Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
(Reuters) – As the Netherlands marks on Monday 161 years since the abolition of slavery, activists have questioned the sincerity of recent apologies by Dutch authorities given they have not addressed the politically thorny issue of reparations....
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
Human Rights Watch All victims of gross human rights violations in Palestine and Israel are owed reparation, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch on June 26 submitted recommendations to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation o...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
(Geneva) – All victims of gross human rights violations in Palestine and Israel are owed reparation, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch on June 26 submitted recommendations to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions…He will find his own “proper place” and will stay in it…You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact,...
6 months ago
Rocky’s Barbershop owner Rocky Jones (lef) sitting next to former HUD Secretary Ben Carson during Wednesday’s Republican roundtable discussion. In the background there were pro-Trump campaign signs. Photo by Julia Beverly/The Atlanta Voi...
Lifestyle / Hot Topics Talk - 6 months ago
Four Missouri prison cops were charged Friday with murder, and a fifth with involuntary manslaughter, in the December execution of Othel Moore Jr., a 38-year-old brother at Jefferson City Correctional Center. The prison cops restrained Othel with a...
6 months ago
(CNN) — Police in Kenya fired tear gas on protesters as a fresh wave of demonstrations swept the country, despite President William Ruto’s U-turn on controversial tax plans.Fresh protests dubbed “One Million People March” began Thursday, with demonst...
Lifestyle / Hot Topics Talk - 6 months ago
Contributed CINCINNATI – Elm Street between Fifth and Sixth streets will close effective Monday, July 1. The closure is needed to make room for the renovation of the Duke Energy Convention Center, which will transform this stretch of Elm and a...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
Photos by: Monica Morgan Photography Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. – Psalm 23:6. With a solemn wave of remembrance and respect, the Detroit community nea...
6 months ago
The BET Awards return Sunday night, with a performance-filled show that will kick off with a fiery set from Megan Thee Stallion, two days after the release of her third studio album. The show, which takes place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angel...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
Photos by Monica Morgan Photography The Charles H. Wright Museum hosted an unforgettable event on Friday evening. Loved ones, acquaintances, and esteemed leaders gathered to honor Dr. William ‘Bill’ Pickard’s extraordinary life and...
6 months ago
WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — Conservative activists in Georgia and some other states are quietly pushing a way to remove names from the voting rolls without filing a formal legal challenge.They’re asking election administrators to use their data to purge vo...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 6 months ago
By Dánica CotoThe Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Beryl strengthened into what experts called an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm as it approached the southeast Caribbean, which began shutting down June 30 am...
Lifestyle / Hot Topics Talk - 6 months ago
By Mary Kate Cary, University of Virginia and Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University U.S. President Joe Biden and Donald Trump participate in the CNN Presidential Debate on June 27, 2024. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images With four months to go...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 6 months ago
Afrobeats stars Rema, Amaarae, Asake and Ayra Starr are coming to Afro Nation Detroit (Credit: X, Facebook, Capital FM Kenya).& If Black life had a soundtrack these days, it would be dominated by the pulsating grooves of Afrobeats, a fusion of B...
