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…
The choice of Marva Johnson as the 13th FAMU president rattled many in the Rattler Nation. In an 8-4 vote after an emotional meeting, in which some trustees called the vote a “foregone conclusion,” the Board of Trustees tapped the vice president of the internet and cable TV company Charter Communications to take the reins of the 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…
T. Willard Fair, the Urban League of Greater Miami’s president and CEO, has worked with the organization for more than 60 years. He had a prominent voice in the community, both experiencing and contributing to integration and other forms of progress within the city, and sharing his bold points of view with The Miami Times. Read More…
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