Publication: BlackStar News

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Africans: Streets Abroad Aren't Paved With Gold

Continental Africans have not done a good job of revealing the realities of life overseas. Many times friends and family back on the motherland get a one-sided story about what really goes on in the lives of Black people in foreign lands. For example, ... [Published BlackStar News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Racism, Relativity, Prostitution

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

AILEY II 2013 SEASON: This Spring’s Delight

Jessica Lang's Isolation II. Photo: Pierre WachholderWhen the Alvin Ailey II Company invites you to their home at the Ailey Citigroup Theatre for this spring’s soiree-an evening of cherished performances, expect to savor the experience of a welcomed ... [Published BlackStar News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Alvin Ailey, Damon White, Amy Hall, Karl Jenkins

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

International Criminal Court

NO TO ICC: International Lawyers' Campaign Against International Criminal Court's Africa Recolonization Agenda

The Legal team shown includes, beginning second from left: Sylvester Kouadio,Esq, Minister Akbar Muhammad, Troy Griffith, Esq., Roger Wareham, Esq., David Commissiong, Esq.The International Criminal Court has made it its mission to depose African leaders ... [Published BlackStar News - May 24 2013]

Entities: International Criminal Court, Wareham (United States), Military Intervention, Côte d'Ivoire

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Michael Bloomberg

Stop-and-Frisk: Michael Bloomberg's And Ray Kelly's 'New Jim Crow'

This week, the Floyd v City of New York trial ended in much the same way it began: with the New York Police Department (NYPD) brass still lying about their racist police Stop-and-Frisk practice that is criminalizing and crippling the future of legions ... [Published BlackStar News - May 24 2013]

Entities: New York Police Department, Jim Crow, Crime, Michael Bloomberg, Shira Scheindlin

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

New York Police Department

Omotosho Seeks Council Seat As First Africa-born Member

'I wish to make my case for candidacy...' Dr. Omotosho's press conference. Photo: Asta Tall[Race For NY City Council 2013]Will Dr. Bola Omotosho make history by becoming the first African-born City-council member and also the first representing the Bronx’s ... [Published BlackStar News - May 23 2013]

Entities: New York Police Department, Ahmadou Diallo, Diane Foster

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Jordan Davis's Murder And "Ugly Black Male" Syndrome

Michael Dunn, a White gun collector shot and killed Jordan Davis, a Black teenager after complaining about loud music coming from the SUV Davis was in on November 23.Dunn reportedly fired eight shots into the vehicle outside a convenience store after ... [Published BlackStar News - May 23 2013]

Entities: Michael Dunn, Jordan Davis, Homicide, Jordan

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Jitu Weusi, Towering Black Empowerment Advocate, Dies

Jitu Weusi. Photo credit: Lawrence E J Rachell corenyc.org[Passings]Jitu Weusi, one of the founders of the Black United Front, an education advocate and a fixture in many of New York's political struggles to advance Black empowerment passed away this ... [Published BlackStar News - May 23 2013]

Entities: Advocate, Anti-Semitism, kidney cancer

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Celebrate: Louis Reyes Rivera And "Mama Fela" Barclift

Louis Reyes Rivera[African Liberation Month]Pan African Tribute to Cultural ChampionsDuring our African Liberation Month of May we will pay special tribute to two of Brooklyn's tremendous treasures; Fela Barclift, Director of theLittle Sun People and ... [Published BlackStar News - May 22 2013]

Entities: Fela Kuti, Brooklyn, NY, Teaching

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

With Ololade Siyonbola: Founder, Yoruba Cultural Institute

BSN: Tell us a bit about yourself and when and why you founded Yoruba Cultural Institute?Ololade: I was born in Nigeria and emigrated to the States as a seven year old after living in London for two years. My family did not speak Yoruba at home so I ... [Published BlackStar News - May 22 2013]

Entities: Yoruba, Nigeria, Emigration, Austria

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Please: At Least Allow Some Weeds To Grow First On Malcolm Shabazz's Grave

[Comment: Post-Shabazz Death]As the Fourth Estate, journalism incorporates numerous contrasting external appearances.The most popular and profitable of these forms are tabloid and yellow journalism and the least popular and profitable being advocacy and ... [Published BlackStar News - May 22 2013]

Entities: Malcolm Shabazz, Malcolm X, Boyce Watkins, Betty Shabazz, Black Diamond Group Ltd

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

'Muhoozi Project': By Installing Son, Gen. Museveni Hopes To Defer Prosecution

Gen. Museveni has been in power since 1985[Global: Africa]The underpinning reasons for the desire to choose Brigadier Muhoozi Kainerugaba as a successor to his father is the First Family’s survival strategy in a post-Museveni era in Uganda.To achieve ... [Published BlackStar News - May 21 2013]

Entities: Yoweri Museveni, Uganda, Cockroach, Luwero (Uganda), Crime

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Dr. Louis W. Sullivan Keynotes Howard Healthcare Symposium

Dr. Sullivan Keynote SpeakerDr. Louis W. Sullivan, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, is the keynote speaker for the 2013 Symposium on U.S. Healthcare at Howard University on Wednesday, April 10.Health professionals from across the nation ... [Published BlackStar News - May 20 2013]

Entities: Howard University, Health Care, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Association of American Medical Colleges

Quotes

...Weusi denied making anti-Semitic statements in a New York Times 1989 article and also told the newspaper that he had "repeatedly expressed regret, at meetings with Jewish groups, over his reading of" a poem in 1969, written by a student, that was denounced

Jitu Weusi, Towering Black Empowerment Advocate, Dies [Published BlackStar News - May 23 2013]

...said Jannette L Dates, Ph D , dean emerita of the Howard University School of Communications and chair of the Symposium Planning Committee. "Key to our mission of eliminating health disparities is increasing the number of minority health professionals that understand their communities' needs."

Dr. Louis W. Sullivan Keynotes Howard Healthcare Symposium [Published BlackStar News - May 20 2013]

...the ups and downs in the economy, like the European debt crisis and weak demand in the U S have hit investors, importers," Santa Cruz told CNN. "They are taking less risk, not increasing inventories [in Latin America] and just-in-time supplies become more relevant."

China sales to Latin America slow Good news for U.S. [Published BlackStar News - May 19 2013]

...In a statement the U S State Department said: "As we have stated on numerous occasions, freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are fundamental human rights and a critical component of democracy."

Uganda: No Woman Should Be Sexually Assaulted By Security Forces [Published BlackStar News - May 18 2013]

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