The Ghana National Council will mark Ghana’s 69th Independence Day with a flag raising ceremony in downtown Chicago, celebrating the nation’s rich heritage and the strength of the Ghanaian diaspora in the Midwest.
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The Fisherman premieres at 32nd New York Film Festival
Zoey Martinson’s feature film “The Fisherman” premiered at the New York African Film Festival and the Venice Biennale Film Festival, where it won the Fellini Medal, and follows the story of an aging fisherman struggling to adapt to modern society and technology.
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OP-ED: Pursuing Martin Luther King Jr.’s beloved community
According to Dr. King, the creation of a beloved community would require the American people to address three great evils of society: racism, poverty, and militarism. My friend and former colleague, the late John R. Lewis, arguably Dr. King’s most ardent disciple, often invoked the concept to buttress his calls for a “just society.” John was committed to the pursuit, but I always wondered if such were possible until recently.
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Ghana President Heralds Historic Agreement to Build A World-Class W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Complex
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Du Bois Memorial Centre in Accra where Dr. Du Bois and his wife, Shirley Graham Du Bois, are buried, opened to the public in 1985, but in recent years had required additional upkeep and maintenance. Two years ago, Rose and two board members of the foundation, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a professor at Harvard University and foremost scholar on Dr. Du Bois, and Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor at New York University whose father had worked with Dr. Du Bois, approached President Akufo-Addo about transforming the Du Bois Memorial Centre into a world-class living museum for scholars and heritage tourists.
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade – Africans Urged to ‘Come Home’
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I hear time and time again from black Americans who traveled to Africa about how connected they felt and how different they found whatever country they traveled to from the images of Africa they grew up with,” said Roman Debotch, owner/contributor of the site Black Excellence.
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Leads U.S. Reparations Bill H.R. 40
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I think if people begin to associate this legislation with what happened to the descendants of enslaved Africans as a human rights violation, the sordid past that violated the human rights of all of us who are descendants of enslaved Africans, I think that we can find common ground to pass this legislation,” said Congresswoman Jackson Lee in reference to H.R. 40, the reparations legislation that focuses on truth, racial healing, and transformation.
