CNN.com is reporting that bananas were thrown at Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s first black minister of integration. Holly Yan, Lauren Russell and Boriana Milanova of CNN report: “Racist taunts against Italy’s first blac...
CNN.com is reporting that bananas were thrown at Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s first black minister of integration. Holly Yan, Lauren Russell and Boriana Milanova of CNN report: “Racist taunts against Italy’s first blac...
Ben Tavener of The Rio Times is reporting that Pope Francis traveled to Brazil for the 2013 World Youth Day (WYD). Tavener writes: “…[Pope Francis] was greeted by tens of thousands of pilgrims in the center of Rio on M...
Writing for New York Magazine, Keli Goff examines the history of black supermodels in the wake of the recent groundbreaking strides made by black models in the fashion industry. She writes: EXCERPT “Fashion has a notoriously...
The women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority will be hosting their 51st national convention in Washington, DC this weekend as part of a year-long celebration of their 100th anniversary. The sorority will kick off this leg of its Centen...
“If the colored people of South Carolina had been accorded the same advantages—if they had had the same wealth and surroundings which the gentleman from New York has had, they would have shown to this nation that their color was n...
The verdict is in – Brazil defeated Spain in the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil. “The best in the world” eliminated “the best in history” at the legendary Maracanã, with a final score of 3-0. The h...
ESPNFC.com is reporting that Brazil and Spain will face-off in the Confederations Cup final on Sunday, June 30, 2013. For those who don’t follow soccer, this match-up is a big deal and it is unfolding in the Maracanã, which...
Writing for AllAfrica.com, Amnesty International has called on Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan to veto a Same Sex Marriage prohibition bill that was passed on May 30 by Nigeria’s House of Representatives. The aut...
“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born fre...