Sierra Leone has waved the white flag in the face of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has renewed debate about the effectiveness of health systems and how best to support collective regional action.

Josephus Weeks (left), a nephew of Thomas Eric Duncan, and Weeks’ son, Josephus Weeks Jr., attend a prayer service Oct. 7, 2014, with nurses, doctors and staff in front of Dallas’ Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Duncan eventually died from Ebola.

Charlene Carruthers is national coordinator of BYP 100, which teaches black youth how to organize around issues in their community.

The following is a press statement by Fred Mitchell, Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration made on March 24th, 2014

Bill De Blasio won the 2013 mayoralty election convincingly. That victory put an end to 20 years of Republican domination of a Democratic city.

Ferguson protests swarm the city at Police Headquarters, City Hall, colleges, shopping malls and political fundraisers.

On October 8th, I learned about the death of Vonderrit Myers, another young Black man killed by a white police officer in Missouri.

By Evan Walker-Wells Plans are underway for a “Weekend of Resistance” that organizers are calling Ferguson October to protest the police killing of teenager Michael Brown, police violence, and other forms of injustice — and it will…
by Davey D So the weekend dubbed #FergusonOctober is over. Thousands took to the streets of St Louis on Saturday. They attended big rallies and concerts on Sunday. St Louis University…
On Saturday, Oct. 4, one of the most brutal dictators of Haiti, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier was dying of a heart attack at his home in Thomassin…

NEW YORK — Six years after America sank into the deepest economic downturn since the 1930s, the jobless rate has fallen to 5.9 percent, the lowest since July 2008. But one demographic group — African-American men — seems to be stuck in a permanent recession.