From the monthly archives: October 2011
Judges for the $5 million Ibrahim prize for African leadership have found a winner ending a two year freeze on the coveted award. Pedro Verona Pires, ex-president of the small island state of Cape Verde, off the coast of West Africa, was selected for stepping down promptly at the end of this term [...]
By David Axe, Wired Washington, D. C., 15 October 2011: It’s taken years of determined lobbying by international aid groups, but the Pentagon is finally deploying 100 combat troops to do battle with Ugandan cult leader Joseph Kony and his brutal Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group in Central Africa. “These forces will act [...]
A federal appeals court last week blocked certain key provisions of Alabama’s anti-immigrant law while the constitutionality of the law is under determination. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit enjoined two provisions of the law that went into effect following a federal district court’s decision in Alabama. The injunction suspends these two [...]
By George Barnette Special to the NNPA from the AFRO-American newspaper People of all hues came from all over to pay tribute to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the only one on the mall for someone other than an American president. Charles Arterson and Baron Lewis who say they marched with Dr. King, [...]
By Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press 16 October 11:Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation’s capital. But Cain’s economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes [...]
At the regular meeting of the Greene County Board of Education on October 13, Kayla Dixon with TCU Consulting Services gave board members a brief run-down on when construction would start and end on the new high school on U. S. 11 South. The tentative schedule is to begin construction in January of [...]
The Greene County Tigers football team and their supporters are getting ready for the Homecoming parade and game on Friday, October 21. The Tigers, with a 4-2 season (losing only to Linden and Bibb County) say they plan on beating Jemison (Chilton County). Homecoming celebrations begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, [...]
Collins Pettaway, Jr. of Selma has announced that he is a candidate for the Office of Circuit Judge, Place 1, 4th Judicial Circuit. This circuit includes Dallas, Perry, Hale, Bibb and Wilcox counties. “I have practiced law in almost every courthouse in the State of Alabama, before every Appellate Court in this state and every [...]
Special to the NNPA from the AFRO-American newspapers Former Harvard University law professor and civil rights activist Derrick Bell died Oct. 5 from carcinoid cancer. He was 80. “From his work on the front-lines of legal argument in the civil rights movement to his path breaking teaching and scholarship on civil rights and racial justice [...]
By Denise Rolark Barnes Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Civil rights icon, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth has died, leaving few remaining living leaders of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Shuttlesworth was co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He passed away on Oct. 5, at Princeton Baptist Medical Center, [...]
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