NEW YORK (RNS) Tahanie Aboushi describes herself as “35, going on 50.” But friends disagree, calling her “bold” and “hilarious.” To survive the next four months, the civil rights attorney likely will need answer both those descriptions, and then some: Aboushi is one of eight candidates running to be the next district attorney of Manhattan.
To win, she will need to convince New Yorkers to vote for a first-time officeholder who would also be the country’s first hijab-wearing DA.
“Tahanie is New York personified. She is kind, humble, but also unbought and unbossed,” said Linda Sarsour, the Women’s March organizer and progressive icon, who is a childhood friend.
– Antwi Boasiako is a graduate of the University of Ghana
– The young graduate now works as a car wash at the Yaks and Sons Car Washing Bay in North Legon in Accra
– Boasiako graduated with a degree in Political Science with the Study of Religions
A young graduate of the University of Ghana, Antwi Boasiako, is a car wash at the Yaks and Sons Car Washing Bay in North Legon in Accra.
Boasiako, 27, ekes a living from washing vehicles despite graduating from Ghana’s premier university with second-class (Upper Division) in Political Science majoring in the Study of Religions.
Boasiako has been working as a car wash attendant for about five months because many application letters he sent to various institutions have not secured him a permanent job.
PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE Cressida Dixon is the first woman to be appointed Monroe County s public administrator. About three people die each week in Monroe County without a will to bestow their earthly possessions unto family or friends or charities. Many of them die as they lived poor, alone, and unseen. Yet their dying touches off a flurry of life in the office of the county public administrator, an obscure agency that manages estates when there is no one else to do so, often when the deceased leave behind no instructions on how to disperse their belongings or have no known heirs.
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Hilda Frimpong, a second-year law student at the Syracuse University College of Law, has been named as the new editor-in-chief of the Syracuse Law Review. Born in Ghana and raised in Dallas, Texas, 30-year-old Frimpong becomes the first Black person to hold the position.
The Syracuse Law Review, founded in 1949, is one of the prestigious student-run publications at the Syracuse University College of Law. “Its longstanding goal has been to provide distinguished scholarly works that address timely and intriguing issues within the legal community,” its website says.
Frimpong, who is a former Miss Ghana USA winner, will lead the Law Review for the 2021-22 academic year with a majority-female board. In an interview with