A Californian city has announced it is officially terminating its partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as protests continue in Los Angeles over immigration raids. Why It Matters Immigrant rights advocates and protesters squared off against federal authorities over the weekend in response to the White House’s immigration enforcement Read More…
At 37, Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traoré stands as the world’s youngest head of state, a figure Western media often paints as a “corrupt warlord”—a leader who, they claim, siphons gold from his country, rules as a dictator, and delays democracy. Yet locals chant “IB, IB!” in the streets, hailing him as a patriot on a mission to “Make Burkina Faso Read More…
Breshari Faulkner, a 31-year-old African American mother from Senatobia, Mississippi, was forcibly arrested by police in front of her children on Mother’s Day after being confronted in a Walmart parking lot while parked in a handicap space. The arrest occurred on May 11 in Senatobia, where Faulkner says she was waiting for her disabled grandmother, Read More…
On a Thursday evening in March 2004, 15-year-old twin sisters Janelle and Jalisa Morgan left Murphy Middle School in Augusta, Georgia, just as they always did. They cut through familiar streets, stopped at their cousin’s apartment for cable TV and frozen pizza, then made their way to the Pump-N-Shop gas station on 12th Street. Security Read More…
Despite dealing with stigma and accusations related to witchcraft, Waweru pressed on, motivated by her conviction in the potential of snails as both a food source and pets. Photo credit: Kenya News Agency Wangui Waweru has struck gold with snails. After accidentally eating snail meat in 2017, her newfound fascination with the shelled creatures led Read More…
Steve Gary Jones Jr. is a former African American employee from Maryland who worked for the CIA for more than a decade, but was allegedly fired over a rap song. Now, he is making waves with his explosive new tell-all memoir, Closed Letter: Racism in the CIA, which details his controversial firing from the Central Intelligence Read More…
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