In a photo gallery, Chantal Martineau of the Huffington Post shares different New Year’s Eve traditions that occur throughout the African Diaspora. Martineau highlights “Watch Night,” which began with pray...
Writing for The Guardian, Jamiles Lartey discusses the documentary, “Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland,” which premieres tonight at 10 p.m. on HBO. Lartey chats with Shante Needham, Sandra Bland’s...
Zaynab of Hot New Hip-Hop is reporting Egyptian actress Rania Yousseff is facing five years in prison for wearing a revealing dress on the red carpet of the closing ceremony of the 40th edition of the Cairo International Film Fest...
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 ...
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 ...
Caron Creighton of AP News is reporting Israel has passed a law cutting the pay of African Migrants by 20 percent. The money is held by the government and is only returned to them if they leave the country. Immigration activists s...
Six decades before social media and viral videos projected the unjust killings of African-Americans often by brutal police force, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. understood media, especially broadcast television, could raise public co...
Philip Reeves of National Public Radio (NPR) is reporting the U.N. is calling for an investigation into the assassination of Brazilian activist Marielle Franco. Franco campaigned for women’s rights and civil rights for black...
Caribbean 360 is reporting Fyre Festival promoter Billy McFarland plead guilty to fraud, admitting in a Manhattan (NYC) court he had falsified documents, defrauded 80 investors and a ticket vendor to the tune of $26 million. McFar...
BBC Africa is reporting two American and two Canadian citizens kidnapped Wednesday, January 17 have been released by their captors. The author writes: “The group, who were ambushed in a forested area north of the capital Abu...
