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Friday Night Music, June 19: The White Queen of Soul, Dusty Springfield, “The Look of Love”

• June 19, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Dusty Springfield, Film, Memoir, Music, Sexuality
Tags: "Casino Royale", "Dusty in Memphis", "I Only Want to Be with You", "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", Black Fillmore, Boob Tube, Burt Bacharach, California, Dusty Springfield, Geary Street, Hal David, Ian Fleming, Ike and Tina Turner, James Bond, Marilyn Monroe, MUNI, Orchestrations, S.F. Muni Railway, San Francisco, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Sex, The British Invasion, The Fillmore, The Four Seasons, The Oscars, The S.F. Municipal Railway

Officer Stephen Johns’ Funeral in Fort Washington Today

• June 19, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Class, Crime, Hate Crimes, History, Race
Tags: Anne Frank, Emmett Till, Farewell, Fort Washington, Funeral, Hero, Holocaust Survivors, Janet Langhorne Cohen, Michigan, Paying Respects, Rep. John Conyers, Stephen Johns Jr., Stephen Tyrone Johns, The Smithsonian, The Wackenhut Corporation, The Washington Post, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, William S. Cohen, Zakiah Johns

Black Teen Squirted with Gasoline, Set Ablaze

• June 19, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Crime, Hate Crimes, History, Race
Tags: Gasoline, Hate Crime, Ku Klux Klan, Lynching, Missouri, Poplar Bluff High School, Poplar Bluff MO, St. Louis, Uppity, Walter Currie, Walter Currie Jr., Walter Currie Sr., White Supremacist, White Supremacy

Drummer Clyde Stubblefield Suffers Kidney Failure; Needs a Kidney Transplant

• June 19, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Health, Music
Tags: "Funky Drummer", Bootsy Collins, Clyde Stubblefield, Drummer, Funk Drummer, Funk Drumming, Funksters, James Brown, John "Jabo" Starks, Kidney Failure, Kidney Transplant, Maceo Parker, Madison WI

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Asian American Voters Rallied for Democrats in 2020. Will They Again? August 13, 2022
The party confronts a mood of frustration among the rising electoral force that helped vault it to power. The campaign in Georgia will test that bond.
Idaho Supreme Court Rules That Strict Abortion Ban Can Take Effect August 14, 2022
In a late Friday ruling, the state’s highest court said that a ban could begin at the end of the month while legal challenges are reviewed.
Southern Baptist Convention Says It Faces Federal Investigation for Sexual Abuse August 13, 2022
Church leaders disclosed that multiple Southern Baptist entities were under investigation and said that all would cooperate.
Detective Expected to Plead Guilty Over Warrant in Breonna Taylor Raid August 12, 2022
Kelly Goodlett, who helped apply for a warrant for the fatal raid, would be the first officer convicted in the case.
Driver Kills 1 and Injures 17 at Pennsylvania Benefit, Then Kills Another, Police Say August 14, 2022
A fund-raiser following a fire that killed 10 people on Aug. 5 descended into chaos when a car crashed into the crowd. The driver then killed a woman in a nearby town, the police said.
What to Watch in Hawaii’s primary elections. August 14, 2022
There are competitive races for governor and a House seat in this blue state, where the Democratic primaries are likely to determine who wins in November.
U.S. Says Al Qaeda Has Not Regrouped in Afghanistan August 14, 2022
A new intelligence assessment of the Al Qaeda threat was prepared after a drone strike killed Ayman al-Zawahri, the group’s leader. But some outside counterterrorism specialists said it was overly optimistic.
What’s That Sound? It’s Likely a Meteor Over Salt Lake City. August 13, 2022
The loud boom left many wondering if it was thunder or an earthquake Saturday morning. But the National Weather Service says a meteor is to blame.

The Guardian, UK

Mali’s prime minister, Choguel Maïga, ‘ordered to rest’ by doctor August 13, 2022
Politician’s office says move comes after ‘intense exertion’, while adviser denies reports of a strokeThe prime minister of Mali, Choguel Maïga, has been ordered by his doctor to rest after months of intense exertion, his office said on Saturday, while an adviser denied media reports that he had been hospitalised after having a stroke.“After 14 months of wor […]
Kenya presidential election: Raila Odinga slightly ahead in early results August 13, 2022
Odinga has 52.54% of the vote against 46.76% for William Ruto, as country waits for final countKenya’s one-time opposition leader Raila Odinga is slightly ahead in the race for the presidency against the incumbent deputy president, William Ruto, partial official results showed.Odinga has 52.54% of the vote against 46.76% for Ruto, according to figures issued […]
Count for Kenya’s presidential election enters fourth day August 12, 2022
Head of election commission blames slow progress on political parties treating process like a ‘forensic audit’Kenya’s election count has dragged into its fourth day, after an election this week that pitted former prime minister Raila Odinga against the deputy president, William Ruto.On Friday, the head of Kenya’s election commission blamed the slow progress […]
Blinken raises concerns over Hotel Rwanda dissident trial with Kagame August 11, 2022
US secretary of state on last stop of African tour has been clear about US misgivings related to Paul Rusesabagina’s convictionThe US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has raised US concerns about the trial of the jailed dissident Paul Rusesabagina with Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, and other senior Rwandan officials during a visit to the capital Kigal […]
Sierra Leone rocked by deadly violence at cost of living protests August 11, 2022
Six police officers and at least 21 civilians killed, as hundreds take to streets in frustration at economic hardship and rising pricesAt least 27 people have died in anti-government protests in Sierra Leone, police and other sources said on Thursday, sharply raising the death toll from the previous day’s clashes as shocked citizens stayed mostly behind clos […]
Kenya elections: Raila Odinga and William Ruto in tight race for president August 10, 2022
Analysts say result too close to call, with poor turnout amid cost of living crisis and soaring unemploymentKenya’s veteran opposition politician Raila Odinga and the deputy president, William Ruto, are locked in a tight race for the country’s highest office, according to early results from Tuesday’s election.National media updates put Ruto in the lead, at r […]
Colombian government and ELN rebels meet in Havana to restart peace talks August 12, 2022
Government pledges ‘judicial and political steps’ to enable talks to resume with nation’s last guerrillas broken off three years agoColombia’s new government and members of the nation’s last guerrilla group have taken steps towards restarting peace talks that were suspended three years ago in Cuba.Newly elected President Gustavo Petro, a former member of the […]
Mexico prison cartel clash spills on to streets of border city leaving 11 dead August 12, 2022
Four radio station employees among dead as alleged gang members rampaged through Ciudad JuárezA prison confrontation between members of two rival cartels spilled on to the streets of the border city Ciudad Juárez, where alleged gang members have killed nine more people, including four employees of a radio station.The violence began on Thursday, when Los Chap […]

The BBC

Salman Rushdie off ventilator and able to talk August 14, 2022
The Satanic Verses author was repeatedly stabbed while on stage at a US literary event on Friday.
Ukraine war: Zelensky warns Russian soldiers at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant August 14, 2022
President Zelensky says soldiers who shoot at the Zaporizhzhia plant will become "a special target".
Western Wall: Several injured in Jerusalem shooting August 14, 2022
Israeli police are treating the incident near the Western Wall as a suspected terror attack.
Afghanistan: Taliban fire shots to stop Afghan women's Kabul protest August 14, 2022
Dozens of female protesters in Afghanistan have been on a rare march for their rights in Kabul.
Britney Spears' ex-husband Jason Alexander convicted over crashing wedding August 13, 2022
Jason Alexander is convicted of trespassing and battery after disrupting the ceremony in June.
Bangladesh fuel prices: 'I might start begging in the street' August 14, 2022
Inflation and the Ukraine war lead to 50% jump in costs.
Tijuana rocked by wave of violent crime August 14, 2022
Thousands of troops have been sent to the border city after a night of arson saw highways blocked.
Ukraine says it has taken out vital bridge in occupied Kherson August 13, 2022
Ukrainian forces attacked the bridge as part of its counter-offensive in the occupied Kherson region.