GREAT NEWS: Carianna Friday’s mother just reached out to alert us that Carianna has been located, safe.
She’s appreciative of all of our help in finding her daughter. 🧡
#Houston, #Texas: 12y/o Eminie Hughes is STILL #missing.
Eminie was last seen on Feb 22 getting into a dark colored four-door Dodge pick- up truck in the area of the 7700 Block of Waterchase Dr. near the intersection of Beltway 8 and Hill croft Avenue in Missouri City.
@nilanmorton I'm allergic to all seafood and fish. So many sneaky ways it can be in my food. I don't eat at chain restaurants like Applebee's or cheesecake factory bcuz they cook everything in the same oil. Every Popeyes & KFC do it.
Omaha, NE: 80y/o Levi Blake is STILL missing & was last seen on August 17th near 33rd & Lake, wearing a gray shirt & black pants. He has dementia & wandered off. Please share to #HelpUsFindUs#LeviBlake
#Greenwood, MS: 22y/o Brittany Thompson was last seen on November 22, Greenwood. Her white Mercedes Benz truck was found abandoned on Old Browning Road in Greenwood.
Have you seen her? #HelpUsFindBrittanyThompson#Mississippi
In a shocking hate crime at a Kansas HS, a white boy viciously attacked a Black girl student while yelling the N Word. The assault resulted in the Black girl's nose being broken and her hospitalization. The school suspended the Black girl for 5 days.
https://t.co/Xe1W4xV4tT
#Pineville, SC: Today is Ms Ruth Ann Jenkins 79th birthday. Her family has not given up hope in finding her.
Ms Ruth, who suffers from dementia, was last seen on July 16, 2022 walking along Highway 45 in the Pineville area.
Buffalo, NY: 16y/o Autumn Lewis was last seen on November 10th around the area of Lombard Street wearing a black hoodie, gray sweatpants & black crocs. #HelpUsFindUs#AutumnLewis
#Philadelphia, PA: Tomorrow marks 2 years since Qadr Williams vanished.
Qadr, now 12y/o, was last seen on October 21, 2021, at 7:45 A.M., by her foster mother on the 300 block of Glen Echo Rd in Philadelphia.
Have you seen her? #HelpUsFindQadrWilliams#Philly#FindingFriday
36 years ago today, Thomas Sankara, a revolutionary African leader, was assassinated by French imperialists.
Sankara drove out French imperialism from Burkina Faso and withdrew from IMF and made the country non-reliant on foreign aid.
He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally, Blaise Compaoré supported by French imperialists
As far as African leadership goes, Thomas Sankara was cut from a different piece of cloth.
Here are some of his accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87):
– He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights
– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting
– In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
– He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
– He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
– As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
– A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
– He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
– When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
– An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself
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#Trail, NC: 16y/o Lauren Heath was last seen on October 13 leaving the Glendalough Community on North Rocky River Rd near Unionville Indian Trail Rd.
Please SHARE to help find #LaurenHeath
Slidell, LA: 63y/o Joyce Bush was last seen on December 16th, 2022 when she was released from St. Tammany Parish Jail; She has not been seen or heard from since. #HelpUsFindUs#JoyceBush
15 y/o Keshaun Williams out of Cleveland, OH is STILL missing. He was last seen at a house party in the 5700blk of Fleet Ave. He called his mom at 10:38pm saying he was on his way home, but never made it. #HelpUsFindUs#KeshaunWilliams