By Frank Sharry April 17,2018 0 
America's congenital liar in chief. Photo: Gage Skidmore--Flickr Explosive new documents obtained through a FOIA request from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reveal that the Trump Administration knew that deteriorating conditions within Haiti warranted an extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) but terminated the program anyway. The Administration claimed that conditions in Haiti were improving to the point where families could... | Milton G. Allimadi April 19,2018 0  M.P. Williams wants answers about support for Museveni by British government. Source: YouTube [Commentary] A Western lawmaker has finally stood up to Uganda's genocidal tyrant Gen. Yoweri Museveni. U.K. and U.S. support for Museveni has helped create millions of widows and orphans because of his preference to realize his ambitions with bullets --in Uganda, Rwanda, Congo and South Sudan-- over his three decades reign. In the... | Stephen Par Kuol April 17,2018 0  South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar. Ousted by Salva Kiir, puppet of the Ugandan dictator and unindicted war criminal Gen. Museveni. Photo: Flickr. [Africa: Op-Ed] The regionally coordinated policy of isolating the SPLM/A (IO) since the breakdown of the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (ARCISS) on July 8, 2016 was syndicated by subjecting its leader, Dr. Riek Machar to indefinite solitary confinement in South Africa. ... |
John Muto-Ono p'Lajur April 16,2018 0  A copy of the book-My Mayor In this book, Ochitti p’ Igunye Kumgem (his family root name) shares his experience as a local opposition political novice in local grassroots elections. He shares stories of poverty, betrayal, intrigue, corruption, sex, and power in a local democracy. The book highlights the nature and level of corruption, intrigue, and betrayal in local electoral processes and how it challenges democracy and good governance in a poor... | Colin Benjamin April 16,2018 0  A President possibly compromised by a file in Russia. Photo: Gage Skidmore--Flickr. [Speaking Truth To Empower] Last week, fired former FBI Director James Comey, amid media analysis of his about to be released book, “A Higher Loyalty,” revealed Donald Trump asked him to investigate and disprove allegations that Trump engaged in sexual urination, called “golden showers,” with Russian prostitutes, in 2013, in Moscow. This isn’t just about sex and prurient press coverage,... | William Reed April 17,2018 0  Cover of the 2011 book about Jay-Z's rise Shawn Corey Carter grew up in Brooklyn’s troubled Marcy Projects. Today, he is one of the best-selling and wealthiest musician of all time. According to Forbes, Mr. Carter and his wife Beyonce enjoy net worth of $1.16 billion. Mr. Carter accounts for most of it: $810 million. ... |
Marc Morial April 20,2018 0  Lady Starbucks doesn't welcome all? Photo: The Black Star News The arrest of two young Black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks sparked widespread protest and has ignited a national conversation about the issue of implicit bias and how to combat it. As a sort of contrast, around the same time as the Starbucks arrest, a fraternity at Syracuse University was suspended over racist, sexist and homophobic videos recorded in the fraternity house and posted to a fraternity Facebook group... | Special To The Black Star News April 19,2018 0 
Governor Cuomo. Photo: Flickr The dramatic increase in the number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and their overly aggressive tactics raise serious concerns, New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo has said. "ICE's hyper-aggressive raids on hardworking New Yorkers are immoral and un-New York, and we stand more determined than ever to support the rights of all immigrants... |
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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