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...
BBC Africa is reporting Africans trying to migrate to Europe are being sold into “slave markets” in Libya. The BBC reports: “Victims told International Organization for Migrants (IOM) that after being detained by...
Protesters took to the streets of Pretoria, South Africa’s administrative capital, to protest the presence of “foreigners” in the country based on the widespread belief that many are engaged in criminal activity ...
Reuters Africa is reporting security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 34 people during protests this week against President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to step down at the end of his mandate. The author wri...
