By Hazel Trice Edney — Thousands of Black people had protested and many had died at the hands of police, White supremacists and racists as they engaged in non-violent campaigns…
By Xinhua — The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday warned of a “dire” rise in hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, after the number of…
The Ongoing Covid Disaster is still with us as the U.S. reaches 1 Million Dead By Margaret Kimberley, LA Progressive — Nothing shows the abject failure of the Joe Biden…
Statement by the National African American Reparations Commission The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) is comprised of leading African American activists, scholars, professionals and experts in the fields of…
By NNPA Newswire — In March 2020, when college campuses across the country closed and sent students home, many HBCUs continued to house hundreds of students who did not have…
Monday, January 10, 2022 — An open forum with audience call-in and “The Professor” Dr. Ron Daniels on the Soapbox. Topic Can Biden Crush the Orange man and Defeat MAGA…
By Brad Dress, The Hill — France is considering giving some autonomy to Guadeloupe following major riots and protests against coronavirus restrictions and a lagging economy on the Caribbean island….
By Joyce Chimbi, IPS — Kenya’s secondary schools’ administration has been in the eye of a storm since schools reopened in October 2021. Since then, students have set on fire…
By Adeline Courson, Cécile Rémusat (Guadeloupe) and Emmanuelle Trecolle (Paris) — Ten police officers were injured and several journalists shot at on the French Caribbean island of Martinique overnight Thursday…
By RFI — Trade unions on the French Caribbean island of Martinique have called for a general strike as of Monday. Their demands include an end to mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations,…
By Derek Major, Black Enterprise — Colin Luther Powell, the first Black Secretary of State, whose leadership in several Republican administrations shaped foreign policy, died at the age of 84…
By Patrick Oppmann, CNN — The Cuban government has begun to vaccinate children as young as two years old for COVID-19, the island’s state media reported, in a bid to…