UN Votes on Landmark Arms Trade Regulation Treaty
Colum Lynch of The Washington Post is reporting that the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday voted in favor of a...
U.S.: Obama to Award Medal of Honor to 19 Victims of Discrimination
The Washington Post is reporting that United States President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest commendation...
Zimbawe President Mugabe Attends Pope’s Inauguration
AllAfrica.com is reporting that President Robert Mugabe was in Italy on Tuesday for the inauguration mass for Pope Francis, bypassing a...
Akosua Report: Joseph Hayne Rainey
“If the colored people of South Carolina had been accorded the same advantages—if they had had the same wealth and surroundings...
Zimbawe President Mugabe Attends Pope's Inauguration
AllAfrica.com is reporting that President Robert Mugabe was in Italy on Tuesday for the inauguration mass for Pope Francis, bypassing a...
VIDEO: Chinua Achebe Discusses Colonization and Africa
African literary legend Chinua Achebe died last week at the age of 82. While re-reading, re-imagining and revisiting his work, we...
Knowledge is Power; Not Knowing is Privilege
It has long since been understood that knowledge is power. Women and other subjugated voices have recognized that those who control...
Mali: Prime Minister Diarra Forced to Resign
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The Associated Press is reporting that Mali's Prime Minister Cheikh Modibo Diarra, 60, has been arrested and forced to resign. Diarra...
Lupita Nyong’o Named New Face of LancĂ´me
Vanity Fair is reporting that Academy award-winning actress and fashion darling Lupita Nyong'o has been named the new face of LancĂ´me...
Akosua Report: Alain Locke
"Negro life is not only establishing new contacts and founding new centers, it is finding a new soul. There is a...