Music icon Beyonce Knowles Carter has penned a letter to the late South African President and political prisoner Nelson Mandela days before her much celebrated performance at the Global Citizen Festival. Published in the South Afr...
Caribbean 360 is reporting former Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is calling for a national response to the number of women murdered by domestic partners in the country. In a statement released by the o...
BBC Latin America is reporting thousands of Cuban doctors who were pulled out of Brazil after inflammatory remarks made by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, have now been replaced. The author writes: “Brazil’s health min...
Writing for The Daily Variety, Kristopher Tapley explores how leading actor and producer Michael B. Jordan is leading the charge on diversifying Hollywood with his “inclusion rider,” a formal declaration of diverse hir...
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 ...
BBC Africa is reporting the country of Kenya is launching its first coast guard patrol in the history of the nation. President Uhuru Kenyatta says this initiative is needed to protect and monitor its territorial waters. Prior to t...
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 ...
Writing for Black Press USA/NNPA, The Burton Wire’s Founder & Editor-in-Chief talks to then Georgia 6th District Congressional candidate Lucy McBath about her campaign, her motivation, God and her son Jordan. McBa...
Gemma Handy of the BBC is reporting on the 16,000 Caribbean men and women who volunteered to serve in WWI, also known as “The Great War,” as the world celebrates Veterans Day. Many of the service people were from the i...
Writing for The Root, journalist Kiratiana Freelon examines the quagmire of why some Afro-Brazilians may choose to vote for a de facto racist candidate even though it appears it would be against their interests. In the article, &...
