Steve Biko Archive Published by Google
BBC Africa is reporting that the Steve Biko South Africa Archive has been published by Google. Thirty-five years after the death of...
Barbados: University CEO Venkat Rao Arrested for Fraud
Caribbean 360 is reporting Gopi Venkat Rao, the head of Washington University's Medical School (Barbados) has been arrested for allegedly stealing...
PHOTO GALLERY: Legendary Actress and Activist Ruby Dee Dies
The world is mourning the loss of legendary stage and screen actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee who died on Wednesday...
Kendrick Johnson: New Footage Released in the Case
CNN's Victor Blackwell is reporting that new surveillance video released Wednesday in the case of Kendrick Johnson, a Georgia teen found...
Rihanna Makes it to Harvard: Receives Humanitarian Award
Pop superstar Robyn Rihanna Fenty was awarded the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award on March...
Why is Education So Low on the Political Totem Pole?
OPINION
by
Rhonda J. Summey, Ed.D.
Joblessness, hopelessness and a lifetime dependency on the government—this is what Condoleezza Rice said would result if the...
Ne-Yo’s Giving Tour: R&B Whiz Gives Children Education and More
The Compound Foundation (TCF), co-founded by singer/songwriter Ne-Yo, recently completed a four-city, four-day Giving Tour. The nonprofit organization’s tour stops gave...
Educating Black Kids: Obama’s White House Initiative Offers Hope
OPINION
by
Dr. Rema Reynolds
During his speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), President Obama talked passionately about education. He stated, “No parent...
bell hooks: Womanist, Activist and Intellectual Giant Dies at 69
Linda Blackford of the Lexington Herald-Ledger is reporting world renowned scholar, activist, womanist, professor and public intellectual bell hooks has died...
Nicholas Kristof on 'Half the Sky,' Impact of Women on Development
As a storyteller—in his journalism as well as in his books—it would be unfitting if Nicholas Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New...
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