Pan African Global Trade and Investment Conference prepares for AgTech Innovation Hub
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2018-09-29
The 8th Annual Pan African Global Trade and Investment Conference is poised to help prepare the launch of our California's AgTech innovation hub $10 million dollar startup fund…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/26/18817829.php
Whitewashing Black Voter Suppression
Bill Fried | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-28
"The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist." — Charles Baudelaire In 2016, according to the Sentencing Project, over 7.4 percent of the adult African American population was disenfranchised; four times the rate for non-African Americans. In Florida, one in five adult blacks is not allowed to vote.
counterpunch.org/2018/09/28/whitewashing-black-voter-suppression/
Correcting the record on China and Africa
Ian Goodrum | peoplesworld.org | 2018-09-28
peoplesworld.org/article/correcting-the-record-on-china-and-africa/
When Africans Cheered John Bolton: Criminals on the ICC
Thomas Mountain | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-28
When US National Security Advisor John "The Walrus" Bolton threatened the International Criminal Court with US Sanctions many of us here in Africa cheered, long having given up hope that the ICC would ever be held to even the slightest account, least of all for its crimes against our continent. The Peoples Indictment against the…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/28/when-africans-cheered-john-bolton-criminals-on-the-icc/
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-09-28
A national stoppage of Ghana's 4,000 tanker drivers was called off by the unions barely 24 hours after an initial strike call.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/28/labo-s28.html
US-Funded Report Illuminates Enormous South Sudan Death Toll But Leaves America's Role in the Dark
Whitney Webb | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-28
The recently published, U.S.-financed report on South Sudan's brutal conflict is just another dramatic illustration of how the U.S. publicly laments violence it has helped to create and perpetuate while obfuscating the sordid legacy of its foreign interventions. | A new … | The post US-Funded Report Illuminates Enormous South Sudan Death Toll But Leaves America's Role in the Dark ap…
globalresearch.ca/us-funded-report-illuminates-enormous-south-sudan-death-toll-but-leaves-americas-role-in-the-dark/5655436
Australia: Commemoration rally held for youth killed in racist attack
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-09-27
Liep Gony's mother is clearly alarmed at the renewed government-media campaign scapegoating of youth of African origin.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/27/liep-s27.html
Trump's Africa
Roz Chast | thenation.com | 2018-09-25
Trump's Africa appeared first on The Nation.
thenation.com/article/trumps-africa/
Dr. Barbara Ransby: What the Defamation of Anita Hill Can Teach Us About the Kavanaugh Hearings
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-24
News that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford will testify Thursday against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh has prompted many to warn senators not to repeat the mistakes of the Anita Hill hearings of 1991, when Hill was questioned by an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee over her allegations that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her in the workplace. In the weeks after Hill testified, nearly 1,600 black feminists organized as "African American Women in Defense of Ourselves" and signed a manifesto published in an advertisement in The New York Times. We speak with histo…
www.democracynow.org/2018/9/24/dr_barbara_ransby_what_the_defamation
'Racially profiled & humiliated': Black candidate busted for dealing politics seeks apology
RT | rt.com | 2018-09-22
An African-American nominee for the Wisconsin State Assembly told RT that she felt hurt and humiliated after being racially profiled and reported to cops as she was canvassing her electorate in a predominantly white neighborhood.
rt.com/usa/439143-humiliated-degraded-wisconsin-candidate/