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Janila Jean said she was a 16-year-old virgin living in Jacmel, Haiti when a U.N. peacekeeper from Brazil raped her at gunpoint and left her pregnant. An Associated Press investigation of U.N. missions during the past 12 years found nearly 2,000 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers and other personnel around the world. More than 300 of the allegations involved children, but only a fraction of the alleged perpetrators served jail time.
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Restoring Trust in the Police
CBC Hearing Blasts Trump and Administration on Civil Rights
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On April 6, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) held a panel discussion called “Civil Rights Under the Trump Administration – The First 100 Days.” The panel consisted of civil rights leaders, activists and government officials. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the top Democrat on the House’s Committee on the Judiciary, said there is concern in the
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When the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent federal watch-dog agency, released its 2017 “High Risk List” of dysfunctional, inefficient, and wasteful programs, the 2020
“Census data are vital to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of a wide range of Listen to Afro’s “First Edition” civil rights laws and policies.”
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– Wade Henderson Decennial Census made the top three – out of a total of 34. The last 2010 Census was reportedly riddled with disorganization and badly managed overhead. The once-every-decade planning proved inept as the Bureau,
Conyers, considered the dean of the House because he is its longest tenured member, said to an audience of 35 people on Capitol Hill. “There are heightened national divisions and Continued on A3
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unable to creatively prepare for the tabulation of nearly 140 million households and missing the technology to do it, had to make an eleventhhour scramble for staff and resources. The result: a more than 30 percent cost overrun from the previous 2000 Census, more than $12 billion versus $9.4 billion, and the most expensive Census ever. Just counting one “housing unit” in 2010 cost $92 compared to only $16 in 1970. “The return of census questionnaires by mail (the primary mode of data collection) declined . . . from 78 percent in 1970 to 63 percent in 2010,” said the High Risk List report. “Declining mail response rates – a key indicator of a cost-effective census – are significant and lead to higher costs. This is because the Bureau sends enumerators to each non-responding household to obtain census data. As a result, nonresponse follow-up (NRFU) is the Bureau’s largest and most costly field operation.” However, the timing of the
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Comedian Charlie Murphy, Brother of Eddie Murphy, Dies at 57
Reduced Census Funding Could Lead to Unequal Representation By Charles D. Ellison Special to the AFRO
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country about the direction of the Trump administration’s civil and human rights policies. “Minority communities are justifiably concerned,”
Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said minority communities are justifiably concerned by Trump and his administration.
• Lawrence Lacks: My Side of the Story
report, say some observers in the civil rights community, could not be worse for Black communities. On the
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Charlie Murphy, older brother of Eddie Murphy and a comedy stand-up and performer in his own right, has died. Murphy died on April 12 in New York of leukemia, according to his representative, Domenick Nati. Murphy was 57. He was perhaps bestknown for his appearances on “Chappelle’s Show” on Comedy Central. He collaborated with writing his brother’s starring films
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Charlie Murphy, older brother of actor-comedian Eddie Murphy, died on April 12 of leukemia in New York. He was 57.
William T. Coleman, a civil rights pioneer in law and life, died on March 31 at the age of 96. In 1975 the AFRO wrote about Coleman’s attempts, as then U.S. Secretary of Transportation, to eliminate racial discrimination in his department.
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Coleman moving against Transportation Dept. bias July 5, 1975
By John W. Lewis Jr. NNPA Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- William T. Coleman Jr., secretary of transportation, has ordered his agency heads to come up with acceptable plans to eliminate employment discrimination in his 153,000-employee department. The plans, which he received the week of an NNPA interview, detail recommendations for gradually changing weak, equal opportunity policies which have resulted in the second worst minority employment record in the federal government. Flipping through a report from his
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department heads, the brilliant Harvard Law School graduate indicated that he expected them to come up with “results” or be “replaced with somebody else.” Continued on A3