Writing for Courier Newsroom, The Burton Wire’s founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton discusses the misplaced anger surrounding the national uprisings against police brutality in response to the killing of George Fl...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have heard the most recent high-profile case of the killing of Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old woman, who was shot and killed by former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean, whil...
Relieved is reporting Theresa Kachindamoto has come to power as a chief in Monkey Bay Malawi and has ended child marriages. Even though the practice was made illegal in 2015, girls as young as 12 were still married to adult men wi...
Today is Juneteenth (June 19th)! Juneteenth.com refers to this special day for many African Americans as the ‘oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States.’ The author writes: “Dating back to 1...
The world is mourning the loss of rapper and philanthropist Nipsey Hussle who was killed over the weekend in front of his Marathon clothing store in Los Angeles, CA. Born Ermias Asghedom, Hussle was an entrepreneurial rapper who b...
Mucad Ibrahim, 3, is the youngest victim of the Mosque attacks that took place in New Zealand in March. According to Carol Kuruvilla of Huffington Post, Ibrahim was separated from his family during the attack at Christchurch’...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s J.D. Capelouto is sharing new details about the arrest of Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage the morning of Superbowl LIII. The U.S. Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) arrested Sha Yaa Bin Abr...
The Associated Press’ Joseph Mwihia is reporting Al-Shabab extremists have claimed responsibility for the attack on the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi Kenya. He writes: “Al-Shabab — the Somalia-based group that carried out t...
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...
