Chief Justice Tiffany Sellers shot to fame last year when news broke that she and seven other black women make up the entire leadership of the criminal justice system of South Fulton, Georgia.
An investigation has been launched by the World Food Programme and Ugandan government into deaths linked with the distribution of fortified porridge to refugees and people in the northeastern Karamoja region.
In a presentation about leadership values and sportsmanship to athletes of Madison High School on Saturday, Joe Piro, who is the Athletic Director of Nutley High School in New Jersey and was a guest speaker juxtaposed photos of Martin Luther King Jr. and Adolf Hitler, describing the former Nazi leader as ‘good leader’ with ‘bad moral character and intentions,’ according to NorthJersey.com.
The2018edition of the Times Higher Education World Rankings, which lists the best universities in the world, was unveiled on Thursday, February 22. In its ranking of the 200 best African universities, Togo, like French-speaking universities, remains largely underrepresented among the lucky women elected.
1. The town that now lies the Central Park: Seneca Village, N.Y.
One of the exclusive black towns in America is Seneca Village which was located in the present day Central Park. Seneca was founded by Epiphany Davis and Andrew Williams who were both African-American in 1825.
A Connecticut woman has sued Harvard University for allegedly making money out of early images of African slaves who she claims are her ancestors.Tamara Lanier, who filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Massachusetts, claims that the images, which were taken in 1850, depict an African man called Renty, who was her great-great-great-grandfather, and his daughter Delia.
Many Hollywood movie stars often like to have a hobby to escape to when they’re not acting, and for Morgan Freeman, that’s his bees. The 81-year-old first began his foray into beekeeping back in 2014 and has since converted his 124-acre ranch into a giant bee sanctuary.
TheHighCourt in Kenya has ordered the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) to pay $14,000 to a woman for using her photo in marketing materials without her consent.
When the television show “Beverly Hills 90210” first hit the airwaves on October 11, 1991, it was Luke Perry’s 24th birthday. That’s when the nation was introduced to his character Dylan McKay, a high school rebel with a soft side and awe-inspiring sideburns.
Sydney Aiello escaped the horrific Valentine’s Day slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with her life.But just over a year later, she became gunman Nikolas Cruz’s 18th victim.