
Fast-food workers are walking off the job in about 100 cities today in what organizers call their largest action to date.
Fast-food workers are walking off the job in about 100 cities today in what organizers call their largest action to date.
By MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
Mr. President, The Lion of Wealth Doesn’t Want to Share Food With the Sheep of Need. It Wants to Eat Them.
In 2012 US Census Bureau estimated 44,456,009 African Americans in the United States meaning that 14.1% of the total American population of 313.9 Million is Black.
by William Finnegan He led his beloved, tormented country from the howling darkness of apartheid to the promised land of democracy.
by Charlayne Hunter-Gault To the very end, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela remained South Africa’s Father of the Nation.
by Nadine Gordimer I met him in 1964, during the Rivonia Trial, and I was present when he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
by Joshua Rothman Over the years, The New Yorker has been lucky enough to chronicle glimpses of Mandela’s life.
Pope Francis is displaying an extraordinary style and passion that demands our attention. He addresses the needs of the poor, embraces outcasts, and loves those on themargins of society.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran had been invited to Kingston for talks by Nicholson after Port of Spain had refused entry to 13 Jamaican nationals last month that had escalated into a threat of a trade war between the two CARICOM members.
By Kevin Edmonds
Given the current controversy surrounding the extent of the U.S. drone program and targeted killings, it is important to revisit that in the summer of 2012, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency announced
NIGERIAN TAPPED AS LEADER BY FORBES MAGAZINE
Dec. 3 (GIN) – For adapting new technologies to address the financial needs of farmers, Nigerian Minister of Agriculture Akinwumi Adesina was tapped as the Forbes Man of the Year 2013.