ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — On Sunday (December 26), South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his death in a statement, saying, “The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa.”
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IN MEMORIAM: World Dignitaries React to Death of Bishop Desmond Tutu
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Archbishop Desmond Tutu was a mentor, a friend, and a moral compass for me and so many others,” former U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement. “A universal spirit, Archbishop Tutu was grounded in the struggle for liberation and justice in his own country, but also concerned with injustice everywhere. He never lost his impish sense of humor and willingness to find humanity in his adversaries, and Michelle and I will miss him dearly.”
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PRESS ROOM: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Commits $922 Million to Advance Global Nutrition to Help Women and Children
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Accelerated investments in nutrition, food systems, and health systems must be a pillar of both the immediate and longer-term phases of the COVID-19 response. Recent impact modeling data predicts that without immediate action, there will be an additional 283,000 malnutrition-related deaths in children under 5 over the next three years, and 13.6 million more children under 5 will be wasted (underweight for their height) over the same period. As a result, we stand to lose a decade or more of progress on nutrition.
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Utterly Sickening: Treatment of Haitians at Mexican Border Sparks Outrage
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This is cruelty. It’s evil… What I saw today was slave patrol — it is shameful and absolutely disgraceful,” said Patrice Lawrence, co-Director of the UndocuBlack Network, during a September 20 appearance on Roland Martin Unfiltered. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus gathered at a reception on the night of September 20 at the National Observatory to celebrate the CBC’s 50th anniversary. Though the reception took place at the Vice President’s residence there wasn’t a lengthy discussion on the crisis at the border. But members are asking for an investigation into what they saw on video.
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Gates Foundation’s Annual Goalkeepers Report Finds Stark Disparities in COVID-19 Impacts
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Organizations are committed to helping. There is a genuine commitment, even at the United Nations when we take stock of what we are doing, there is a genuine interest in what we’re doing,” Olufunke Olufon, the senior communications officer of Global Communications and Engagement for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA).
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Hiding in Plain Sight, a 30-Year-Old Hijacking Mystery Solved on 9/11
NNPA NEWSWIRE — I sat there. In hand was my notebook containing facts about a man named Patrick Dolan Critton who hijacked an airplane 30 years prior. American Justice had finally caught up with Critton and — until the events of this day — his story would be as big as any. Now, it is just a footnote on the history of that day. A terror mastermind named Osama bin Laden, who lived a cloak and dagger life more than 6,700 miles away in Afghanistan and escaping U.S. forces by living from cave to cave and underground bunker to underground bunker, had stolen Critton’s frontpage.
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PRESS ROOM: Shining A Spotlight On Resistance Among Young African Women
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The #SudanWomenProtest, which began in 2019, targeted the leadership of Omar al Bashir (former Sudan head of state). Thousands of women united in rejecting policies that gave credence to sexist and discriminatory laws. The revolt was a shock to many despite the years of resistance from Sudanese women. Social media provided them with a platform to spread their message abroad, resulting in an overthrow of the Bashir regime.
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PRESS ROOM: Black Women’s Voices Take Center Stage at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the United States, there are more than 600,000 to 800,000 people being trafficked annually across international borders and 40% percent of sex trafficking victims are Black women and girls. The panelists discussed the vulnerabilities of Black female trafficking victims, gaps in services and public policy, and the historical context of the oversexualization of Black females dating back to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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OP-ED: Atrocities in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The United States acknowledges the February 26 statements from the Ethiopian Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs promising unhindered humanitarian access, welcoming international support for investigations into human rights violations and abuses and committing to full accountability. The international community needs to work collectively to ensure that these commitments are realized.
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PRESS ROOM: From Pandemic to Peace: Join World Leaders and 1 Million+ Global Participants for the 5th Rally of Hope Online
NNPA NEWSWIRE — With global challenges such as COVID-19, poverty and inequality, race relations, international security, and global economic downturn, what can we do to facilitate meaningful change in our lives, families, communities and the world?
