EXPULSION OF ANC’S UNION PARTNER CREATES UPROAR
Nov. 10 (GIN) – The union of metalworkers, a major partner of the African National Congress with over 350,000 members, was expelled in a late night session of members of the Congress of South Africa...
View ArticleBBC FACES NEW ATTACKS OVER RWANDAN GENOCIDE FILM
Nov. 10 (GIN) – Pressure continues to build over a BBC documentary that challenges the generally accepted story of the Rwandan genocide, and questions whether Rwandan President Paul Kagame was a...
View ArticleThings To Avoid In An Online Meeting
Make the meeting a total successWith the advancement of videoconferencing and telecommuting, there are many businesses that are beginning to host online meetings for their employees.This can...
View ArticleBenefits To Building Your Very Own Electronic Library
Printed books and eBooks will continue to co-existWhile the argument on whether digital or printed books are best is likely to continue for many years to come, the fact is that both mediums are...
View ArticleWhite House Report On Challenges Faced By Women And Girls of Color
President Obama created the White House Council on Women and Girls early during first termThe White House Council on Women and Girls has released a report entitled “Women and Girls of Color: Addressing...
View ArticlePoem: “Nwanne Di Na Mba”
[Poem]I've been displaced from my living mother , taken from her fashioned bosom, detached from her kingdom of heaven, and sown into, an array of chains, clasped around my poking veins and dangling...
View ArticleFerguson And NYC: Get Ready To Respond to Grand Jury Decisions
Michael Brown--killed execution style by Ferguson cop Darren WilsonGet Ready to Respond to Grand Jury Decisions and Be in the House for the November 15 Dialogue Between Cornel West and Bob AvakianAs...
View ArticleGINNY’S SUPPER CLUB: THE WILLIE JONES III QUARTET
[Music]THE WILLIE JONES III QUARTET--PERFORMS AT GINNY’S SUPPER CLUB AT RED ROOSTER HARLEMSaturday, December 6, 20147:30pm & 10:00pm setsFeaturing Willie Jones III (leader, drums), Stacy Dillard...
View ArticleEastside Crackhead: Can His Rap Help Him Escape The Streets?
Born Luther Ridley, known widely as "Eastside Crackhead." Can he escape the streets? [The Hard Life]Inside the booth of a small recording studio in Brooklyn is a man rapping every day in his struggle...
View ArticleEbola And The Case Of The Imam From Guinea
Ebola Frontline soldiers[Publisher's Commentary: Resisting Ebola]The Wall Street Journal has published a chilling article about the death on Tuesday of a nurse in Mali from Ebola -- the nurse had...
View ArticlePORTRAIT OF AN ICON, STOKELY CARMICHAEL
Kwame Ture -- a.k.a Stokely Carmichael [John Oliver Killens Reading Series] Join Us for "Portrait of an Icon, Stokely Carmichael"Thursday November 13, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM ESTWhere: Medgar...
View ArticleUN Questions LGBT "Conversion Therapy" in U.S.
For the first time in its history, today the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) expressed concern over the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy being used on LGBT youth...
View ArticleThe Bullets For Unarmed Teenager And Ferguson Lamentations
Michael Brown -- six, possibly seven bullets, including one in the right eye and one on apex of his head “Just as I thought it was going alright I find out I’m wrong when I thought I was right. It’s...
View ArticleU.S. Senate: Confirm Loretta Lynch As AG Without Delay
Loretta Lynch -- Attorney General designate[To Be Equal]This past Saturday, I had the honor of visiting the White House for President Obama’s announcement of his choice to succeed Eric Holder, who...
View ArticleNew York Protest For Palestinian-American Rasmea Odeh, Facing Deportation On...
Rasmea Odeh Today a broad coalition of New Yorkers and human rights groups will attend a protest in support of Palestinian solidarity activist and United States political prisoner Rasmea Odeh. The...
View ArticleGive From The Heart But Also Verify Beneficiaries
Pearl and Mel Shaw[FUNdraising Good Times] It’s always good to give.To give from our hearts, according to our beliefs, and in-line with our vision for the world we want to live in. There is a renewed...
View ArticleEric Garner And Why Bratton And De Blasio Are Wrong On NYPD's Lynch-hold
What circumstance would justify this?[Black Star News Editorial]The chokehold is a banned procedure in the New York Police Department.It's a lethal and aggressive tactic that kills victims by...
View ArticleSupreme Court Considers Alabama Case on Voting Rights, Districts
U.S. Solicitor Gen. Donald Verrilli America’s voting rights war continues. The U.S. Supreme Court heard Nov. 12 arguments that accuse Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature of redrawing voting...
View Article“The Price of Memory”-- Jamaica’s First Documentary About Slavery Reparations
Film Premieres in New York City on December 7th“The Price of Memory” a documentary feature film about slavery reparations in Jamaica will have its New York premiere on Sunday, December 7 at 2pm at the...
View ArticleCash Michaels, Obama Watch Analyst On Imhotep Gary Byrd's Show, Stricken By...
Cash Michaels[Publisher's Commentary]Cash Michaels, a member of the "Obama Watch" weekly program on Imhotep Gary Byrd's radio show on WLIB- 1190AM has suffered a stroke.Cash reports that he has...
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