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July 26, 2012

  • Study: Blacks Find Few Places to Get a Photo ID in the Rural South

    Study: Blacks Find Few Places to Get a Photo ID in the Rural South African Americans who live in rural areas of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia face significant challenges visiting department of motor vehicle (DMV) or county election offices to obtain state-issued photo-identification cards.

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  • African Union Elects First Woman Chairman

    African Union Elects First Woman Chairman by Frederick H. Lowe The African Union Commission, which is the administrative branch of the African Union, elected Dr. Nkosazana Clarise Dlamini-Zuma chairman at the organization’s meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethopia. Dr.

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  • Group Honors First R.I. Public School to Enroll Black Children

    Group Honors First R.I. Public School to Enroll Black Children The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society on Saturday will unveil a plaque at the former Meeting Street School, which in 1828 became the first public school in Rhode Island and one of the first in the nation to enroll African-American children as students.

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  • The NorthStar's Books

    The NorthStar's Books A Plaque And A New Biography Give Forgotten Black Opera Star An Encore by Frederick H.

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  • Big Cheese Supplier Eats Crow

    Leprino Foods Inc., a Denver-based federal food contractor, has agreed to pay $550,000 to more than 250 African- American, Hispanic and Asian individuals who were denied entry-level jobs at the company’s plant in Lemoore, Calif. The U.S.

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  • Foreclosures Hit Black Seniors Hardest

    Foreclosures Hit Black Seniors Hardest New America Media WASHINGTON, D.C.—The mortgage crisis has slammed every age group—especially the oldest Americans 75-plus -- and has hit Latino and African-American seniors and their families the hardest, according to a study being released by the Washington, D.

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  • Virginia Cops Fired After Expressing Desires to See Obama Dead

    RICHMOND, Va. (TriceEdneyWire.com) - Two White Richmond police officers have been fired for calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama during his campaign visit to the city in May.

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  • Olympics May Not Bear Out Promises

    Olympics May Not Bear Out Promises New America Media Three days of grassroots activism, petitions and popular pressure have resulted in a reversal of the British Olympic Association’s decision to deny press accreditation to The Voice, the UK’s only national, weekly newspaper for the black community. The Voice had been denied official media access to the Olympic Games, with organizers citing a lack of space, despite the presence of many black athletes on the British Olympic team, and despite the fact that roughly 700 press passes were set aside for UK media.

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  • 'God's Plan' to Kill?

    'God's Plan' to Kill? By Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com) - George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed Trayvon Martin, told Fox News personality Sean Hannity that the events that occurred on Feb. 26, 2012 were “God’s will.

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  • Usher's Stepson Dies; Funeral Services Scheduled

    Usher's Stepson Dies; Funeral Services Scheduled Willie A Watkins Funeral Home Inc. will hold a viewing on Thursday, July 26, for Singer Usher's 11-year-old stepson, Kile Glover, who died two weeks after an accident on a lake.

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  • Sherman Hemsley

    Sherman Hemsley Sherman Hemsley, who played George Jefferson on the popular television sitcom The Jeffersons, died on Tuesday at his home in El Paso, Texas. He was 74.

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  • Sylvia Woods

    Sylvia Woods Sylvia Woods, who co-founded Sylvia's restaurant in Harlem with her husband, Herbert Woods, in 1962, was remembered during a more than two-hour service on Tuesday at Abyssinian Baptist Church.

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  • The NorthStar’s Week in Black History

    The NorthStar’s Week in Black History July 26 through August 1 July 26 1916 ----- Born on this date in Richmond, Va., Spottiswood W. Robinson, III was an educator, civil-rights attorney, judge and the first black person to be appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

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President Hohn Evans Atta Mills

Ghana’s President Dies Suddenly

by Frederick H. Lowe
President John Mills of the Republic of Ghana died suddenly on Tuesday at a military hospital, where he was being treated for an undisclosed illness, Martey Newman, his chief of staff, announced on Ghana’s official portal.

“It is with a heavy heart and deep sorrow that we announce the sudden and untimely death of the President of the Republic of Ghana---his excellency, Professor John Atta Mills. The death occurred at the 37 Military Hospital this afternoon while receiving medical attention after being taken there a few hours earlier,” Newman said in a statement. President Mills had celebrated his 68th birthday on Saturday.Newman did not say what caused President Mills’ death.

President Barack Obama sent condolences to President Mills’ family and to the country.

"It was with great regret that I learned of the passing of President John Evans Atta Mills of Ghana. I will always remember my trip to Ghana in 2009, and the hospitality that President Mills and the people of Ghana showed to me, Michelle, Malia, Sasha and our entire delegation. I was also pleased to host President Mills in the Oval Office earlier this year," said President Obama. "President Mills worked tirelessly to improve the lives of the Ghanaian people. He helped promote economic growth in Ghana in the midst of challenging global circumstances and strengthened Ghana’s strong tradition of democracy."

Ghana's new President John Dramani Mahama
Ghana's new President John Dramani Mahama
John Dramani Mahama, Ghana’s 53-year-old vice president, was sworn in as the country’s president during a ceremony held in parliament.

Mills studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and received a Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

He traveled worldwide as a visiting lecturer and professor at educational institutions and presented research papers at symposiums and conferences. In 1971, he was named a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif.

He was a lecturer at the University of Ghana. In addition, he was a visiting professor at Temple University Law School in Philadelphia.  

Ghana, which is located along Africa’s West Coast, is one of the world’s leading producers of oil, cocoa and gold. Ghana's population is 25.2 million.

In honor of President Mills, The Africa Channel devoted its entire Tuesday night programming to his death. The Africa Channel also included in the special a recently taped interview with then Vice President John Mahama. The cable channel recently opened a bureau in Accra, Ghana's capital and largest city with 2.3 million people.

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