Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
The last known remaining survivors of the 1921 attack by a white mob were hoping for their day in court. AUDRA D. S. BURCH A historic quest for justice by the last two known centenarian survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre likely ended on Wednesday, June 12 when the Oklahoma Supreme Court affirmed a lower […]
JEREMIAH POFF The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Wednesday May 15 in a case arising from Montgomery County, Maryland, that will have broad and devastating implications for parental rights. In a 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel ruled that parents who send their children to school in the Maryland county are […]
UK and Rwanda agree deal to extend cohort of those eligible to be forcibly removed to east African country DIANE TAYLOR Tens of thousands of people who have been refused asylum in the UK have been added to the group of people at risk of being forcibly removed to Rwanda, the Home Office has announced. […]
ARIANA FIGUEROA The Biden administration announced Thursday May 9, it’s proposing changes to the asylum system that would allow immigration officials to reject asylum seekers who have a criminal record that poses a threat to national security or public safety and quickly remove them. Those changes will occur during the initial screening stages, a senior […]
Global HIV, viral hepatitis epidemics and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to pose significant public health challenges, causing 2.5 million deaths each year, according to a new WHO report – Implementing the global health sector strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, 2022-2030. New data show that STIs are increasing in many regions. […]
The company maintains that its talc products don’t cause cancer BRUCE GIL Johnson & Johnson announced Wednesday, May 1 that it plans to pay nearly $6.5 billion over 25 years to settle all pending and future U.S. lawsuits alleging that its baby powder and other talc-based products caused ovarian cancer. This is the company’s third […]
Gen Z and millennial consumers feel more pressure to tip FRANCISCO VELASQUEZ As consumers continue to deal with elevated levels of inflation, their tipping habits also appear to be feeling the impact of ‘tipflation.’ According to market research firm Talker Research, consumers in the U.S. are reluctantly spending nearly $500 a year on tipping. That’s […]
Lethal injections of Black people in the United States were botched more than twice as often as those of white people, according to a report from an anti-death-penalty group. NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS As Clayton Lockett lay on an execution table in Oklahoma in 2014 awaiting his death, medical officials struggled to gain access to a vein […]
“The state of our Union depends upon” these bills, the letter reads. BEATRICE PETERSON More than 400 lawmakers, activists, civil rights leaders, musicians and actors have written a joint letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to support a list of Congressional bills on racial equity and reparative justice through executive actions and orders. […]
Black people make up about 14 percent of the U.S. population. Many of them are wondering what it would be like to be part of a majority. Colette Coleman Jes’ka Washington lives in a six-bedroom house on a hill with avocado trees and a spectacular view, not far from the rabbit farm she runs. For […]