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... | Ann Garrison August 20,2017 0  Colin Kaepernick, San Francisco 49ers quarterback, 2011-2016 Screenshot from You Tube video "The Stand" Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick still doesn’t have a job with the NFL. However, the protest he began by kneeling during the national anthem at last season’s games keeps growing.... | William Reed August 20,2017 0  South Sudan's dictator Salva Kiir. Photo--Flickr [Business Exchange] American evangelicals and anti-Islamic activist helped birth South Sudan. The U.S. played a key role in helping negotiate the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Republic of the Sudan and Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) that laid groundwork for South Sudan's 2011 independence referendum and secession. The world has abandoned South Sudan refugees now that the country is... |
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... | 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... | 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... |
By Marjorie Cohn August 20,2017 0  Donald Trump. Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr [Comment] As we mourn the death of Heather Heyer, murdered by a white supremacist at the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally on Saturday, and hope for the recovery of the dozens of other anti-racist counterdemonstrators injured that day, Donald Trump continues to fan the flames of hatred and bigotry he has nourished throughout his brief presidency. The president's reprehensible behavior in this moment creates a new sense of... | 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... |
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...
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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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