World

Activists have identified the victim as Amina ali Darsha Nkeki, the report states. She is the first of the girls rescued from the 2014 mass kidnapping that sparked the hashtag and search movement #BringBackOurGirls.

POLITICKER ONE: A Tale of Two Bills, whose wives have stood by them through thick and thin. Plus, lawmakers wear red to #BringBackOurGirls

World

More than 200 girls rescued recently from Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria are feared to be pregnant amid reports of widespread rape and sexual abuse by the terrorist group, according to Australia’s News.com. About 275 women and children were brought to a camp over the weekend, following a Nigerian military operation to free them […]

World

It’s being reported that Boko Haram, Nigeria’s Islamist insurgency, kidnapped some 20 girls Monday. It happened just miles from the small town where they abducted several hundred schoolgirls in April. This latest attack and growing anxiety over the schoolgirls who have been missing for months, is mounting pressure on the Nigerian government and raising questions around […]

Nation

(HOUSTON) — (KROI) The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls exploded on social media, but did it make any real difference? After 250 girls were kidnapped from their school…

NewsOne Now

Last week, conservative pundits came out of the woodwork decrying, mocking and criticizing the use of the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag that has driven conversation around the case of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls. The critics of the hashtag have said that sending messages with it is useless in effecting any change on behalf of the missing girls. Wednesday […]

Ann Coulter (pictured) is the kind of person who makes you question your vow to never wish ill on on a person. I don’t especially care whether her schtick — which is essentially being as offensive as possible to the delight of crotchety racists in need of a wet dream — is genuine, but I […]

Opinion, World

Why bringing back the Nigerian girls who were kidnapped and sold as brides is about a much bigger issue, and one that is almost never talked about in the U.S. – human trafficking. In the middle of all of the Donald Sterling talk and debate over whether the Clippers did enough or not in the […]

World

Nigerian security forces had advance warning that 329 Nigerian schoolgirls would be kidnapped from Chibok and failed to act, according to disturbing findings by Amnesty International. RELATED: First Lady Delivers President’s Weekly Address, Discusses Abducted Nigerian Girls [VIDEO] After conducting multiple interviews and independently verifying information, it has been determined that the military had more than […]

Politics

RELATED: First Lady Calls For Return Of Nigerian Girls Nigerian Student Describes Boko Haram Abduction First Lady Michelle Obama took over the president’s weekly address Saturday to talk about the plight of Nigerian women and girls who were abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram. First Lady Michelle Obama Delivers First Weekly Address

Politics

First Lady Michelle Obama posted the following on Twitter. Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It’s time to #BringBackOurGirls. -mo pic.twitter.com/glDKDotJRt — The First Lady (@FLOTUS) May 7, 2014

Nation

As the world mobilizes to safely bring home 276 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Nigeria on April 14, the subject of human trafficking has risen to the fore. RELATED: Boko Haram Leader Claims Responsibility For Abduction, Wants To Sell Girls According to The Polaris Project, an organization dedicated to the eradication of human trafficking, an […]