admin | May 8, 2021
After 106 years, President Joe Biden became the first U.S. president to recognize the atrocities committed against the Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, using the word genocide for the first time since President Ronald Regan. The 1915 Armenian Genocide, known as the first modern-day genocide of the 20th century, was an orchestrated crime against humanity in an attempt to annihilate the Armenian people as the Turkish Ottoman Empire massacred 1.5 million Armenian lives.
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admin | May 8, 2021
Black women have always been at the heart of global progress and change, and ESSENCE is proud to introduce a new space where we can harness our collective power like never before. Join Black women leaders from across the diaspora as we unite to raise our voices in conversation and sisterhood at the first-ever ESSENCE I Am Speaking virtual townhall event, streaming Thursday, May 6 at 5PM EST/2PM PST on ESSENCE Studios and ESSENCE.com. Together, we will reflect on how 2020 changed the world and the role Black women will play in leading progressive action for the future on global scale.
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admin | May 8, 2021
As India battles the second wave of coronavirus infections with an acute shortage of medical equipment, representatives of the Indian diaspora say they are finding it hard to send medical aid to NGOs, hospitals and civil society groups in the country. The reason, they say, is a cumbersome clearance process and the Integrated Goods and Service Tax (IGST) rates. Even after reaching India, several consignments of oxygen concentrators are lying at airports due to IGST rules.
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