Milton G. Allimadi August 19,2017 0  Gen. Museveni--heil to the chief. [Commentary] In Uganda villagers and rural farmers in an area known as Amuru are today resisting an attempt by a powerful corporation called Madhvani Group and Gen. Yoweri Museveni to forcefully seize their land. Rather than engage in transparent negotiations over the terms of how to purchase or lease the land Gen. Museveni has deployed troops in the region, escalting the potential for brutalization of the people. Madhvani Group wants... | By Marian Wright Edelman August 19,2017 0  President Donald Trump. Photo: Gage Skidmore--Flickr [Commentary] This passage --emphasis mine-- is from Holocaust survivor and human rights champion Elie Wiesel’s 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech: “I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which... | Milton G. Allimadi August 18,2017 0  Prince Valcarcel--deserves some helping hands. Photo: Nate Adams [Column: Righting Wrongs] On Monday, Sierra Leone immigrant and New York City resident Prince Valcarcel got a call from his niece, Yvette who had gone home on July 27 to bury her father who had recently died. He knew she was devastated by his death but there was added anguish and horror in the tone of her voice. "She was crying on the phone and couldn't talk. I... |
By KfabsKorner August 18,2017 0 The principle of Yin and Yang, a fundamental concept in Chinese philosophy, is that all things exist as contradictions. Tall and short, for example. Because art imitates life or vice versa…we can’t expect the sports entertainment industry to escape without feeling a tinge of Yin and Yang: These few weeks ahead of football season are no different than any other preseason. NFL fans are thirsty for kick-off…ready for their teams to set out on the road to Minnesota—site of this year’s... | Adelle M. Banks August 18,2017 0  NAN President Rev. Sharpton. Photo: Elvert Barnes-Flickr The Rev. Al Sharpton says his thousand-minister march is all the more urgent now than when he began planning it months ago. The Pentecostal-turned-Baptist minister says the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va., has sparked more interest and a greater need for clergy of many faiths to speak up at the march set for Aug. 28, the 54th anniversary of the March on Washington. The march will begin at the Washington... | Special To The Black Star News August 17,2017 0  Constituency for Africa president Melvin Foote plans to press the Trump administration to boost emergency relief aid to Sierra Leone, he told the West African nation's ambassador to Washington, today. "Without question CFA must respond to the crisis in Sierra Leone. We will do what we can to press the US Administration to respond to the immediate crisis in Sierra Leone, and also inform and press African-Americans and the Diaspora to also do what we can to generate a significant... |
Sidique Wai August 17,2017 0  Survivor struggling through thick mud. Photo: Yvette Valcarcel. [Commentary] The sad mudslide tragedy that took the lives of almost 1,000 people in Freetown stands as another dark chapter for the country of the Republic of Sierra Leone. The country has experienced its share of both a drastic epidemic and brutal civil war and it has yet to heal. With technology as advanced as it is today, the world was able to see captured... | Special To The Black Star News August 17,2017 0  Schneiderman. Photo-Flickr About 809 students will each get back $2,800 after a $2.5 million settlement with DeVry University, New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has announced. The Attorney General’s investigation found that DeVry lured students with ads that exaggerated graduates’ success in finding employment and contained inadequately substantiated claims about graduates’ salary... |
Over the last few days, during this observance of the first anniversary of the execution of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, were now hearing chants of Weve got to fight back and We are ready for war.
That weve reached this dangerous place in the fight against police abuse was...
Last week a New York Police Department officer was suspended after a video emerged showing him kicking a suspect being arrested, now a group of NYPD officers are being investigated for bringing down Sandra Amezquita a...
The Ebola crises in West Africa is another occasion where the whole world gets to see inept leadership in many African countries.
There have recently been many postings on social media critical of the United States for deploying military personnel and medical workers to West Africa in...
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