Daily Archives: January 8, 2022

2022-01-08: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-08). Pioneering African-American actor Sidney Poitier dead at 94. wsws.org The Oscar-winning Sidney Poitier was one of the most popular leading actors in Hollywood in the 1960s at the height of the struggle for civil rights in the US.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-01-07). Legendary, Trailblazing Actor Sidney Poitier, Who Broke Hollywood's Color Barrier, Dies at 94. moguldom.com Legendary artist Sir Sidney Poitier, a trailblazing actor and generous humanitarian, died on Jan. 6, 2021. He was 94. His death was confirmed by Clint Watson, the press secretary for Bahamian Prime Minister Hon. Philip Davis. The first Black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, Poitier made history by breaking the color …

Editor (2022-01-07). A Seemingly Targeted Attack Puts George Floyd's Grand-Niece in the Hospital, Police Don't Come for Hours. scheerpost.com By Ezra Brain / Arianna Delane, the four-year-old grand-niece of George Floyd, was taken to the hospital in the early hours of New Years Day following what appears to be a targeted shooting. Early in the morning, a car pulled up outside her family home and began spraying bullets. Delane, who was asleep in her bed when she was shot, was hospitalized with a punctured lung and several broken ribs. | The exact perpetrators of the crime are currently unknown;…

Editor (2022-01-07). A Seemingly Targeted Attack Puts George Floyd's Grand-Niece in the Hospital, Police Don't Come for Hours. scheerpost.com By Ezra Brain / Arianna Delane, the four-year-old grand-niece of George Floyd, was taken to the hospital in the early hours of New Years Day following what appears to be a targeted shooting. Early in the morning, a car pulled up outside her family home and began spraying bullets. Delane, who was asleep in her bed when she was shot, was hospitalized with a punctured lung and several broken ribs. | The exact perpetrators of the crime are currently unknown;…

Ann Brown (2022-01-07). Top Reparations Scholar Dr. Sandy Darity Goes After HR40, NAARC And N'Cobra: Plans Won't Result In Pure Reparations. moguldom.com Many reparations plans are floating about. While the federal government is still debating HR40 — a proposed study of the feasibility of reparations — organizations such as American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS), National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), and The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'Cobra) have issued plans of their own …

sputniknews (2022-01-07). Three Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of Black Man Ahmaud Arbery. sputniknews.com A judge in the US state of Georgia has sentenced all three men found guilty of killing Ahmaud Arbery to life in prison.

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