Deborah Bloom of CNN Africa is reporting 60,000 people, mostly women and children, are fleeing South Sudan into neighboring countries to escape violence. Reportedly 111 people were killed over the weekend in clashes outside of Jub...
Fresh from our, “Is it 1816 or 2016” file, multiple news media outlets are reporting the Hancock County Board of Elections and Registration has been “systematically questioning the registrations of more than 180” black...
It humbles National Urban League (NUL) president and CEO Marc H. Morial to hear his name mentioned in the same sentence as baseball legend and civil rights icon Hank Aaron. The accomplished organizational leader stood in high cott...
The Guardian, which has been offering live coverage of the Oscar Pistorius trial, is reporting the convicted murderer of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was sentenced to six years in prison. Once again, Judge Thokozile Masipa failed to...
Reuters Africa is reporting at least six people were killed when gunmen sprayed two buses with bullets on Friday in Kenya’s Mandera county on the border with Somalia, a regional official said. Mandera County Commissioner Fre...
BBC News is reporting a Kenyan High Court has dismissed a case challenging the legality of anal tests as proof of homosexuality. The author writes: “Two men, who say Kenyan police forced them to undergo the procedure to prov...
A couple’s son is missing in Japan (right now) because they left him in the wilderness to teach him a lesson, but folks want to start a petition to have the child who wandered into the gorilla pit at Cincinnati zoo removed f...
CBS Local (Baltimore) is reporting arresting officer Edward Nero has been found not guilty on all counts by Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams Monday morning. The article states: “Nero faced second-degree assa...
Reuters Africa is reporting an Egyptian court on Saturday sought the death penalty for three journalists and three others charged with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and documents to Qatar. The final ruling...
Brendan O’Brien of Reuters is reporting 11 women have reached a settlement with a California wine train company they sued for $11 million for racial discrimination after they were kicked off the train for being too loud, the...
