Sandra Gonzalez of CNN is reporting rapper Kendrick Lamar has won a Pulitzer Prize for his fourth studio album “Damn.” Lamar is the first rapper to win the music award. Previous award winners have come from the classic...
BBC Africa is reporting anti-Apartheid activist and freedom fighter Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died. The former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, “succumbed peacefully in the early hours...
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...
Thomas Naadi of BBC Africa is reporting students and politicians are joining forces to protest against a security cooperation agreement with the United States. Naadi writes: “A group called Ghana First, made up students and ...
Filmmaker and editor Samuel D. Pollard vividly remembers taking the subway from 96th Street to 72nd Street in his hometown, East Harlem, N.Y., as a kid. The further he traveled, the more the Emmy and Peabody award winner would not...
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...
The New York Times is reporting Ghana is a contender for having one of the world’s fastest growing economies. Ghana’s status change from struggling economy to robust economy is due to the rapid expansion of the nation&...
The countdown has begun to one of the most anticipated superhero films in movie history. Marvel’s Black Panther hits theaters Friday, February 16, 2018. This game changing history making film is breaking advance ticket sales...
BBC Africa is reporting South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma has resigned. Zuma has battled corruption charges since before assuming the presidency in 2009. In 2016, Zuma was ordered by South Africa’s constitutional court to ...
