Ivy McGregor, of The Fountain of Praise church in Houston, announced Tuesday that the President of Ghana would be permanently mounting George Floyd’s name on a wall at the Diaspora African Forum in the W.E.B. Du Bois Center in Ghana. “The family of George Floyd would like to acknowledge the message of resolution and solidarity and visual…
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, said George Floyd’s “purpose and his assignment” is to bring justice to the US. She continued: “What I will say is that the assignment of George Floyd and the purpose will mean there will be no more 8:46 of police brutality,” a reference to the amount of time — 8 minutes…
Rev. Al Sharpton, speaking at George Floyd’s funeral in Houston, said the police officer who pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck must be held accountable. “Lives like George will not matter until somebody pays the cost for taking their lives,” Sharpton said, adding, “this was not just a tragedy. It was a crime.” “If four black…
Rev. Al Sharpton vowed to the keep the movement going in the memory of George Floyd. Sharpton described the legacy Floyd has left behind and the action his death has sparked across the globe. “You said you wanted to touch the world. Well, God had already made you for that. But you didn’t touch it in a basketball court or…
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reopened the online portal for the checking of the 2020 UTME results. The results which had earlier been made available only through SMS to 55019 have now been made available on JAMB’s website. If you have not been able to check yours via the Text/SMS method, you can…
The number of detected infections was 50,879 — the worst in Africa. However, South Africa ranks second in terms of deaths at 1,080 after Egypt. The continent’s most advanced economy has since May been gradually easing tight restrictions imposed in March. It is now allowing some school children to return to classes and the majority…
In Washington, Democratic lawmakers knelt in silent tribute to Floyd before unveiling a package of police reforms in response to the killing of black Americans by law enforcement. The move comes a day after the Minneapolis city council voted to dismantle and rebuild the police department in the Minnesota city where the 46-year-old Floyd died…
What appeared to be a peaceful protest took a turn overnight as law enforcement forces used flash bombs and what appeared to be a chemical agent to disperse a crowd of protesters gathered in Seattle. On a live video stream on Facebook, police could be heard warning protesters to disperse and leave the area. Shortly…
A picture of George Floyd has appeared in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem on the concrete wall built by Israel that separates it from the West Bank. Since it went up almost 20 years ago, a response to the violence of the second intifada, or armed uprising, the wall has become one of the world’s most…
K-pop behemoths BTS and their fans have donated $2 million to the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the band’s label and their fan fundraising group. Last Thursday, the South Korean boy band posted a tweet saying: “We stand against racial discrimination. We condemn violence, You, I and we all have the right to be…
