Pan-Africanism is the attempt to create a sense of brotherhood and collaboration among all people of African descent whether they lived inside or outside of Africa.
The Pan-African Congress gained the reputation as a peace maker for decolonization in Africa and in the West Indies.
The Pan-African Congress made significant advance for the Pan-African cause. One of the group’s major demands was to end colonial rule and racial discrimination. It stood against imperialism and it demanded human rights and equality of economic opportunity. The manifesto given by the Pan-African Congress included the political and economic demands of the Congress for a new world context of international cooperation.
The Pan-African Congress was a series of eight meetings, held in 1919 in Paris (1st Pan-African Congress), 1921 in London, Brussels and Paris (2nd Pan-African Congress), 1923 in London (3rd Pan-African Congress), 1927 in New York City (4th Pan-African Congress), 1945 in Manchester (5th Pan-African Congress), 1974 in Dar es Salaam (6th Pan-African Congress), 1994 in Kampala (7th Pan-African Congress), and 2014 in Johannesburg (8th Pan-African Congress) that were intended to address the issues facing Africa as a result of European colonization of most of the continent.
Doreen Lawrence later wrote that “the various groups that had taken an interest in Stephen’s death were tearing each other apart and were in danger of destroying our campaign, which we wanted to keep focused and dignified”.
Doreen and Neville Lawrence wrote to both the ANL and the ARA to demand that they “stop using Stephen’s name”
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overruled Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on the grounds that the substantive right to abortion was not “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history or tradition”, nor considered a right when the Due Process Clause was ratified in 1868, and was unknown in U.S. law until Roe. This view was disputed by some legal historians and criticized by the dissenting opinion, which argued that many other rights—contraception, interracial marriage, and same-sex marriage—did not exist when the Due Process Clause was ratified in 1868, and thus were unconstitutional by the Dobbs majority’s logic.
Strange how since the year 2010 Chukes Okoro / Chukemeka Okoro or his wife Lara Okoro have never once sued for the statement, Chukes Okoro did rape his cousin when she was a fourteen year old child and at the time he was a grown man. Indeed, Chukes Okoro and his wife have been suing everybody else. We know it is true.
There are some ‘black’ people who like to exploit ‘black’ works, without crediting ‘black’ people.
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He may believe that money makes you a better person.
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Chukemeka Okoro (Chukes) the computer scientist has pulled down all those pages purporting him to be a multimillionaire. I guess his days of fooling those waste-of-space fostercaresocial workers and the plebs of Leytonstone are well and truly over.
Chukemeka Okoro recently stepped in to admit it was him.
What are you going to do for me when the chips are down?
“Compliance is the only way to get our freedoms back. If you think that’s true, you are the problem.” The person who was telling them how to facilitate contact between a child and their mother was Chukemeka (Chukes) Okoro. The community kept on asking who is the person facilitating contact that way.
It was him. Okezie was found dead alone in his flat, have a guess who found him?
The liar’s punishment is not the least that he’s not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else ! Trull will always prevail !
Chukes is trolling me for years.
I changed my settings everywhere. Had I never changed my settings I would have seen my child when they needed me.
What this man has been trolling me on social media for over a decade. In the meantime, we will begin with Okezie, my father’s first son.
Life is full of many lessons Those who want to be God play at being God, but God sees.
They are skilled at trying to make you feel there is never a way out. Enough is enough.
Chukes (Chukemeka) Okoro was making a mockery of my pain. The man is an abuser. He uses social media to turn himself into some form of God. Some people refuse to fall for it.
Others see only money and fall for his stories proving they are just the same as him. You will never age well.
For Chukes Okoro it is all a sick game.
The computer programmer is currently running around deleting content which he can remember from the internet. The question is why?
Chukes Okoro is typical of the smaller developers the Baltimore Development Corp. has met with in recent months as it tries to improve its record of turning around dilapidated, city-owned real estate. If the strategies the BDC uses are successful, it could help the quasi-public agency shake off the perception that it’s a meddler in private real estate and bolster its credentials as a helper (By Kevin Litten – Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal, Feb 13, 2015).
Okoro Development Revitalizes West Side of Downtown Baltimore With Team Of Minority Professionals
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member,
Before London native Chukes Okoro traveled to the states for a job opportunity, he expected America to be full of opportunity.
In England, he felt that there was an unbreakable glass ceiling preventing him and other minorities from pursuing their ambitions. In the United States– as far as he knew– the only color anyone cared about was green.
He quickly learned this was not the case, but was determined to open doors for other minorities to follow.
When Okoro arrived in 1998, he worked as a computer programmer in Connecticut, but he quickly learned that the tech industry wasn’t for him. He moved to Maryland a year later and decided his next career would be in property development.
“I fell into real estate because when I was in England, I renovated my first house, and I kind of thought to myself, I’ll do the same,” said Okoro. “The process of renovating a house or property was kind of similar to the steps you take in building a computer program. I used the project management skills that I learned in computer programming and transferred them to developing.”
He founded his Baltimore-based firm, Okoro Development, in 2003 and decided early on that he would only go after vacant properties because he was familiar with the city’s vibrant history and wanted to restore its beauty.
Okoro began with renovating row houses in Baltimore’s Reservoir Hill. Then, in 2007, he moved into the westside of Downtown Baltimore and began responding to requests for proposals (RFPs) from the Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC). The organization works to grow the city’s economy by retaining, expanding and attracting businesses and promoting investment.
This allowed him to expand from developing strictly residential properties to including commercial properties.
Most recently, he renovated a derelict vacant commercial building on the 100th block of W. Lexington Street. Okuro took the six-story dilapidated building and turned the top five floors into 15 apartments. The project started in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and was completed in April.
“When you see a building that’s transformed it kind of just makes you happy to be living in that location or to be part of that city,” said Okoro. “It just gives a sense of pride, and it kind of gives a sense of hope that you’re in a place where better days are on their way.”
Access to funding is critical to developers’ success, including Okoro, particularly because it’s not possible to self-fund their projects. Fortunately, Harbor Bank of Maryland, the state’s only Black-owned and -managed commercial bank, has supported Okoro for nearly eight years.
With the bank’s backing, Okoro has been able to consistently overcome the challenges that often come with construction without jeopardizing his projects.
Okoro intentionally chose to work with a minority-owned bank, and with each of his projects, he also ensures that he is generating opportunity for marginalized and underserved groups. Each project he’s completed on the Westside of Downtown has been with 100 percent minority participation.
He’s worked with Black female architects and electricians, Black engineers, and minority trades people. When developing commercial properties, Okoro also aims to lease space to minority businesses that are typically denied by other landlords in the Downtown Baltimore area.
Recently, Okoro even started National Development Partners, a company that coaches minority developers on starting and growing a business.
Throughout his nearly 20 years in business Okoro believes the secret to his success is always getting the job done. If he starts a project, he finishes it no matter what obstacles arise.
However, his success cannot just be attributed to his drive. His team of Black and minority professionals that support his vision and desire to revitalize Baltimore are what makes Okoro Development’s work so impactful.
Because opportunity is seldom provided to minority groups, Okoro and his ecosystem of Black professionals have learned to join forces to create a better, more beautiful, Baltimore for Black residents.
Okoro Development has destroyed two lives the body count could be higher. Who knows what else he has done?
Mark never lived to tell the tale. Mark was Okezie’s good friend they went to college together. Mark never needed to follow anybody on social media to construct his feelings about Okezie.
Okoro Development stated he doesn’t care for the words of a dead man. Fair enough.
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By Shirley Lynn Holtvoight, 7 December 2022.
I still believe Donald Trump was the best President we ever had Since Regan.
Donald Trump was able to make Europe pay its fair share. He kept the word of past Presidents and moved the Our Israel Embassy. He changed the Johnson law that hurt Churches. He funded black colleges. Donald Trump helped get the bill passed to support troubled youth get employment. The former President also kept North Korea at bay and stopped the nuclear threat.
He opened up oil and put people to work. He personally gave assistance using his own funds, to Americans who suffered from the tornado disaster.
Donald Trump also made the simple politicians understand that they were destroying America’s prosperity. He donated every paycheck he earned as President.
Do you understand he also donated every check he earned as a president right back to America where it was needed? He kept his word to the voters who voted for him. I will still vote for him I couldn’t give a damn what anyone thinks.
To understand volunteerism you must first understand love.
Today the powers that be force teens to volunteer 40 hrs or so in order to gain a high school diploma. Just like a marriage contract, marriage license and other statutory interventions into matters of the heart, I think it is unwise to force anyone to volunteer.
Including parolees forced to do community service or spend even more time in prison. Volunteerism should always be just that, VOLUNTARY.
If you force someone to volunteer, is that not called conscription?
Black residents of Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish have long accused the Sheriff’s Office of targeting them. A new video, which shows a deputy slamming a Black woman’s head into the ground, raises more questions.
Center for Policing Equity collects data and helps law enforcement agencies identify ways to improve their relationship with the communities they serve.
— Read on www.policingequity.org/
Government of the people by the people for the people. There can never be government by the people if they are ignorant of the issues to be resolved, the arguments for and against different solutions and the facts underlying those arguments. Nevertheless, there can be no assurance that government is carried out for the people unless the facts are made known, the issues publicly ventilated.
STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS,NELSON MANDELA, AT HIS INAUGURATION AS PRESIDENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, UNION BUILDINGS, PRETORIA, MAY 10 1994
Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Distinguished Guests, Comrades and Friends:
Today, all of us do, by our presence here, and by our celebrations in other parts of our country and the world,confer glory and hope to newborn liberty.
Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul and sustain all our hopes for a gloriouslife for all.
In the United States, a governor serves as the chief executive officer and commander-in-chief in each of the fifty states and in the five permanently inhabited territories, functioning as both head of state and head of government therein. As such, governors are responsible for implementing state laws and overseeing the operation of the state executive branch. As state leaders, governors advance and pursue new and revised policies and programs using a variety of tools, among them executive orders, executive budgets, and legislative proposals and vetoes. Governors carry out their management and leadership responsibilities and objectives with the support and assistance of department and agency heads, many of whom they are empowered to appoint. A majority of governors have the authority to appoint state court judges as well, in most cases from a list of names submitted by a nominations committee.
This chapter first describes the emergence of consciousness-raising, including differences among women. It then discusses collective identity, explaining the concept and describing activists’ attempts to reconstruct collective identity as women and to determine how to practice their collective identity in daily life. Next, it discusses coming out and other forms of visibility politics, which aim to display collective identity and change conceptualizations of the group and its issues. Finally, the chapter explains the controversies and debates over identity politics and describe some of its contemporary manifestations. Identity politics” refers to organizing around the specific experience or perspective of a given group and to organizing that has identity visibility as a goal. Identity politics has, from its beginning, grappled with the question of differences within each identity group. For women’s movements, questions of the intersections between gender and race, class, sexuality, and other dimensions have been fundamental. Identity politics is often dismissed as divisive. In contrast, this chapter focuses on its origins and development in terms of intersectional feminist theory and the construction of collective identity, conceptualizing it as a social movement practice. To understand the breadth of identity and visibility organizing by women, the chapter discusses a range of women’s movements, not just those that identify as feminist. Aimed less at policy and law than at culture and subjectivity,
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. – Robert F Kennedy
“I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality,” he said. “Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice.
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