Oxfam is an international confederation of charitable organizations focused on the alleviation of global poverty. Tuesday, 12 January 2010, a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, causing the deaths of 160,000 people. The government of Haiti estimated that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed […]
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the […]
Shame on you Loyola University. A sign posted earlier this week at the Damen Dining Hall on the university’s Rogers Park campus had encouraged students to “Try our African American cuisine popular in the African American […]
Hearkening back to the days of Marion Barry and his tryst with with former girlfriend, Rasheeda” Moore, in a sting operation Rep. Jon Stanard, Utah (R), has been caught with his pants down. Stanard, who was elected in […]
There’s an old saying in the South, “A child’s gotta eat their share of dirt.” I remember a trip my parents took me and my brothers on when we were young. We went to North […]
The Dow Jones plunged more than 1,000 points on Thursday in another volatile day for the stock market. It was the second-worst single-day point drop in history, beaten only by the record set after this Monday’s 1,175-point drop. […]
Andrew Rooney was an television writer who was best known for his weekly broadcast “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney”, a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. On this day in 1990, CBS […]
Dennis Edwards Jr. was a lead singer in The Temptations, on Motown Records. Edwards was born February 3, 1943 and passed away just 2 days before his birthday on February 1, 2018. He would have been 75 […]
Germaine “You Gonna Get Yours” Moore, 44, was arrested in Alabama in connection with a sexually explicit video featuring a young black child. He faces charges of sexual assault of a child, distribution of video depicting the assault of a […]
In 1926, Carter G. Woodson pioneered the celebration of “Negro History Week”, designated for the second week in February, to coincide with marking the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. However, it was the Black United Students and Black […]
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