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Grondahl: Albany city leaders talk frankly about race
Sheehan, Ellis, others say community s reckoning is painful, ongoing and necessary
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ALBANY – Mayor Kathy Sheehan’s heartbreaking moment of acknowledging white supremacy occurred when her son, who is adopted and Black, came home from preschool and repeated what a white child told him, “It’s bad to be Black.”
Common Council President Corey Ellis, who is Black, experienced racist policing in 2007 when a white cop followed his Lexus with its Ellis11 license plates for 2 miles along Lark Street and Delaware Avenue before he stopped Ellis for no apparent reason other than, he believes, driving while Black.
In 1994 the ANC didn t want to win the election in W Cape - Rev Alan Boesak
3 May 2021 1:13 PM
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Lester Kiewit chats to Rev Alan Boesak about the history of the mass democratic movement and struggle in the Western Cape.
On the new Morning review with Lester Kiewit, he hosts In The Chair each week - an interview with people whose opinions matter and people whose decisions have an impact on your city, your country, or even the world.
This week Lester chats to Alan Boesak. a reverend in the Dutch Reformed Church, an anti-apartheid stalwart, a professor of theology, a former politician, a two-time premier candidate, author, and more.
We do not know how many LGBTQ people are violently attacked or murdered in South Africa each year in homophobic or transphobic hate crimes. The South African Police Service (SAPS) does not keep statistics on hate crimes, and even if it did, many homophobic and transphobic hate crimes would not be classified as such because of the reluctance of the authorities to acknowledge the homophobic and transphobic motivation behind many of these attacks. (Similarly, authorities seem to be reluctant to acknowledge that attacks on many foreigners are fuelled by xenophobia.)
We do know that several LGBTQ individuals have been brutally murdered over the past few weeks because some news outlets have reported on at least some of these murders. The victims include Bonang Gaele, Nonhlanhla Kunene, Sphamandla Khoza, Nathaniel “SpokGoane” Mbele, Andile “Lulu” Nthuthela, Lonwabo Jack, Buhle Phoswa and Lucky Kleinboy Motshabi. These murders sparked nationwide protests from some members of the
Late Brother’s Pizza owner is honored after being denied street renaming
Updated May 01, 2021;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Sunlight spilled through the windows of the Brother’s Pizza dining room as staff ladled pinwheels of sauce on dough and sliced bubbling, hot Sicilian pies into squares.
It was a typical Saturday afternoon in Port Richmond with which the late Bart Giove, one of Brother’s founders, would be familiar. Except on this particular afternoon, neighbors and state Sen. Diane J. Savino visited the parlor to memorialize the business owner and present his family with a New York State proclamation.