- Ukraine war casts a shadow over Vladimir Putin’s summit with African leaders Financial Times
- Russia wants allies, so it’s hosting an Africa summit. Food security and Wagner group top the agenda Yahoo News
- Russia Hails New ‘World Order Taking Shape’ as Putin Prepares Africa Summit Newsweek
- Mondli Makhanya | Moscow’s sad African circus – Putin’s the ringmaster, so who are the clowns? | City Press News24
- The Russia-Africa summit is coming, but Putin barely invests in the continent while the mercenary Wagner Group rages across the countryside Fortune
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Putin, Zelenskyy agree to meet with ‘African leaders’ peace mission,’ says South Africa president – The Associated Press
- Putin, Zelenskyy agree to meet with ‘African leaders’ peace mission,’ says South Africa president The Associated Press
- South African army general in Moscow days after country accused of sending weapons to Russia FRANCE 24 English
- South Africa admits US claims that arms were shipped to Russia ‘still stand’ Fox News
- Cyril Ramaphosa | South Africa will not take sides in a contest between global powers News24
- OPINION | Lumko Mtimde: #LadyRussiagate – Is the US looking for scarecrows to offset fear of Russia? News24
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Sub-Saharan African countries repatriating citizens from Tunisia after ‘shocking’ statements from country’s president – CNN
- Sub-Saharan African countries repatriating citizens from Tunisia after ‘shocking’ statements from country’s president CNN
- Sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia living in ‘climate of fear’ after surge in racist attacks FRANCE 24 English
- Sub-Saharan Africans desperate to leave Tunisia after attacks Al Jazeera English
- Hate speech against Black Africans in Tunisia spreads on social media Middle East Eye
- Hundreds of West African migrants flee Tunisia after President Saied’s controversial crackdown FRANCE 24 English
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Sub-Saharan African countries repatriating citizens from Tunisia after ‘shocking’ statements from country’s president – CNN
- Sub-Saharan African countries repatriating citizens from Tunisia after ‘shocking’ statements from country’s president CNN
- Hundreds of students fly home from Tunisia after attacks Africanews English
- Tunisian President Targets Sub-Saharan African Migrants, Mob Violence Follows The Wall Street Journal
- Rally in support of sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia is held in front of the Tunisian embassy in Paris Middle East Eye
- Sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia living in ‘climate of fear’ after surge in racist attacks FRANCE 24 English
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South Africa drills with Russia, China could signify failed Washington efforts to solidify African allies – Yahoo News
- South Africa drills with Russia, China could signify failed Washington efforts to solidify African allies Yahoo News
- Eye on Africa – South Africa’s navy stages controversial exercises with China, Russia FRANCE 24 English
- South Africa Criticized for Naval Exercise With Russia and China The Wall Street Journal
- Russia to test hypersonic missile in drills with China, South Africa – a first for an international exercise Fox News
- Russia to test new hypersonic missile in drills with China and South Africa The Associated Press – en Español
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South Africa drills with Russia, China could signify failed Washington efforts to solidify African allies – Fox News
- South Africa drills with Russia, China could signify failed Washington efforts to solidify African allies Fox News
- South Africa Criticized for Naval Exercise With Russia and China The Wall Street Journal
- Eye on Africa – South Africa’s navy stages controversial exercises with China, Russia FRANCE 24 English
- Exercise Mosi II: Gungubele defends military drills with Russia, China despite broad condemnation News24
- Russia to test hypersonic missile in drills with China, South Africa – a first for an international exercise Fox News
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DeSantis says Florida requires African American history. Advocates say the state is failing that mandate – CNN
- DeSantis says Florida requires African American history. Advocates say the state is failing that mandate CNN
- Afro Latino educators scorn Florida governor’s dissection of African American studies course Yahoo News
- ‘We’re sorry’: After member called Gov. DeSantis racist, Miami board leader apologizes Miami Herald
- Stop the Black attack | Opinion – Sun Sentinel South Florida Sun Sentinel
- Conservatives angry about school ‘indoctrination’ are telling on themselves The Guardian
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Florida Democrat agrees with DeSantis on AP African American history course: ‘I think it’s trash’
Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor, a Black Democrat, agreed with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, R., last week that a proposed AP African American history course that was rejected by the state’s Department of Education constitutes propaganda rather than a legitimate educational curriculum. DeSantis blocked the course on grounds that it violated the Sunshine State’s Stop WOKE Act that was passed last year.
“I think it’s trash,” Proctor said about the curriculum.
“There is grave concern about the tone and the tenor of leadership’s voice from the highest spaces in our state being hostile to teaching of African American history,” he noted.
DESANTIS SAYS FLORIDA WILL CUT FUNDING TO ALL CRT, DEI PROGRAMS: ‘WITHER ON THE VINE’
Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis after taking the oath of office waves to those in attendance at his second term inauguration in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. January 3, 2023.
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“Well frankly I’m against the College Board’s curriculum. I think it’s trash. It’s not African American history. It is ideology,” Proctor continued.
“I’ve taught African American history, I’ve structured syllabuses for African American history. I am African American history. And talking about ‘queer’ and ‘feminism’ and all of that for the struggle for freedom and equality and justice has not been no tension with queerness and feminist thought at all,” he argued.
COURTING DESANTIS: THESE GROUPS ARE TRYING TO CONVINCE FLORIDA’S GOVERNOR TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT
Opponents of an academic doctrine known as Critical Race Theory attend a packed Loudoun County School board meeting until the meeting erupted into chaos and two people were detained, in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S. June 22, 2021.
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Critics of critical race theory argue that it is embedded in Marxism, demoralizes Black students by making them feel as though success is unattainable, and villainize White students as inherently racist and the beneficiaries of an oppressive system.
DeSantis has been a frequent opponent of CRT and has utilized the power of his office to expunge it from school curriculums, colleges, and government agencies throughout his tenure.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans Tuesday to permanently eliminate COVID-19 mandates in Florida during the upcoming legislative session.
(Ron DeSantis via Twitter)
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DeSantis won re-election in the 2022 midterm elections by a whopping 19.4 percent margin and is seen by many as a potential 2024 presidential candidate.
‘White’ federal workers would no longer include Middle Eastern, North African heritage under new Biden plan
The Biden administration is proposing a change to the way it collects data on federal workers that would allow employees to identify themselves as of Middle Eastern or North African descent, instead of identifying themselves as “White.”
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Thursday announced a series of proposed changes to the race/ethnicity data that it has kept since 1977. The OMB said changes are warranted because people’s preferences relating to how they identify themselves have changed.
The OMB said in its proposal that there have been “large societal, political, economic, and demographic shifts in the United States throughout this period,” citing the following examples: increasing racial and ethnic diversity; a growing number of people who identify as more than one race or ethnicity; and changing immigration and migration patterns.
PENTAGON PROMOTES CRITICAL RACE THEORY, GENDER IDENTITY ‘INSANITY’: GOP REPORT
The Biden-Harris administration is proposing changes to the way race/ethnicity data is collected on federal workers.
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One of those changes would affect current language that requires people to identify themselves as “White” if they have “origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.” But the OMB’s proposed change said many are requesting a new category separate from White people of European descent.
“Presenters advocated for the Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) population to be recognized and respected by becoming a new and distinct minimum reporting category because, for example, many in the MENA community do not share the same lived experience as White people with European ancestry, do not identify as White, and are not perceived as White by others,” the OMB’s proposal said.
The OMB also said a new “MENA” category would “recognize this community.”
HOUSE VOTES TO SHIELD FEDERAL WORKERS FROM TRUMP 2.0 ‘DRAIN THE SWAMP’ PLAN
The Office of Management and Budget, headed by Shalanda Young, is proposing changes to the way data is collected on the race and ethnicity of federal workers. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
The goal of the government’s data collection effort is to “ensure the comparability of race and ethnicity across Federal datasets and to maximize the quality of that data by ensuring that the format, language, and procedures for collecting the data are consistent and based on rigorous evidence.”
The OMB proposed other changes to the way the data is collected and presented, including by seeking out race and ethnicity information in a single question. It said many people confuse the two terms and proposed a question that asks for federal workers’ “race or ethnicity.”
DEMOCRATS SCRAMBLE TO PROTECT FEDERAL WORKERS AHEAD OF MIDTERMS, POSSIBLE TRUMP RETURN IN 2024
President Biden’s administration is looking to give federal workers more options when it comes to identifying their racial and ethnic background.
The OMB proposed several other wording changes, such as replacing “Far East” with “East Asian” from the definition of “Asian,” and ending use of the terms “majority” and “minority.”
The OMB said those last two terms “may be perceived by some as pejorative and not inclusive.”
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The proposal is not final, and the OMB is seeking public input on these ideas through mid-April.
Backlash grows against DeSantis decision to block AP African American Studies class
The state Department of Education contends that the class is “inexplicably contrary to Florida law.” A new education law championed by DeSantis requires lessons on race be taught in “an objective matter” and “not used to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view.” Some education advocates and teachers say the law is so broadly framed that it is having a chilling effect on the teaching of Black history.
“If he does not negotiate with the College Board to allow AP African American Studies to be taught in classrooms across the state of Florida, these three young people will be the lead plaintiffs in a historic lawsuit,” Crump said before he introduced the students.
Crump has been involved in several high-profile civil rights cases involving Black Americans and vowed that DeSantis “cannot exterminate our culture.”
The latest controversy in Florida education policies began this month, when the DeSantis administration said a pilot Advanced Placement course on Black history would not be approved by the state Department of Education because it violated state law and “lacks educational value.”
The state Education Department listed “concerns” in the curriculum, including topics covering “Intersectionality and Activism,” “Black Feminist Literary Theory” and “Black Queer Studies.”
“Now who would say that an important part of Black history is queer theory?” DeSantis said at a news conference this week. “That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids.”
But critics of the governor, who has made eliminating what he calls “woke indoctrination” from schools and businesses a key part of his platform, say he is unfairly targeting Black history by not allowing the course to be taught in Florida. Other Advanced Placement classes, such as European history, have not been scrutinized by the DeSantis administration.
The College Board said in a news release Tuesday that the “official framework” of the course will be released Feb. 1, replacing the pilot program and incorporating feedback from high schools and colleges. It does not mention input from public officials.
A College Board spokesman declined to comment on whether the curriculum was being adjusted in light of the DeSantis administration’s concerns. AP classes take two to six years to develop, according to the board, and “are regularly reviewed thereafter.”
Alex Lanfranconi, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Education, said in a statement that the administration is “encouraged to see the College Board express a willingness to amend.” He added that the state will reconsider approving the class after examining the new curriculum.
“We look forward to reviewing the College Board’s changes and expect the removal of content on Critical Race Theory, Black Queer Studies, Intersectionality, and other topics that violate our law,” Lanfranconi said.
Meanwhile, dozens gathered at a “Stop the Black Attack” rally in Tallahassee organized by Equal Ground, a voting rights advocacy group. Several speakers accused DeSantis of trying to further marginalize the state’s Black community during his time in office. State Sen. Shevrin Jones (D) said DeSantis should be addressing issues such as “crumbling schools, dilapidated buildings in our communities” and high property insurance costs.
“These are the issues that‘s being ignored because we have to deal with the promotion of Jim Crow 3.0 by people who don’t know and don’t care about what’s happening in Black communities, but they desire to referee how you teach our history,” Jones said.
DeSantis has said he wants students to learn Black history — and by law, they are required to — but accused teachers of indoctrinating students to believe a “woke ideology.”
Leaders with the state legislature’s Black caucus are planning to engage with national civil rights organizations to put together additional educational opportunities around Black history so that students “will not have to wait on a state or governor to see the value in their history,” the lawmakers said in a statement this week.
State Rep. Michele Rayner (D) said that DeSantis is on a political “witch hunt” and violating Florida students’ freedom to learn — and that students are aware.
“They know that the erasure of history is not a secret,” Rayner said. “There are 2.8 million students sitting in Florida public schools right now knowing that their governor does not want them to learn about Black history.”