From First Magazine By Peter Dean Rickards Three months after the earthquake that devastated our neighbouring island of Haiti, 22-year-old Haitian writer/filmmaker Claudel ‘Zaka’ Chery takes FIRST on a short tour around Grand Rue, a main street running through the heart of the commercial district in Port au Prince. Read The Whole Story Return to […]
While the Tea Partiers are complaining about taxes and health care today. Let’s not forget where most of our tax dollars go to. As of today the costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is more than $983 billion. That means on average, every tax payer has paid an average cost of $6,533 dollars. […]
From BlackVoices.com: After years of battling drought and civil and tribal wars, the Sudan, the largest country on the African continent, is experiencing looming famine.
From BlackVoices.com: Once again, a nightmare-like news story may turn out to be the product of real life insanity. Sources are now offering details about the murder of 4 people in their Chicago home: an adult woman and three children (including an infant) that occurred early Wednesday.
From BlackVoices.com: You may not know the name Nushawn Williams, but it’s probably a name you should familiarize yourself with.
From LeapNYC.org: NEW YORK—Students in ten New York City public middle schools from all five boroughs are hard at work on their public art works—school lunchroom tables transformed into colorful works of art that address important social issues in their communities and the world. These works will be displayed in the largest student art exhibition […]
Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday that his department remains committed to closing the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay and is still reviewing its decision to try the 9/11 plotters in the civilian court system.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – The two youngest boys charged with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl last month may have been pressured into confessing and implicating others in the case, according to two people with firsthand knowledge of the police interrogations.
DAKAR, Senegal — The number of rapes carried out by civilians in eastern Congo has increased by 17-fold in the last few years, according to a study released Thursday that says sexual assaults long perpetrated by armed groups are spreading across the population.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Near the launch pads where U.S. space voyages begin, President Barack Obama will try to reassure workers that America’s space adventures sail on despite the coming end of space shuttle flights.
