Reporting for Reuters, Ahmed Elumami and Aidan Lewis, migrants on a ship intercepted by Libya are refusing to disembark citing human rights abuses. The African migrants were on the ship hoping to get to Italy or Malta. Because of ...
BBC Africa is reporting the country of Kenya is launching its first coast guard patrol in the history of the nation. President Uhuru Kenyatta says this initiative is needed to protect and monitor its territorial waters. Prior to t...
Voter suppression is real. Writing for The Daily Beast, The Burton Wire’s founder & editor-in-chief examines how Stacey Abrams’ refusal to bow to the pressure to concede and choose to fight voter suppression will ...
Writing for Black Press USA/NNPA, The Burton Wire’s Founder & Editor-in-Chief talks to then Georgia 6th District Congressional candidate Lucy McBath about her campaign, her motivation, God and her son Jordan. McBa...
Gemma Handy of the BBC is reporting on the 16,000 Caribbean men and women who volunteered to serve in WWI, also known as “The Great War,” as the world celebrates Veterans Day. Many of the service people were from the i...
Writing for The Root, journalist Kiratiana Freelon examines the quagmire of why some Afro-Brazilians may choose to vote for a de facto racist candidate even though it appears it would be against their interests. In the article, &...
The internet is in a tizzy over news Ethiopia has appointed its first woman president Sahle-Work Zewde. An experienced diplomat, Zwede, 68, was named to the ceremonial post by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who recently appointed a ca...
Caribbean 360 is reporting Gopi Venkat Rao, the head of Washington University’s Medical School (Barbados) has been arrested for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from students in India. Rao was led away in handcuffs fr...
Punch.com is reporting Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, co-founder of #BringBackOurGirls and Transparency International, announced Sunday she will run for president of Nigeria next year. Ezekwesili, 55, was a candidate for the 2018 Nobel ...
Writing for BlackPressUSA, The Burton Wire’s founder & Editor-in-Chief interviewed rising star Myles Truitt about his role in the science fiction film Kin, co-starring acclaimed actors Dennis Quaid, James Franco, Jack Re...
