Ebola: Trinidad May Postpone 2015 Carnival Over Fears
Caribbean 360 is reporting that the National Carnival Commission (NCC) may postpone Carnival celebrations in 2015 due to fears associated with...
Kenyans Challenge Foreign Coverage of Elections on Twitter
Caitlin Dewey of the Washington Post is reporting that Kenyans have taken to Twitter to challenge naysayers and members of the...
Sochi 2014: Sochi Mayor Says No Gay People Here
BBC News is reporting that Anatoly Pakhomov, mayor of Sochi, site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, has said that no gay...
The Burton Wire’s Top Ten News Stories of 2015
The Burton Wire (TBW) has covered many stories throughout 2015 including news from the Caribbean, the U.S., Canada, the UK and...
United States: Check out PBS’ Africa
A joint venture between Thirteen/WNET New York's NATURE and National Geographic Television, AFRICA is an eight-part series, shot in widescreen, super...
Somalia's New President Survives Assassination Attempt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvA1xpR6Smg&feature=plcp
ZeeNews.com is reporting that Somalia's newly elected president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, who survived an assassination attempt two days after being elected, was...
R&B Legends 'The Temptations' Lose Another Member
The Urban Daily is reporting that the legendary R&B group the Temptations has lost another member. You may recall last week,...
Zurbano Demoted After Op-Ed on Discrimination Against Black Cubans?
The Root is reporting that Roberto Zurbano, a top editor at Cuban publishing house Casa de las Americas has been demoted...
HBCUs: Blacks in Technology Convening at Stanford
NPR is reporting that representatives from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are meeting this week to talk about African Americans...
Black Florida GOP House Candidate Calls for Obama to be Hanged
Stephen A. Crockett of The Root is reporting that on the national day of reflection for Martin Luther King's birthday, an...
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