Colin Benjamin May 11,2019 0  Did Jamaican Police abduct Reggae artist's children and cut off their dreadlocks? On Saturday, news broke from Jamaica that Rastafarian Reggae artist JahDore has accused Jamaican Police of unlawfully taking his children—before returning them with shaved heads. Did Jamaican Police really engage in child abuse by shaving the locks from the heads of JahDore’s kids? This is the story that emerged Saturday, in the Jamaican newspapers, The Gleaner... | Norman Kay May 11,2019 0  U.K. Member of Parliament Williams wears People Power cap to show support for Uganda pro-democracy struggle. This was a good week for the prospects for democracy and eventual end to one-man rule in Uganda. At a protest organized by Diaspora Ugandans in London, British Members of Parliament (MPs), Dr. Paul Daniel Williams and Alex Sobel, condemned dictator Yoweri Museveni and called on the... | Marc Morial May 10,2019 0  Marc H. Morial. Photo: Facebook U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, Chair, House Oversight Committee recently thundered: “This is not Russia. This is the United States of America. And I will fight until the death to make sure every citizen—whether they’re Green Party, whether they’re Freedom Party, whether they’re Democrat, whether they’re Republican, whoever – has that right to vote.... |
Colin Benjamin May 10,2019 0  Will Killer-Cop Pantaleo be held accountable in his upcoming NYPD administrative trial? Thursday, New York City Judge Joan Madden ruled the administrative trial against Daniel Pantaleo, the choke-hold killer of Eric Garner, can start next week. The trial will be prosecuted by the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). The NYPD’s continued employment of Pantaleo almost five years after he strangled Garner to dead—as Garner repeated his dying words “I can’t... | Colin Benjamin May 09,2019 0  Dr. Jahi Issa: fired because his teaching style was deemed "too Black" at a HBCU? The trial of a Delaware State University history professor who said he was twice passed over for a promised promotion before being fired for his “too Black” teaching methods, will start in Delaware next week. Was history Professor Dr. Jahi Issa fired by Delaware State University because his teaching style “too Black?” Next Monday, the case of Jahi Issa v. Delaware State... | Colin Benjamin May 08,2019 0  Mrs. Wilkes-Smith: fighting to adopt her niece who was given to White foster parents by Department of Social Services. Last month, Amber Wilkes-Smith’s petition to gain custody of her four-year-old niece—from the White foster parents whom her niece is living with—was denied by Erie County Family Court Judge Margaret Szczur in Buffalo, New York. Judge Szczur also denied visitation rights between Wilkes-Smith’s 4-year-old niece and said niece’s 14-year-old... |
Special To The Black Star News May 08,2019 0  Featuring Two Commissioned World Premieres by FLUXX and Omari Mizrahi/Les Ballet Afrik. PROGRAM B – May 9, 10 and 11. “This season we are conversing, collaborating, and of course singing and dancing. We are thrilled to be working with a... | Nvasekie Konneh May 08,2019 0  The Story of Nandi and Kadija By Dr. A Wahab Dukule 43 pp. Reviewed by Nvasekie N. Konneh Growing up as a young boy in Liberia, storytelling or listening to... |
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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