Special To The Black Star News December 09,2019 0  Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are demanding that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) deny a patent extension requested by Gilead Sciences for a lifesaving HIV medicine, worth tens of billions of dollars, due to the pharmaceutical giant’s “deceitful and immoral” behavior. The lawmakers urge the government to instead allow the drug Descovy—used to both treat and prevent HIV—to be manufactured... | Special To The Black Star News December 09,2019 0  Friday, Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young (above) announced Tamika C. Gauvin as the new director for the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, effective December 17, 2019. Ms. Gauvin holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago and a Master’s in City Planning, City Development and Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She joins the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice after spending two years as Program Manager and... | Special To The Black Star News December 09,2019 0  The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission congratulates Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit (above) and the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) on a successful election victory and return to Government. Director General of the OECS, Dr. Didacus Jules, commended the people of the Commonwealth of Dominica for exercising their democratic right to chart their own destiny. “The people of the Commonwealth of Dominica have spoken and, for the fifth... |
Special To The Black Star News December 09,2019 0  Friday, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) voted to pass H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, critical legislation to restore the full strength of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), following the disastrous Supreme Court Shelby v. Holder decision, which gutted the VRA’s ability to combat voter suppression and discrimination. Since the Shelby v. Holder decision, at least 23 states have enacted voter suppression laws that encompass voter purges, strict ID... | Special To The Black Star News December 09,2019 0  New Jersey SEEDS, a nonprofit providing educational access to motivated, high-achieving students from low-income families, announced that Robin Oxendine and Calvin Millien ’08 have joined its Board of Trustees. Robin Oxendine obtained her M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and earned a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech. She started her career at Procter and Gamble (P&G), first as an engineer, and then in marketing... | Special To The Black Star News December 09,2019 0  President Magufuli. Emperor complex? Photo: Facebook Amidst growing authoritarianism and intolerance of dissent, Tanzanian President John Magufuli’s latest move takes away the ability of individuals and NGOs to file cases against the government in the African Court on Human and People’s Rights—continental court that Tanzania hosts. This is not only a grave threat to human rights in the country but also sends the wrong message to African governments and... |
By Carolyn Jenkins December 07,2019 0  Atlantic Towers. Photo: Carolyn Jenkins During a recent tenants' meeting held at Atlantic Plaza Towers in Brooklyn, Robert Nelson, the building's owner, announced withdrawal of his application submitted last summer to install the controversial biometric technology commonly known as "facial recognition." The 716 unit housing complex in the Ocean Hills section had rejected the plan; tenants organized... | Milton G. Allimadi December 06,2019 0  No justice for the doctor? Dr. Mahadeo outside the courthouse. Photo: Black Star News Dr. Robby Mahadeo claims a biased judge has wrongfully stripped him of parental rights and turned his divorce case, now entering its fifth year, into a cash cow for some lawyers. All told, Dr. Mahadeo has been billed a total of $403,000 in attorneys' fees. He's already paid off about $200,000 he says. Some attorneys have... |
Over the last few days, during this observance of the first anniversary of the execution of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, were now hearing chants of Weve got to fight back and We are ready for war.
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The Ebola crises in West Africa is another occasion where the whole world gets to see inept leadership in many African countries.
There have recently been many postings on social media critical of the United States for deploying military personnel and medical workers to West Africa in...
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