Angela Stanton-King has overcome being separated from her newborn daughter after giving birth in prison and re-entering society without a job or income. Now she has a new set of challenges as a black Republican running in an urban Democratic stronghold. The 53-year-old hopes to unseat the popular civil rights icon John Lewis, 80, who has represented Georgia’s 5th Congressional District since 1986. The seat was also held by former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young in the 1970s, and has only been in Republican hands three times since the district was established in 1827. Stanton-King said she knows defeating Lewis is…
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Ecuador, one of the hardest-hit countries in the region, is starting to reopen after a 40-day country-wide lockdown and transition to social distancing. There are more than 38,000 cases and 5,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, according to the latest official figures. Ecuadorian Minister of the Interior María Paula Romo speaks to press in the Province of Cotopaxi, Ecuador on October 11, 2018. (Public Domain)Interior Minister María Paula Romo said prior to the decision to transition in May to social distancing that the government planned to reactivate the economy through sectors like construction. The country’s key exports—bananas, roses and shrimp, as well…
Washington — Thousands marched and protested against police brutality in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, keeping the May 25 death of George Floyd on the White House’s collective mind by demanding the city defund its police force. Just one person was arrested, according to the Washington Metropolitan Police Department. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser designed a city block near the executive mansion as “Black Lives Matter Plaza”; protesters added the words “=Defund the police” in bright yellow paint. Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, is charged with killing Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, during an arrest in Minneapolis. Rioting there began less…
OLYMPIA, Washington—Protesters who marched Tuesday in Olympia, Washington remained peaceful but made their feelings about law enforcement plain, chanting on the steps of the state capitol that Americans who wear law-enforcement badges are “bastards.” “A-C-A-B! All cops are bastards!” the call-and-response went. Others yelled “No Trump! No KKK! No fascist USA!” Activists have demonstrated daily since May 25 in a sprawling variety of U.S. cities, angry at the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Police officer Derek Chauvin was videotaped kneeling on Floyd’s neck during his arrest. He is charged with second and third degree murder. Three other officers who…
Months before President Donald Trump signed his May 28 executive order targeting social media platforms, the White House and members of the Trump family were debating how to battle the tech giants. In an interview with Zenger News on February 28, the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., raised some of the arguments used against Google and Twitter—months before the president’s announcement and executive order. Due to technical difficulties the video was not released until now. Twitter, Google and others should lose federal protections, Trump Jr. said then, if they discriminate against conservatives by censoring, flagging, demonetizing or de-emphasizing their…
As Hindu nationalism rises in India, the country’s Muslims are being targeted. Danish Ali was returning home from a local missionary trip when a Hindu mob tried to burn the 21-year old alive. His beard half burned, the police stopped the intended petrol bath a month ago, but have kept Ali in isolation ever since. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expanded Hindu nationalist policies for months, which frequently have sharpened the growing division between Hindus and Muslims. Now, Muslims are facing increased attacks after members of an Islamic missionary group, Tablighi Jamaat and of which Ali is a member, tested…
Social isolation in Brazil, a highly social culture, is changing how citizens buy and sell products.
For the past 5 years, Laura Flores and Jazmin Elizondo fought for their union to be accepted, and after insults, threats, lawsuits and lots of patience, they find it hard to believe that their struggle is over. The two met in 2014 in Flores’ restaurant. Elizondo was saving money to move to Mexico, and Flores allowed her to live in one of the restaurant’s rooms until she had enough money to move.Their relationship grew. Flores discovered that, thanks to a clerical error, Elizondo was wrongly registered as male when she was born. The mistake was never corrected as she grew…
In the last few decades, millions of unskilled workers from South Asia have migrated to Gulf countries due to limited opportunities at home. But the flow of money from those workers back home might dry up, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Remittances to South Asia are expected to decline sharply, by 22 percent to $109 billion this year, according to the World Bank. “The deceleration is driven by the global economic slowdown due to the coronavirus outbreak as well as oil price declines,” according to a World Bank report. Afghan and Pakistani officials attend a press conference ahead of the…
JAKARTA, Indonesia—The tug-of-war as to who calls the shots during the coronavirus outbreak is raging not only in the United States. In Indonesia, President Joko Widodo and the provincial governors too are engaged in a similar turf war. But while it is states’ governors and not President Donald Trump who have the final say in imposing and ending lockdowns and “shelter in place” orders in the U.S., in Indonesia, Widodo makes the call, which has the governors of the 34 provinces in the country up in arms. This fight for supremacy has brought matters to a boiling point between the…