Campaign. Guests: Nataki Kambon, Spokesperson, Let’s Buy Black 365, Washington, D.C., John William Templeton, Co-Founder, Black Business Month, San Francisco, CA, Milton Allimadi, Editor/Publisher, Black Star News, New York, NY
Across the country families are getting wealthier, but rosy coverage of new census figures is hiding an alarming fact. By E.A. Crunden — New Census Bureau data shows an increasingly…
The median American income is up, but black Americans still aren’t getting their fair share. By Liz Posner, AlterNet — Here’s some good news and bad news about the economy….
Harvard Law Today — On September 5, at the opening of its Bicentennial observance, Harvard Law School unveiled a memorial to the enslaved people whose labor helped make possible the…
Topics — Like It Is: The Life and Legacy of Gil Noble, Crisis in the Congo and the Assault on the Daughter of Patrice Lumumba, The Quest for Democracy and Development in Africa. Guests — Chris Noble, Organizer, Tribute to Gil Noble, New York, NY, Kambale Musavuli, Spokesperson, Friends of the Congo, New York, NY, Sidique Wai, President and National Spokesperson, United African Congress
Participants in white supremacist violence are overwhelmingly young and predominantly male. By Daniel Keating, Salon — The white supremacist uprising in Charlottesville shocked the nation, which watched with horror the angry, racist…
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