By Isaiah Peters and Dawn Suggs, Word in Black Ukraine continues its heroic homeland defense against Russia’s accelerating invasion to purportedly ‘rid the state of Nazis.’ More than 1.3 million refugees have evacuated their homes and fled the country to escape Russia’s indiscriminate bombardment throughout the country. Black Ukrainians and Africans living in Ukraine are […]
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Ukrainian-Americans rely on faith as the invasion continues
By JASMINE BOYKIN, Capital News Service Baltimore -The St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church is holding daily services to support the Ukrainian people and have received an outpour of love from the American community. Help us Continue to tell OUR Story and join the AFRO family as a member – subscribers are now members! Join here!
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NWSA Condemns the Attack on the People of Ukraine
Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Special to the AFRO The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) takes seriously our charge to never be silent in the face of evil. We understand that we do not have the luxury to sit by while countries are attacked, war is being waged, and women and children are being killed. One […]
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Donna Storey taps into the power, history of waistbeads
By Nadine Matthews, Special to the AFRO Donna Storey’s waist bead journey began as a result of her weight loss journey. The Baltimore native, entrepreneur and author of “Waistbeads and Western Society: A Sisterhood…” told the AFRO, “It started off with me wanting to lose weight and needing a way to gauge when I was […]
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Ethiopia starts partial power generation from Blue Nile dam
The Associated Press Ethiopia has started generating electricity from the controversial mega-dam that is being built on the Blue Nile. The milestone was reached on the morning of Feb. 20 when one of the 13 turbines of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam started power generation in an event officiated by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. “From […]
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West Africa grapples with new wave of military coups
By Sam Mednick and Krista LarsonThe Associated Press It’s a pattern becoming all too common again in West Africa: Mutinous soldiers detain a president, then seize control of the state broadcaster to announce they’ve taken over the country. International condemnation quickly follows, but the junta remains in power.West Africa’s new wave of coups kicked off […]
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Carl Murphy in the Community: Behind the man who made the news
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. and Digital Editor mgreen@afro.com Carl Murphy may have only stood 5 feet and 3 inches, but he was a giant in the community. The longtime famed AFRO publisher who took his father and the publication’s founder John H. Murphy’s journal that was circulated to about 14,000 to a major newspaper […]
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Pope on COVID vaccines says health care a ‘moral obligation’
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Pope Francis suggested Monday that getting vaccinated against the coronavirus was a “moral obligation” and denounced how people had been swayed by “baseless information” to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives during the pandemic. Francis used some of his strongest words yet calling for people to […]
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Meghan suit nets 1 pound on privacy, secret copyright sum
By DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Sussex will receive a nominal 1-pound ($1.35) payment for invasion of privacy plus undisclosed damages for copyright infringement, under an agreement that ends her long-running dispute with Britain’s Mail on Sunday over the tabloid’s publication of a letter she wrote to her father. The […]
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In Africa, rescuing the languages that Western tech ignores
By Matt O’Brien and Chinedu Asadu Associated Press Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, so long as you speak English or another of the world’s dominant languages. But try talking to your phone in […]
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Commentary: Remembering Desmond Mpilo Tutu
By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO Of all the many assignments Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu was entrusted to handle on this earth – outspoken opponent of the South African Apartheid system; dedicated advocate of non-violent resistance; Nobel Peace Prize Recipient; principled defender of justice for all people – it was Tutu’s work in chairing the […]
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U.N. says 22 million Ethiopians will need food aid in 2022
By The Associated Press An estimated 22 million Ethiopians will require humanitarian assistance in 2022, according to a United Nations report. Ethiopia’s already high humanitarian needs are expected to rise in the coming year due to the ongoing conflict, drought, flooding, disease outbreaks and locust infestation, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs […]
