How Much Do You Love Your Pets? · Last September 11, George, a 10-year-old goldfish, was admitted to the surgery ward of the Lort Smith Animal Hospital in Australia because he had a tumor on his head. To operate on George, Veterinarian Tristan Rich prepared three buckets of water. One had anesthetic water, the other Read More…
Awesome Moments · “So today this little boy came into the store and asked me ‘where do you guys have the cheapest shoes?’ so I showed him were they are. So I asked him. If these where for school. He said yea. I looked at his feet and saw the shoes that he was wearing Read More…
Roller-skating is part of the fabric of what it means to be a Black American. One man works to make sure the pastime endures for another generation. By Maya Eaglin and Nicolle Majette The mastermind behind The Roller Wave, a traveling roller disco pop-up, is trying to revive an activity that was once a cornerstone Read More…
EXCLUSIVE: Gainesville Police dogs violently injured Black people at more than double the national rate On March 3, Gainesville City Manager Cynthia Curry announced the Gainesville Police Department’s K-9 unit would be temporarily shelved until further review. The decision came as Gainesville considered upcoming budget cuts. However, after the mauling of Terell Bradley by Gainesville Read More…
What’s the context? The United States, Canada and the European Parliament have banned TikTok from federal devices due to security risks U.S. lawmakers are moving forward with legislation “to protect Americans” using TikTok from China, the House of Representatives speaker Kevin McCarthy has said, amid hot debate over calls for a ban on the video Read More…
Mildred Delores Loving and her husband, Richard Perry Loving were the defendants in the classic United States Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia. The Lovings were charged with interracial marriage under a Virginia law that prohibited such weddings, and they were compelled to leave the state to avoid being imprisoned. They had relocated to Washington, Read More…
We have laws to protect children from factory work. Why aren’t they protected from parents who monetise their lives online? When it’s dark outside, and the lights are on, I can see straight into my neighbour’s house. It’s a few days before Christmas, and she appears to be performing a mini Broadway show – in Read More…
Self-sacrifice…. is the biggest sacrifice of them all. 13-year-old Jordan was trapped in the 2011 Queensland floods, along with his younger brother, Blake, who was 10 at the time. When help finally arrived, time was quickly running out. And Jordan’s first words to those rescuers were: “Take my brother first.” Sadly, those were also Jordan’s Read More…
After 14-year-old Natasha Ryan vanished in 1998, authorities believed that she was the victim of a serial killer. But five years later, she turned up alive and well at his murder trial. Fairfax Media/Getty Images/Natasha Ryan, the “missing” Australian girl who hid at her boyfriend’s home for nearly five years. Natasha Ryan had run away Read More…
Researched and Compiled by Alonzo Hardy Southwest Georgia: African Methodist Episcopal Bishops With Deep Roots Joseph Simeon Flipper Joseph Simeon Flipper (1859-1944) was the 33rd Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and the third president of Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia. Joseph Simeon Flipper was born into slavery on February 22, 1859 Read More…
