5:02 PM / Wednesday April 14, 2021
October 17, 2010
“Conversations” was compiled with the 92-year-old former South African president’s blessing by a team of archivists, editors and collaborators who worked from decades of notes, letters, recorded conversations and other material.
October 11, 2010
American actor George Clooney is visiting the little known region of Southern Sudan. The U.N. Security Council arrived to a raucous welcome on Wednesday, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum also made a recent trip here.
October 1, 2010
Nearly nine months after the earthquake, more than a million Haitians still live on the streets between piles of rubble. One reason: Not a cent of the $1.15 billion the U.S. promised for rebuilding has arrived.
September 26, 2010
Pirates armed with Kalashnikov rifles clashed with Nigerian navy forces in a failed bid to take over an offshore oil platform, then kidnapped three French employees of a marine services company while retreating, a Nigerian official said Wednesday.
September 20, 2010
In the tradition of W.E.B. DuBois, Dr. Walters was an authentic intellectual, an action-oriented theorist who never wavered in his conviction that the lessons learned in the academy must be translated/applied in terms of activism in the community.
September 19, 2010
Half-buried in rubble, Bazelais Suy struggled to breathe , a dead woman lay on his chest. He knew he had to get her off, fast. Because he could still move his arms, he somehow managed to remove his belt, loop it around the woman’s own belt and drag her off. But his legs were still pinned.
September 4, 2010
Gunmen in eastern Congo fired last week on a private plane carrying international aid workers who escaped into the forest and were later rescued, aid workers from the International Medical Corps told The Associated Press.
August 29, 2010
The first Miss Haiti in 22 years is not the typical contestant you’d find in a beauty pageant. She is a young lawyer who speaks four languages and is happy to be able to help her country after the horrific earthquake that devastated the impoverished Caribbean nation last January.
August 23, 2010
Hip hop artist and presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean said that as leader he would work to change Haiti’s constitution to allow dual citizenship and give many Haitians living abroad the right to vote in their homeland.
August 23, 2010
In what’s being hailed as an unprecedented move that will boost buyer awareness of blood diamonds, a global diamond trading network has vowed to expel any member who knowingly trades gems from two Zimbabwe mines where laborers have been killed and children enslaved.
April 9, 2021
By Teresa Lundy For this edition of The Business Corner, I interviewed Naeemah Johnson, owner of Nbeauty...
April 9, 2021
ABOVE PHOTO: Tsebiyah Derry By Florence Anthony According to reports, fans of DMX’s rallied Easter Sunday outside...
April 9, 2021
BPT The sudden onset of stroke symptoms can happen to anyone at any time, making education about...
April 4, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on...
April 9, 2021
In the United States, Black and brown people are usually placed into the lowest caste, which often...
April 9, 2021
All Signs: This week the Sun and Mercury are dancing with lucky moneybags Jupiter, which is a...
