A nursing home executive, who was fired because she is black, has been awarded a $6 million payout in a New Jersey discrimination suit. Rebecca McCarthy in a lawsuit against Care One claimed she was discriminated against when a senior vice president of the facility Alison Fitzpatrick-Durski told her: “I […]
Lupita Nyong’o believes race is a “social construct” because, growing up in Kenya, she never thought of herself as “Black”. The 36-year-old Pisces was born in Mexico but raised in Kenya, which gave her a different perspective on race and racism in Black America. She tells BBC Newsnight that she […]
One month ago, a 14-month-old child named Temperance died after she drowned in the bathtub. Her mother, Grace Ferguson, tried to resuscitate her, to no avail. She held Temperance’s hand as doctors attempted to do the same. Not long after, she was holding her hand in the hospital after she […]
A ferry crew found 25 migrants in a refrigerated container on a boat sailing from the bus to Britain on Tuesday, emergency services said. Migrants Found Alive…. The cargo vessel bound for Felix stowe returned to the Dutch port of Vlaardingen, near Rotterdam, as soon as the stowaways were found, […]
An African American man wrongfully imprisoned for 23 years has received a $7 million in settlement. City officials in New York and New Haven, Conn., agreed to pay Derrick Hamilton, 54, the amount to settle a lawsuit he had filed against three police officers for fabricating evidence against him in […]
Africa’s population is the fastest growing in the world. It is expected to increase by roughly 50% over the next 18 years, growing from 1.2 billion people today to over 1.8 billion in 2035. In fact, Africa will account for nearly half of global population growth over the next two […]
In Nigeria, the Governor of Lagos Babajide Sanwo-Olu has begun a controversial crackdown on noisy churches and mosques, following scores of petitions to the environmental protection authority from people angry about the conversion of residential properties into places of worship on noise pollution. While faith-based values remain a core inspiration to the […]
Mahatma Gandhi’s statue has been removed from the University of Ghana, after claims that the Indian leader was racist. Mahatma Gandhi’s statue which was unveiled in 2016 by India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee, was removed after University of Ghana lecturers started off a petition in which they cited passages written by […]
A pregnant Alysia Montano runs in the opening round of the women’s 800 meter run during day 2 of the USATF Outdoor Championships at Hornet Stadium on June 26, 2014 in Sacramento, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) In 2014, Alysia Montano was 8 months pregnant with her first child […]
Walk down a street in many parts of the continent, you are bound to find a good number of churches and mosques. In Nigeria a lot of the areas which boast of many churches and mosques do not have good roads, and most importantly, access to primary healthcare is a […]
