From the AFP: WASHINGTON — The World Bank said Friday it had cancelled Haiti’s remaining debt to help the impoverished country recover from a devastating earthquake four months ago.
From TheGrio.com: A woman has been charged with smuggling heroin into Florida’s Charlotte County Jail by hiding it in her vagina. Katrina Montez Wade, 37, was arrested on May 20th when deputies raided a suspected drug den in Port Charlotte. Wade and another woman went to jail on trafficking charges after detectives say they found […]
From NewAmericaMedia.org: While Jena Sheriff says he is trying to rid his community of drugs, critics accuse him of exacting revenge against Black residents.
From the AFP: JOHANNESBURG — South Africa is riding a wave of patriotism ahead of the World Cup, which national leaders hope will heal the still-sharp racial divide 16 years after the end of white-minority rule.
Roland Martin and Mary Matalin take on the day’s top news stories. In this edition of M-Squared, Martin and Matalin discuss President Obama’s ban on offshore drilling and the ban’s effect on employment. Did the Obama Administration overreact in banning offshore drilling or was this the right move to keep our shores safe from oil […]
From BlackVoices.com: I don’t have to list President Barack Obama’s credentials, but I will.
From AOL News: AUSTIN, Texas — In 1954, the University of Texas named a dorm after William Stewart Simkins, who taught law there for three decades. Simkins has been dead for more than 80 years but now his past — as a leader of the Ku Klux Klan — has come back to haunt the […]
From BlackVoices.com: To many outside of the Washington, D.C., area (or “ureah” as we would say), go-go seems like some random localized fad whose percussion-heavy beat is often unbearable after a few minutes of listening. To those of us, though, who grew up with the music, it is as much a part of who we […]
