DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Opinion: Juneteenth, Haiti and the power of reinvention
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Opinion Nadine Pinede | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Juneteenth is a celebration of that hard-fought Black freedom, observed in honor of June 19, 1865 when slaves in Galveston, Texas, first learned from Union soldiers that they were free. Like my parents growing up in Haiti, she was used to seeing Black people in positions of power. She had freed herself from unjust rules meant to restrict education for Black Americans. Mark Felix/AFP/Getty ImagesIn Haiti, Hurston’s creative powers had the time and freedom to unfurl. As the author of “Barracoon,” a book based on interviews with one of the last enslaved Black Americans, Hurston almost certainly understood the significance of Juneteenth.

Persons: Nadine Pinede, ”, Nadine Pinede Sophie Kandaouroff, Lincoln, Juneteenth, “, Jim Crow, Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston, Lynne Sladky, she’d, Little, Barnard, Langston Hughes, Hurston unapologetically, Zora, Mark Felix, Lucille, Toussaint Louverture, Jean, Jacques Dessalines, Henri Christophe, Alice Walker, Walker Organizations: Scholastic Education, Haiti Noir, CNN, Union, Black, Black American, La Force, Howard University, Barnard College, Harlem Renaissance, verve, Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim, Getty, La, Magazine Locations: Haiti, ”, Haitian, Galveston , Texas, Africa, Texas, Caribbean, France, United States, Black, American, Eatonville , Florida, Miami , Florida, Little Haiti, Baltimore, Washington, New York City, Jamaica, AFP, Long

☆ Trump’s former top strategist pushes the 2024 election as a ‘victory or death!’ war
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“Is this a political war to the knife?”I was not familiar with that term – “war to the knife” – but Bannon also recently used it in an interview with ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Ousted from White House role in 2017Bannon’s tenure in Trump’s White House was relatively short; he was fired in August 2017, part of a major reorganization under then-chief of staff John Kelly, who was brought in to control a chaotic atmosphere. As chief strategist at the White House, Bannon was known for large whiteboards full of lists of priorities – things that still ring true in the priorities he outlined over the weekend. Courts, Congress and mismanagement kept Bannon and Trump from achieving many of these goals in Trump’s first term. Anticipating the potential for a second Trump term, there are any number of supporters who are mapping out how to make the most of it.

Persons: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s, Bannon, ”, Tucker Carlson, “, Trump, Read, Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, John Kelly, Kelly, Trump’s, ” Bannon, Joe Biden’s, General Merrick Garland, Gestapo … there’s, MAGA, Peter Bergen, Bergen, Trump ” –, Roger Stone, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Alex Jones Organizations: CNN, FBI, Fox News, Sovereign, of Congress, Democrats, White, Trump’s, Trump –, Trump, of Justice, DOJ, Gestapo, Federal Reserve, Heritage Foundation, State Department, Heritage Locations: Detroit, Kansas, Atchison, White, Ukraine, Trump’s, State

☆ How a humble Indian fabric became a symbol of luxury in 1960s America
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

But this staple of preppy American fashion has humble origins, far from Martha’s Vineyard or the hallways of Yale or Harvard, in Chennai, India, the coastal city from which it takes its name. Krishnan Nair,” a biography of the Indian textile magnate and hotelier who first sold Jacobson the madras, in a video interview with CNN. From Chennai to shores of the CaribbeanFort St. George was established in the 1630s, helping the British cement a monopoly on the highly lucrative Indian textile industry. Research by the London School of Economics estimates that Indian cotton textiles, which were often exchanged for slaves, accounted for 30% of the total export value of 18th century Anglo-African trade. A madras fabric weaving workshop in Chennai, the Indian city once known as Madras, circa 1990.

Persons: Lisa Birnbach’s “, Ralph Lauren, Brooks, William Jacobson, ”, Bachi Karkaria, Captain C.P, Krishnan Nair, Jacobson, Tony Cenicola, Karkaria, — Nair, “, ’, David Ogilvy, Leonard McCombe, Nair, Ogilvy, Elihu Yale, George, Hathaway, India Madras ”, Eli Yale, King George I, Hathaway Yale, Yale, Kai Toussaint Marcel, Marcel, Tommy Hillfiger, Kimberly M, Jenkins, Patrick Horvais, madras “ Organizations: CNN, Brooks Brothers, Yale, Harvard, New York Times, Milton Academy, madras, Ivy League, East, Yale College, Yale University, Yale . Yale, East India Company, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Parsons School of, London School of, Princeton, Miss College, Sports Locations: madras, Bahamas, Chennai, India, Madras, West Africa, Milton , Massachusetts, superstardom, East India, Fort St, India Madras, Scottish, North Africa, Nigeria, America, Caribbean, St, West Indies, England, France, New Orleans, East Coast, Bermuda, madras Bermuda, Rhode Island, Newport, South Florida, Palm, Fisher

☆ Analysis: India wants to be the next economic superpower. Half of its population holds the key
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Diksha Madhok | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New Delhi CNN —India, the world’s fastest growing major economy, is not firing on all cylinders. The engineering graduate started working at Finnish electronics manufacturer Salcomp’s factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu last year. Adnan Abidi/ReutersLike India, women in China were also relegated to subordinate roles for centuries. Factory jobsMuch of this change is visible in Tamil Nadu, India’s industrial powerhouse where companies such as Foxconn and Samsung have manufacturing plants. Employees test mobile phones on an assembly line of a unit of Foxconn Technology in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, on July 12, 2019.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Gunasri Tamilselvan, Tamilselvan, “, ”, It’s, Chandrasekhar Sripada, Adnan Abidi, Mao, ” Mao, Modi, Vishnu Venugopalan, Deepesh Nanda, Karen Dias, Parameshwari, Arun Roy, Roy Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN, European Union —, CNN, World Bank, Bank, McKinsey, Indian School of Business, Reuters, Communist Party, Apple, Samsung, Guidance, Tata Group, Tata Power, Foxconn Technology, Bloomberg, Getty, Tata, Tamil Locations: New Delhi, India, Tamil Nadu, South Asia, United States, China, Nongriat, Shillong, Meghalaya, Beijing, Washington, Guidance Tamil, Sriperumbudur, Tirunelveli, Zhengzhou, Tamil

☆ Psychiatrist Henry Jarecki says he had 'consensual' relationship with Jeffrey Epstein victim
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Henry Jarecki attends The Accompanied Literary Society's Summer Benefit at The Hudson Sky Terrace at The Hudson Hotel in New York City, June 11, 2007. Famed psychiatrist and former commodities trader Henry Jarecki on Wednesday said he had a "consensual, non-secretive and mutually respectful relationship" with a victim of Jeffrey Epstein who is now suing Jarecki for allegedly raping and sex trafficking her. Jarecki, 91, said the consensual relationship with the woman occurred more than a decade ago. Jarecki's statement, sent to CNBC by his lawyer Sarita Kedia, came two days after the Epstein victim, identified as Jane Doe 11, filed a civil lawsuit against the married psychiatrist in Manhattan federal court. The suit seeks unspecified monetary damages for sexual battery, sex trafficking, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Persons: Henry Jarecki, Jeffrey Epstein, Jarecki, Epstein, Sarita Kedia, Jane Doe, I, Brad Edwards Organizations: Sky, CNBC Locations: New York City, Manhattan

☆ Teacher on leave after holding mock slave auction, using N-word in 5th-grade class
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Paradise Afshar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A Massachusetts teacher who staged a mock slave auction and used the N-word in a 5th-grade class has been placed on leave, according to a letter sent to parents by the school’s superintendent. The school district is about 30 miles west of Boston. In January, the teacher – who is not named in the letter – held an “impromptu mock slave auction” during a lesson on the Atlantic triangle slave trade, during which slave auctions were discussed, the letter said. “It was later brought to the District’s attention that the ‘N-word’ does not appear in the book,” Martineau said. CNN has reached out to the school and to the school district for further comment.

Persons: CNN —, Margaret, Gregory Martineau, –, ” Martineau, “, Martineau Organizations: CNN, Margaret Neary Elementary, WCVB, Public Schools of Northborough Locations: Massachusetts, Boston

☆ On the Brazilian Coast, a Tropical Town Beloved by Artists and Makers
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Nora Walsh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Sign up here to find us in your inbox once a month, and to receive our weekly T List newsletter. Roughly halfway between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the coastal town of Paraty (population 45,000) isn’t the easiest place to reach. It’s that relative seclusion that keeps the tourist hordes and unbridled development at bay, despite the town’s obvious appeal. African slaves not only worked in the mines but built much of the town’s early infrastructure, such as its roads. At the end of the 19th century, Santos, 190 miles to the south, supplanted Paraty as the country’s primary coffee-exporting port, and the town began to languish.

Persons: São, Luana Assunção, ”, Dom João, “ You’ll Organizations: São Paulo, Free Walker Tours Locations: tlist@nytimes.com, Rio de Janeiro, Paraty, Costa Verde, Ilha Grande, CHEE, Minas Gerais, Santos, “, Rio, Orleans

☆ Opinion | Trump’s Taste for Tyranny Finds a Target
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Among the worst episodes in American history are those moments when the federal government deploys the full weight of its power against the most vulnerable people in the country: the Trail of Tears and the Fugitive Slave Act in the 19th century and Japanese internment in the middle of the 20th, to name three. If he is granted a second term in the White House, Donald Trump hopes to add his own entry to this ignominious book of national shame. Trump’s signature promise, during the 2016 presidential election, was that he would build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. His signature promise, this time around, is that he’ll use his power as president to deport as many as 20 million people from the United States. “Following the Eisenhower model,” he told a crowd in Iowa last September, “we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”

Persons: Donald Trump, Eisenhower, ”, “ Locations: U.S, Mexico, United States, Iowa

☆ A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Jennifer Schuessler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One day in 1855, a man walked into a newspaper office in Sydney, Australia, with an odd request. The man, later described as a “man of color” with “bright, intelligent eyes” and an American accent, was looking for a copy of the United States Constitution. The text was procured, along with a recent book on the history of the United States. Two weeks later, the man returned with a nearly 20,000-word text of his own, bearing a blunt title: “The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots.”The first half offered an account of the author’s birth into slavery in North Carolina around 1815, his escape from his master, his years on a whaling ship and then his departure from “the land of the free” for the shores of Australia, where he went to work in the gold fields. The second half was a long, blistering condemnation of the country he had left behind, in particular its revered founding document.

Persons: ” Organizations: United, Constitution Locations: Sydney, Australia, United States, North Carolina

☆ ‘Civil War’ sends a message that’s more dangerous than the violence it depicts onscreen
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

In “Civil War,” tanks trample democracy. But the messages they send may be more dangerous than the violence depicted onscreen: The collapse of democracy is inevitable. In the film, Humphrey Bogart plays Rick, the cynical owner of a Moroccan nightclub at the onset of World War II. John Springer Collection/Corbis Historical/Getty ImagesOther World War II-era films like “Don’t be a Sucker,” which emphasized racial and religious tolerance in America, emphasized the same message. The box office success of “Civil War” ensures, though, that more “American carnage” stories are likely headed our way .

Persons: Yuval Noah Harari, Harari, Volodymyr Zelensky, ”, Alex Garland’s “, Donald Trump, Casablanca ’, Humphrey Bogart, Rick, “ We’ll, Dooley Wilson, Ingrid Bergman, Everett, Rick —, Adolf Hitler’s, Democracy’s, Cristóbal, Berry, “, Frank Capra, Frank Sinatra, Sinatra, ” Frank Sinatra, John Springer, Kermit Roosevelt III, Roosevelt, ” Roosevelt, Reagan, Obama, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama —, Diana Walker, ” Reagan, Reagan’s, Barack Obama, Chuck Kennedy, Trump, hasn’t, Walt Whitman, Whitman, ” Whitman, ” Read Whitman, ” Walt Whitman, Ian Beacock, ” Beacock, Beacock, Ivan Illich, ” Kirsten Dunst, John Blake Organizations: CNN, Casablanca, paragon, Library of Congress, Nazi, Convention, Former, Lions, Hulton, “ Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Russian, America, United States, “, Casablanca, Moroccan, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi, Nazi, Charlottesville , Virginia, Vietnam, Kansas, Kenya, Denver , Colorado, Austrian, China

☆ Steve McQueen, on a Different Wavelength
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the Dia Art Foundation invited Steve McQueen to create a work for its museum in Beacon, N.Y., the curators assumed that he’d propose a film or video project. It made sense: McQueen is the British director of the Oscar-winning best picture “12 Years a Slave” (2013) and other acclaimed movies such as “Hunger” and “Shame.” And long before that, he was already a prominent contemporary artist known for experimental films with wildly varying themes, lengths and display methods, often in museum galleries. In one notable work, “Western Deep” (2002), he immersed viewers in the experience of workers in a gold mine in South Africa. The installation required a pitch-black screening room and the film began with a six-minute scene of the descent down the shaft. Awarded the British pavilion exhibition in the Venice Biennale in 2009, he showed “Giardini,” a film on two large screens depicting the gardens that host national pavilions, but shot in the dead of winter, misty and gray, with scavenger dogs roaming and dim church bells in the distance.

Persons: Steve McQueen, he’d, McQueen, Oscar, “ Giardini, ” Organizations: Dia Art Foundation, Venice Biennale Locations: Beacon , N.Y, British, South Africa, Venice

☆ Ancient text reveals details of Plato’s burial place and final evening, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

It was previously only known that he was buried in the academy, but not specifically where, Ranocchia told CNN Tuesday. A statue of ancient Greek philosopher Plato in Athens, Greece. Brigida Soriano/AlamyThe text also provides more detail about Plato’s final night – and he wasn’t a fan of the music that was played. The project, called the Greek Schools project, is a five-year study using various technologies and methods to help decipher the fragile papyri. “The new readings often draw on new and concrete facts about Plato’s Academy, Hellenistic literature, Philodemus of Gadara and ancient history in general.”

Persons: Plato, Graziano Ranocchia, Ranocchia, Roman general Sulla, Brigida Soriano, ”, ” Ranocchia, Socrates, Julius Caesar, Lorenzo Di Cola, ” Kilian Fleischer Organizations: CNN, Platonic Academy of Athens, of Philology, University of Pisa, Platonic, Spartans, University of Naples, European Union, ERC – European Research Council, Greek Schools, Plato’s Academy Locations: Vesuvius, Athens, Greece, Thrace, Naples, Mesopotamia, Aegina, Sicily, Herculaneum, Italy

☆ Black royals say Hollywood erased their existence. They're fighting to change the whitewashed narrative.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Black royals have existed around the world for millennia. Mainstream TV shows and movies that depict the true history of Black royal families are few and far between. And while movies about fictional Black royals exist — "The Princess and The Frog" (2009), "Black Panther" (2018), and the latest "The Little Mermaid" (2023) — Hollywood still isn't doing enough to educate viewers that Black royals exist in the real world, according to Nigeria's Princess Keisha Omilana. - Prince Asfa-Wossen AsserateMeanwhile, Asfa-Wossen said educators are too often preoccupied with using slave narratives to recount Black history. But in order to portray Black royals as equal to their white counterparts, there must be a shift in perspective, he said.

Persons: —, Queen Elizabeth, Sierra Leone's, Sarah Culberson, Nigeria's Princess Keisha, Prince Kunle Omilana, Prince Asfa, Asserate, Princess Ariana, Prince Joel, Keisha Omilana, Halle Bailey, Ariel, Disney Keisha, Prince Adekunle, Omilana, Keisha, Kunle, Ipetu, Orjinmo, Prince Kunle, haven't, George Osodi, Fernando Catala, Princess Keisha, David White, Sarah, Sarah Culberson Sarah, Ethiopia's Prince Asfa, Manfred Roth, who's, Haile Selassie, Young, Charlotte, Liam Daniel, Wossen, Ethiopia's Prince Joel, Joel, Ethiopia Antwon Maxwell, Kassa, Ian Sansom, it's, Queen of Sheba, King Soloman's, Sheba, Menelik, Axum, don't, Tell Organizations: Service, Hollywood, BI, Immigration, Board of Canada, Paramount, Getty, Netflix, SAG, Ethiopian, King, Guardian Locations: Hollywood, Windsor, American, Nigeria, Yoruba Kingdom, British, Morocco, Lesotho, Swaziland, Europe, Africa, Mende, Bumpe, Sierra Leone, West Virginia, Ethiopia, India, Germany, Los Angeles, America

☆ Nigeria kidnapping: Chibok girl rescued after 10 years in captivity
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Stephanie Busari | Michael Rios | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Lagos, Nigeria CNN —The Nigerian army says it has rescued one of the missing Chibok schoolgirls abducted by militant Islamic group Boko Haram a decade ago. But the abduction of the Chibok girls remains the highest-profile example of the group’s targeting of schools. A decade later: Chibok kidnapping survivors tell their storiesSurvivors of the Chibok kidnapping recently shared their harrowing experiences in captivity with CNN on the 10th anniversary of their abduction. One of them Amina Ali, 27, was forced to marry a Boko Haram fighter, spending two years in captivity, before escaping. Ishaya was also reunited with her family in 2017 after spending three years as a “slave,” treating injured Boko Haram fighters.

Persons: Chibok schoolgirls, Lydia Simon, Boko Haram, Haram, “, Amina Ali, Boko, Hannatu Stephen, Ishaya, Stephanie Busari, Michael Rios, Nimi Princewill Organizations: Nigeria CNN —, CNN, Amnesty International, West, Human Rights Locations: Lagos, Nigeria, Borno State, Haram, Islamic State, West African Province, Boko Haram, ”, Nigerian, Kuriga, Sokoto, Atlanta

☆ They were kidnapped from a boarding school 10 years ago. Hear their stories
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Stephanie Busari | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Boko Haram has waged a 15-year insurgency battle in northern Nigeria and has kidnapped thousands of people in that time. But the Chibok girls serve as a potent symbol to the world of hope and resilience. Boko Haram robbed her futureOnce an ambitious student with dreams of academic achievement, Hauwa Ishaya was 16 when she was kidnapped. As a result, she instead became a self-described “slave” – attending to her married sisters’ needs and treating wounded Boko Haram fighters. ‘I believe she’s alive’It is not only the girls kidnapped 10 years ago whose lives have been forever changed.

Persons: Nigeria CNN —, Haram, Amina Ali, Amina, Boko, CNN Amina, “, Hauwa Ishaya, CNN Hauwa, ” –, ’, Hauwa, ”, Hannatu Stephen, Hannatu, ‘, Yana Galang, Rifkatu, Yana, CNN Yana, she’s Organizations: Nigeria CNN, Amnesty International, CNN, American University of Nigeria Locations: Yola, Nigeria, Adamawa State, Boko Haram, Chibok

His skills were passed down and cultivated from generation to generation, prompting two of his grandsons to create a construction company in Tennessee, also called McKissack & McKissack. "My father always took us [to] job sites, took us to the office. Today, it brings in between $25 million and $30 million per year, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It, and manages $15 billion in projects with offices in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Baltimore. She applied for jobs as a federal contractor, getting her foot in the door to work on construction projects at the White House and U.S. Treasury building. Deryl McKissack

Persons: Deryl, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Moses, Cheryl, McKissack, Moses McKissack, we've, they've, Andrea, William DeBerry Organizations: McKissack, D.C, Smithsonian African American Museum of, CNBC, Howard University, Washington Post, White House, . Treasury, Oxford Locations: Washington, Tennessee, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Baltimore

☆ Author Maryse Conde, winner of ‘alternative’ Nobel Literature Prize, dies at 90
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Paris (Reuters) — Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Conde, who wrote about colonialism, slavery and the French-Caribbean diaspora, died in southern France on Monday at the age of 90. Often cited as a potential winner of the Nobel prize for literature, Conde was awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018, created after the Swedish Academy postponed that year’s literary Nobel in the aftermath of a rape scandal. “A literary giant, Maryse Conde paints a picture of sorrow and hope, from Guadaloupe to Africa, from the Caribbean to Provence. “Segu” won Conde several awards, including a Fulbright scholarship, and she went on to teach literature at Columbia University in New York, several other US universities and at the Sorbonne in Paris. French Foreign Trade and Language minister Franck Riester said Conde was a leading light of French literature and theatre.

Persons: Maryse Conde, Conde, Emmanuel Macron, “, ” Conde, “ Segu ”, Salem, Mamadou Conde, Richard Philcox, Philcox, Franck Riester Organizations: Paris, —, New, Swedish Academy, New Academy, Columbia University, Sorbonne, Agence France, Presse, Foreign Trade Locations: — Guadeloupe, French, Caribbean, France, Guadaloupe, Africa, Provence, Mali, Brazil, New York, Paris, Pointe, Guinean, Apt

☆ Photographer Nona Faustine’s series “White Shoes” reveals New York’s role in the transatlantic slave trade
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Briana Ellis-Gibbs | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

She began the body of work from which “White Shoes” is drawn during graduate studies at the International Center of Photography (ICP) program at Bard College. Nona Faustine/Courtesy Brooklyn MuseumFor centuries, New York City played a significant role in the enslavement of Black people. By 1730, forty-two percent of White households in the city enslaved Black people — the second-largest percentage of household slave ownership, after Charleston, South Carolina, in the United States. A tiara is balanced on her head, representing Western royalty and the dehumanizing ways White people treated enslaved Black women. Faustine's "White Shoes" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum opens with her 2012 shot "Venus of Vlacke Bos," (far left).

Persons: Nona Faustine, Faustine, ” Faustine, ”, Jacob Morris, Baring, “, Vlacke Bos, Mason, Dixon, Isabelle, Saartjie, Sarah ” Baartman, it’s, Catherine Morris, Carla Forbes, Morris, I’m, Faustine —, Truth’s Organizations: CNN, Brooklyn Museum, International Center of Photography, Bard College, New York City, , New York City, Harlem Historical Society, Brooklyn —, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum’s, Brooklyn Borough Hall Locations: New York City, Brooklyn, York, Manhattan, New York, New Amsterdam, , New York, Harlem, Wall, Lower Manhattan, White, Charleston , South Carolina, United States, Dutch, Flatbush, Lefferts House, Prospect Park , Brooklyn, African, Europe, Chinatown, Bronx, Staten Island

☆ Was Jesus a man of color? Why this question matters more than ever
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

But the question over the color of Jesus’ skin is a serious one this Easter, for two reasons. But there are some who say Jesus’ color should stay the same, or that it doesn’t matter at all. He concedes that there are barriers to worshipping a White Jesus that he, a White man, may not understand. Jesus didn’t simply care about the poor, he was poor.”Cleveland tells CNN that people who say Jesus’ color wasn’t important ignore history. She says the experience taught her how much White Christian nationalism and the White Jesus have merged.

Persons: CNN — Christena Cleveland, Thomas ”, Jesus, —, Cleveland, Thor, ”, Jesus didn’t, Megyn Kelly, “, Trump, Donald Trump, Al Drago, Gentile, Warner, he’s, Sallman, Edward J, Blum, Jesus Christ, Mario Tama, Christina L, Barr, ” Barr, he’d, coon, ” Antony Pinol, Pinol, God, Jesus doesn’t, ” Pino, Jeff Hutchens, Albert Cleage, George Floyd, Black, Dante Stewart, ” “, ” Stewart, James Cone, Toni Morrison, White, ‘ ’ Blum, MAGA, White MAGA Jesus, Paul Weaver, Drew Angerer, Jesus ’, Frederick Buechner, John Blake Organizations: CNN, Cleveland, TSA, Fox News, Bloomberg, Getty, CARE, New York Times, Christ, America, Communist Party, Warner, Republican Party, Black Tea News, Pennsylvania State Capitol, Christianity Locations: Cleveland, Hollywood, barbershops, Santa Claus, America, White, Avoca , Pennsylvania, Israel, Port, Prince, Haiti, Africa, Dillon , South Carolina, Asia, Southern, Eastern Europe, Rome, Harrisburg , Pennsylvania, Gaza, New York City

☆ How an activist started a chocolate company that's bringing in $162 million a year
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

If Tony's Chocolonely founder Teun van de Keuken had his way, he would've ended up behind bars long before he created his popular chocolate company. Fueling slavery by knowingly purchasing a chocolate bar made with illegal child labor. Nearly 20 years later Tony's Chocolonely is not only one of the most popular chocolate brands in van de Keuken's native Netherlands, it is known around the world. "[We've shown] you can be a successful chocolate company doing it the right way, in an ethical way." For the full story of how Tony's Chocolonely went from a stunt to a global brand, check out CNBC Make It's video.

Persons: Tony's, Teun van de Keuken, would've, van de Keuken, We've, Douglas Lamont, Tony's Chocolonely Organizations: Target, Walmart, CNBC Locations: Dutch, van de, Netherlands

☆ How Tony's Chocolonely brings in $162 million a year selling chocolate
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Beatriz Bajuelos Castillo | Gene Kim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHow Tony's Chocolonely brings in $162 million a year selling chocolateWith its bold and colorful packaging, Tony's Chocolonely is trying to achieve a huge mission: to make chocolate 100% slave free. In fiscal year 2023, this Dutch chocolate company brought in $162 million in revenue.

Persons: Chocolonely

☆ Gangs netting up to $3 trillion a year as Southeast Asia human trafficking becomes a global crisis, Interpol says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Human trafficking-fueled fraud is exploding in Southeast Asia with organized crime rings raking in close to $3 trillion in illicit revenue annually, the head of Interpol has said in comments that reveal the huge profits being earned by cartels. One international organized crime group makes $50 billion a year, according to Interpol secretary-general Jurgen Stock, adding that $2 trillion to $3 trillion of illicit money flows through the global financial system annually. While drug trafficking contributes around 40% to 70% of organized crime income, criminal groups are also using those smuggling networks to illegally move humans, arms and stolen products among other things, Stock said. Criminal enterprises also exist in Laos, Thailand and the Philippines, with many of the lucrative online scam operations ranging from illegal gambling, to love scams and crypto fraud. Beijing has pressed Myanmar’s military government to rein in the scam operations, but with limited success.

Persons: Jurgen Stock, Stock, ” Stock, Human Rights Volker Turk Organizations: CNN, Interpol, International Monetary Fund, Covid, ”, “, United Nations, UN, Human Rights, Philippine News Agency Locations: Southeast Asia, Singapore, Asia, United States, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Philippines, China –, Beijing, China, Manila, what’s, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong

☆ Elon Musk says everyone should 'move on' from focusing on racism
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"The Don Lemon Show" premiered with an Elon Musk interview on Monday. The Tesla and X owner told Lemon that society blames "a lot of things on racism." During a wide-ranging interview on "The Don Lemon Show" — which included Musk saying he felt upset by some of Lemon's questions — the X owner was asked about his stance on racism. And according to Musk, society blames "a lot of things" on racism, and that's unfair. At one point, in response to questions from Lemon, Musk replied saying, "You are upsetting me, because the way you're phrasing questions, I think, is not cogent."

Persons: Don Lemon, Elon, Lemon, Musk, —, Donald Trump, bLRae4DhyO, it'll, Tesla Organizations: Service, Elon, Tesla, CNN, X

☆ Opinion: Why gangs hold so much power in Haiti
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Opinion Garry Pierre-Pierre | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

CNN —The last few weeks have brought unthinkable upheaval in Haiti, a country that is no stranger to tragedy and suffering. Nothing can compare to the current upheaval in Haiti though, and I would expect new waves of Haitians to seek refuge on foreign shores. After securing its independence, Haiti was subjected to neocolonialism and neglect by the global superpower on its doorstep, the US. Haiti needs help combating corruption and loosening the stranglehold that the country’s oligarchic masters have on its economy. He remains sequestered in Haiti however, because he knows that leaving would mean his business would be looted and pillaged.

Persons: Garry Pierre, Pierre, Ariel Henry, Henry, —, ‘ Papa Doc ’, François “ Papa Doc ” Duvalier, Jean, Claude “ Baby Doc ” Duvalier, Claude Duvalier, Bertrand Aristide, Duvalier, — Aristide, ”, Jimmy, Giles Clarke, Jimmy Cherizier, Guy Philippe, Aristide, Philippe, Cherizier, Henry’s, Uncle Sam, strongmen, America sneezes Organizations: Haitian Times, New York Times, World Trade Center, City University Graduate School, Journalism‘s Center for Community, Ethnic Media, CNN, Haitian, ., UN, Haiti, US, Haiti —, Caribbean, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Drug, Agency, America Locations: New York, Haitian, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, France, Canada, Washington, Kenya, Nairobi, Port, Haiti’s, Africa, Delmas, Prince, Jamaica, America, Maryland

☆ Opinion: How my homeland Haiti came to be such a troubled place
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Opinion Garry Pierre-Pierre | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

CNN —The last few weeks have brought unthinkable upheaval in Haiti, a country that is no stranger to tragedy and suffering. Nothing can compare to the current upheaval in Haiti though, and I would expect new waves of Haitians to seek refuge on foreign shores. Haiti needs help combating corruption and loosening the stranglehold that the country’s oligarchic masters have on its economy. He remains sequestered in Haiti however, because he knows that leaving would mean his business would be looted and pillaged. Although formidable challenges lie ahead, the path to peace and stability in Haiti is possible with help from Washington.

Persons: Garry Pierre, Pierre, Gary Pierre, Ariel Henry, Henry, —, ‘ Papa Doc ’, François “ Papa Doc ” Duvalier, Jean, Claude “ Baby Doc ” Duvalier, Claude Duvalier, Bertrand Aristide, Duvalier, — Aristide, ”, Jimmy, Giles Clarke, Jimmy Cherizier, Guy Philippe, Aristide, Philippe, Cherizier, Henry’s, Uncle Sam, strongmen, America sneezes Organizations: Haitian Times, New York Times, World Trade Center, City University Graduate School, Journalism‘s Center for Community, Ethnic Media, CNN, Haitian, ., UN, Haiti, US, Haiti —, Caribbean, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Drug, Agency, America Locations: New York, Haitian, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, France, Canada, Washington, Kenya, Nairobi, Port, Haiti’s, Africa, Delmas, Prince, Jamaica, America, Maryland

Search resuls for: "Slave"

25 mentions found