(Alma Thomas, 1891-1978) Untitled, 1970. First published: December 1, 2014 About: (fragment from an article of HOLLAND COTTER in the New York Times of October 11, 2009)(…)Thomas was born in Columbus, Ga., in 1891, and moved to Washington in her teens. Her family settled in a house at 1530 15th St. N.W., and she lived there until her death in 1978. Her parents had relocated for two reasons: racial violence was on the rise in Georgia and Washington had excellent public schools. Thomas got a solid, though segregated, education, and taught art in…
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Nigeria’s Tobiloba Amusan ran a season’s best time of 12.47 seconds at Ostrava’s Golden Spike meeting on Tuesday, but it wasn’t fast enough to give her the number one position in the women’s hurdles event. Instead, Amusan’s strong rival, Olympic women’s 100m hurdles gold medalist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico, won the thrilling race in a blistering time of 12.42 seconds. Quinn finished ahead of Tia Jones of the United States, who clocked 12.44 seconds, while Amusan settled for the third position. 2019 world champion Nia Ali of the United States finished a distant fourth in 12.75 seconds at the…
The Los Angeles Pobladores, or “townspeople,” were a group of 44 settlers and four soldiers from Mexico who established the famed city on this day in 1781 in what is now California. The settlers came from various Spanish castes, with over half of the group being of African descent. SEE ALSO: Frederick Douglass Escaped From Slavery To Freedom On This Day in 1838 Governor of Las Californias, a Spanish-owned region, Felipe de Neve called on 11 families to help build the new city in the region by recruiting them from Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico. According to a census record taken at the time,…
The Netherlands and Namibia have formed a partnership to cooperate on green hydrogen infrastructure that will lead to new hydrogen supply chains from Lüderitz to Rotterdam and its hinterland. Courtesy of Port of Rotterdam Namely, the Port of Rotterdam, Gasunie, Invest International, the Government of the Republic of Namibia (GRN), Hyphen Hydrogen Energy, Namibian Ports Authority (NamPort) and NamPower signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to drive the delivery of what is described as sub-Saharan Africa’s largest, and only, fully vertically-integrated green hydrogen project. With this MoU, the three Dutch state-owned companies expressed their intention to underscore their commitment to…
Some 67% of hospitals in areas affected by fighting are closed, and several maternity hospitals are out of action, including Omdurman Hospital, the largest referral hospital in Sudan. Among the 11 million people in Sudan who need urgent health assistance are 2.64 million women and girls of reproductive age. Some 262 880 of them are pregnant and over 90 000 will give birth in the next three months. All of them need access to critical reproductive health services. Since April, when the fighting began, WHO has verified 46 attacks on health workers and facilities which have killed eight people…
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has pleaded with the British government to have mercy on the jailed former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. Ohanaeze made the appeal on Tuesday when it received the British Higher Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr Richard Montgomery, at the National Secretariat of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Enugu. The apex Igbo body stated that it accepted the pronouncement of the trial court that approved over 10 years in jail for the ex-lawmaker in the matter of organ harvesting against him, his wife and a medical doctor. Archbishop Emmanuel Chukwuma, who spoke on behalf of the Ohanaeze,…
Man United join Chelsea, Liverpool and Newcastle in monitoring Adama Bojang, with 18-year-old striker dubbed ‘The Gambian Hurricane’ attracting interest across EuropeBy Simon Jones for MailOnline Published: 08:35 EDT, 21 June 2023 | Updated: 19:14 EDT, 22 June 2023 Manchester United have joined Chelsea by checking on Gambia U20 international striker Adama Bojang, 19, from Steve Biko FC. There appears to be a four-way race developing for the signature of Gambian wonderkid Adama Bojang who has attracted interest from top Premier League clubs including Newcastle and Liverpool.Bojang, dubbed The Gambian Hurricane, has attracted interest from a plethora of European clubs including Serie A champions…
The word ‘maasai’ makes us think of Tanzania. Have you ever met the maasai people? It is an amazing cultural experience in Tanzania. For those who may not know, you may be asking, who are the maasai people?The maasai is a tribe found in East Africa. Specifically Kenya and Tanzania. The maasai people are so unique, in that they used to feed on the milk and blood of livestock cattle. Without killing the animals. Over the years they started to grow maize and cabbage too.The maasai have a very rich culture and tradition that many are curious to learn about.…
CNN — A fashion show that features elderly people as models is a rarity. One with elderly Black African models is even rarer. Perhaps that’s why Nigerian visual artist Malik Afegbua got so much attention from around the world when he posted images on social media last month showing seniors on a fashion runway, draped in stylish, colorful clothes. Titled “The Elders Series,” the images challenge stereotypes around how older people are perceived, as well as foregrounding African faces and bodies, which have often been at the periphery of the fashion world. “The inspiration behind (this series) was my mum,”…
In 1933, Noni Jabavu boarded a ship from East London to Cape Town to meet the couple who would become her caregivers in England. Despite attending Lovedale Girls’ School, a prestigious missionary-run institution in South Africa, it was decided that she would pursue the rest of her education in the imperial core, following the footsteps of her father, Professor Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (or DDT Jabavu), who had been educated at the University of London. At a rustic farmhouse in Claremont belonging to none other than General Jan Smuts, former Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, a 13-year-old…