Morehouse College graduate, Gebre Peddie seemed overwhelmed by the proceedings held at Coney Island in tribute to ancestors by the People of the Sun Middle Passage Collective. Overwhelmed by the cultural calendar of June 8, 2024, Peddie witnessed for the first time, an annual that for 35 years provides ritualistic, spiritually, enlightening beachfront escape. On… Read More

COAMO, Puerto Rico (AP) — Towns in central and southern Puerto Rico are struggling to emerge from a prolonged power outage that forced authorities in the U.S. territory to activate an emergency response team on Monday and request food distribution to those in need. The outage occurred more than a week ago, leaving tens of… Read More

“The Battle for Laikipia” di Daphne Matziaraki e Peter Murimi, premio Asja per il miglior documentario, “The Feast” di Rishi Chandna, premio Smat per il miglior cortometraggio, e “Lonely Oaks 1250”di Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl e Jens Mühlhoff, premio del pubblico Iren, sono i trionfatori del 27° Festival CinemAmbiente, che si è chiuso domenica con… Read More

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) says it will host its Eighth Annual Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday, June 15, at Rockefeller Park at Chambers Street and River Terrace in lower Manhattan, featuring a “jam-packed lineup” of free activities, including storytelling, pony rides, music, arts and crafts and more for the whole family to enjoy. BPCA… Read More

Juneteenth books by various authors c.2024, The History Press / Chronicle Books $24.99 / $17.99 141 pages / 40 pages The park shelter has been reserved You’ve told everyone where to be and what to bring (Grandma’s favorite dessert!) and someone will set up games to occupy the kids. Your whole family celebrates Juneteenth, so… Read More

Brooklyn-based Guyana Cultural Association (GCA), organizers of the Annual Folk Festival Awards, is calling for nominations to honor persons who have made outstanding contributions in their community, to celebrate its 2024 ceremony. Co-chairs, Ave Brewster-Haynes and Verna Walcott-White, told Caribbean Life recently that the ceremony, set to take place during a weekend of events in… Read More

La rilevazione finale alle ore 23 sull’affluenza per le elezioni europee è stata del 52,11%; per le elezioni regionali del 50,37%. Si sono presentati ai seggi 347.628 elettori (166.018 maschi e 181.610 femmine) per le elezioni europee, 346.872 elettori (165.669 maschi e 181.203 femmine) per le elezioni regionali. Nelle elezioni europee del 2019 l’affluenza finale a Torino era stata del 60,95%. Nelle elezioni regionali del 2019 l’affluenza finale… Read More

Ecco alcuni numeri e curiosità su queste due giornate di voto. 667.150 sono i cittadini torinesi aventi diritto al voto per le elezioni europee, di questi 350.798 sono femmine e 316.352 maschi. Per le elezioni regionali il corpo elettorale è formato da 688.711 persone, suddiviso fra 360.195 femmine e 328.516 maschi. I torinesi che possono… Read More

La rilevazione alle ore 19 sull’affluenza per le elezioni europee è stata del 43,35%; per le elezioni regionali del 41,92%. La scorsa tornata elettorale per le elezioni europee e regionali si svolse in una sola giornata e pertanto non è possibile un raffronto. Alla seconda rilevazione delle ore 19 risultava aver votato il 45,63% degli elettori… Read More

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s newly selected prime minister, Garry Conille, was hospitalized late Saturday in the capital of Port-au-Prince just days after arriving in the country, the government said. It wasn’t immediately known why Conille was hospitalized. The office of the prime minister said in a statement that Conille was feeling slightly unwell “following… Read More