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Kenya's Anglo-Leasing Scandal: Uganda-Born U.K. National Could Shed Some Light
Anglo-Leasing: Kenyan attorney general Githu Muigai could learn something from Jesse Mashate[Black Star Editorial]Kenya's Attorney General Githu Muigai and other officials involved in untangling an...
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Gloria Lynne's Son Succumbs to Illness
Richard Alleyne passed due to cancer complications on Wednesday, October 29, 2014, at 6:45 p.m., in Westwood, New Jersey, at Hackensack University Medical Center at Pascack Valley, after a lengthy...
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Fighting for Justice for All New Yorkers -- Schneiderman
New York Attorney General Schneiderman[Op-Ed]'...While the average white household lost 34% of its wealth in the crash, the average black household lost more than 80%...'Since taking office as attorney...
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Oingo Boingo: Republican Leadership And Weird Science
RNC Chair Reince Priebus -- show me the science [Commentary]“My creation/is it real?/It's my creation—I do not know/No hesitation—no heart of gold/Just flesh and blood—I do not know.”So goes the chorus...
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Supporters Of Ousted Brother LeRoy Appeal To Chancellor Milliken
City College Chancellor James B. Milliken -- Supporters of Brother LeRoy say he's falsely accused of anti-semitism [Community Announcements][] On Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014 from 3-7 PM the Kwanzaa Collective...
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Elections: More Political Paralyses After Midterms?
Speaker John Boehner and Senator Harry Reid -- more of the same after Tuesday's vote?[Commentary]I have been working in or around government for over 50 years, and if you asked me to boil down what...
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Africa's Youth Must Learn From Burkina Faso And Eject All Tyrants
Uganda's Museveni -- is he next? In Burkina Faso the youth have done what all the young people of Africa should do -- chase away from power thieving dictators who want to be president for life.Blaise...
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Museveni To Blame For Mass Deaths In Uganda IDPs, Top General Opposing The...
Gen. David Sejusa-- ready for change[Op-Ed: Commentary]Subject: LAUNCH OF ONLINE GAZETTE AND WEBSITEFellow Ugandans, I greet you all.I have been asked by FREE UGANDA LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE to launch the...
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In Uganda Could Presidential Succession Plan Trigger Burkina-like Revolution?
Columnist believes quick change could be triggered in Uganda by event such as Gen. Museveni's purported scheme to have his son Brig. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, shown, replace him [Comment]When I read a...
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Don't Worry, I Am Liberian And I Don't Have Ebola
Nvaseki Konneh: Ebola-free like the millions of other Liberians, West Africans, and Africans in generalEbola stigmatization is real. I too have experienced it.The first was on the Arik Airline flight...
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14.7 Million Poor Children In America Subsidize The Elite's Wealth
Marian Wright Edelman -- America's leading advocate for children's human rights Each year at Halloween, our neighborhoods are bustling as children go door to door dressed as zombies, vampires,...
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It Never Gets Old
By the time Thursday night rolled around I welcomed it with open arms….sleep seemed like something of the distant past. Each of the two previous nights had run over into the wee hours as I sat glued...
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Wednesday: Made In Congo On Broadway
Sabrina MoellaPhoto: Fona -Tasha [Theater: Play]MADE IN CONGO set to premiere on Broadway at United Solo Festival this Wednesday at 7.30pm.An epic journey into the heart of Africa! Canadian hit play...
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Journalist And Educator Jonathan P. Hicks, Dies
Jonathan P. Hicks[Passings]Jonathan P. Hicks has died of pancreatic cancer, his wife, Christy DeBoe Hicks, announced.Hicks was a reporter at The New York Times and later a New York Amsterdam News...
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Election 2014: We Demand a Shot at the American Dream
It's been a rough four years for the women, men and children living on the margins in this country. Those margins have gotten a lot more pronounced and swallowed up a lot more folks in states run by...
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LIBERIAN WOMEN SAY ‘NO’ TO EBOLA MADNESS WITH VIDEOS ON TWITTER
Nov. 3 (GIN) - “I am a Liberian, not a virus.” That’s the loud and clear message of a campaign launched online by a group of Liberian women who refuse to be shamed by thoughtless outbreaks of rejection...
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SOUTH AFRICAN VP ORDERS FARM EVICTION FREEZE, ANGERING WHITES
Nov. 3 (GIN) –Announcing an immediate ban on legal and illegal farm evictions, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa set off a firestorm among the mostly white commercial farmers from the fertile Western...
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WITH BROOMS AND SPATULAS, A ‘PRESIDENT FOR LIFE’ IS REMOVED
Nov. 3 (GIN) – In a burst of pent-up anger, a youth-led movement overpowered the unpopular regime of Blaise Compaore of the West African nation of Burkina Faso, dashing hopes by the “President for...
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ZAMBIAN PRESIDENT MICHAEL SATA TO BE BURIED NOV. 11
Nov. 3 (GIN) – Former president of Zambia, Michael Chilufya Sata, who passed away in a London hospital, will lie in state for just over a week before being laid to rest on Nov. 11, the government...
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Elections 2014: The Republicans Are Reduced To A Party Of Midterm Spoilers
Good for Midterms only. Anti-workers' rights Wisconsin governor Scott Walker -- face of the Republican PartyIt's widely expected that the Republicans will seize control of the U.S. Senate after today's...
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