Shows to Address the Lack of Diversity in News Programming PA -– Three years ago, three black fathers, Marquis Lupton, William Way Jr., and Brandon Way Sr. decided to do something about the lack of diversity in their regional news stations. Building off of Marquis’ decade long journalism career, the three fathers decided to launch Read More…
Education
Former Gang Member Wins Missouri’s Teacher of the Year Award
MO — Darrion Cockrell, who had a rough childhood and became a gang member before he turned 10-years old, turned his life around and has now been named as Missouri’s 2020 Teacher of the Year. As a child, Cockrell said he took education for granted and joined a gang when he thought he had no Read More…
Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala opposed by United States for WTO top job
The United States says it is not backing former Nigeria finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to be the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization. America’s opposition to her candidature comes after the three WTO ambassadors charged with the task of finding the next WTO chief settled on the Nigerian, Reuters has reported. The choice of Read More…
From slave to architect, meet the South Carolina man who built America’s biggest bridges in the 1800s
Horace King had all the odds against him as he was born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation. He, nevertheless, rose to become a prolific architect and the most respected bridge builder in west Georgia, Alabama, and northeast Mississippi from the 1830s until the 1880s. King built a number of massive bridges, industrial facilities, Read More…
Amina, one of few warrior queens who ruled an African kingdom
One of the greatest warriors ever to emerge from Africa in the sixteenth century was Queen Amina of Zazzau. Like the great Nzingha of Angola, Queen Amina’s leadership skills were discovered early by her grandfather who allowed her to attend state meetings. Her mother, the Queen Bakwa of Turunku, an influential political figure in Amina’s Read More…
Andamanese: The almost extinct dark-skinnedpeople of India
They were also called the ‘Negritos’ The Andamanese are comprised of the five large tribes mentioned above; the Great Andamanese on Strait Island are speculated to be 50 in number, the Jarawa of the Jarawas of the Great Andaman archipelago, the Jangil of Rutland Island, the Onge of Little Andaman, and the Sentinelese of North Read More…








