Meta declined to discuss the case, saying it does not discuss pending litigation. "For seven hours, he lay there dying slowly in unimaginable suffering," it said.Įight days later, Facebook replied at last to Abrham Amare's complaint. One of the men shot him twice - once in his right shoulder and once in the leg.Īs the professor lay bleeding, the group of men encircled him and "chanted the same insulting slander from the inciteful Facebook post," and kept away anyone who might have tried to bring him to a nearby hospital, the lawsuit said. The posts got hundreds of likes, and, among dozens of comments, users urged people to "get organized and clean them," which Abrham and others understood as veiled threats. It included the neighborhood where the family lived. Without any evidence, it implicated Amare in the massacres of Amhara civilians and accused him of embezzling funds from the university on behalf of Tigrayan rebels. "On October 10 - one day after the first post appeared - a school friend of Professor Amare's son, Abrham Amare, called to warn him that a much longer post had gone up on Facebook. I have so much respect for Abraham who is fighting to reclaim his father's memory and for justice, after this horror. Jackson Gwyneth Gaul, CAP® Kelly Burton, PhD Wendy Ekua (W.E.) Da’Cruz, MA/MPA Ali Hussein Kassim Rev. Antonio (Tony) Williams Carmen Dawson Morgan DeBaun Christiana Russell, M.Ed Christal M. Watch virtually here: Kyle Ali Aneta T Lee James Weinberg Jasmine Stoughton Liz Wilke, PhD Gosia Tomaszewska Deontée Gordon Ayori ‘Selfpreneur’ Selassie Terik Tidwell Adrienne Pickett, Ph.D. The presentation will be STREAMED LIVE, for FREE, on Facebook from 6:00-8 p.m. Excited to host Alejandro Roark, Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, and Joshua Williams and Assata-Nicole Richards, two Houston tech leaders! Timnit Gebru Michele Lawrence Jawando Ruha Benjamin) for believing in my work for black communities' digital futures. There is nothing like having an #HBCU support your social impact work! And, thank you to my sponsors (e.g. President Cynthia Warrick and Dean Isaac McCoy) for believing in my work and in me. I am excited about our reports, scores of the city, and BEAD and DEA recommendations. So many organizations and companies claim to know how to support States with writing digital equity plans when States should be looking to people of color leaders to support planning. From my index, I can tell you the challenges, opportunities, and the "Critical Black Digital Infrastructure" in cities to end the digital divide as we now know it. 57 Variables and 160 Metrics) that informs the individual city reports–Dreaming of a Black Tech Future: A Digital Equity Assessment of Local Black Tech Ecosystem–for Birmingham, Memphis, Nashville, and Houston. This is monumental because there is $65 Billion to end the digital divide in this country. Tonight it's all about Houston and building Black Tech Ecosystem in Houston, Texas! (And, Houston is my hometown)!!Īfter two years of building in four Southern cities, I am releasing my new Black Tech Ecosystem Index (e.g.
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