Herders and farmers from left, Adama Sow, Oumar Ba and Daka Sow walk outside Niéti Yone, northern Senegal, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson) Over cups of sweet green tea, the visitors promised to employ hundreds of locals and, one day, thousands, but then the project failed leaving behind heightened tensions among the impacted…
A white business owner’s alleged Facebook rant — filled with violent and racially offensive threats — ignited a firestorm of outrage and calls for an investigation. In the popular vacation spot of Hochatown, Oklahoma, Tracy Holt operates Tidy Up Cleaning, which services the many rental cabins dotting the area. Her former employee, Shatia Titus, claimed…
FILE – Saint Peter’s Jaylen Murray, left, and Latrell Reid celebrate after Saint Peter’s won a college basketball game against Purdue in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA tournament, March 25, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) In order to entice more recruits to stay home, lawmakers in several states have pushed to…
FILE – Students protesting against the war in Gaza, and passersby walking through Harvard Yard, are seen at an encampment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) The task force cut $400 million from Columbia University and threatened to slash billions more if it refused a list of demands from the…
Source: William Reagan / Getty For the better part of two centuries, a downtown square in Savannah, Georgia’s, oldest city, was named for a proud white supremacist. For the first time in 140 years, Savannah’s city council has succeeded in voting to rename the square, and it did so in honor of a Black woman…
A Southern California woman hopes lessons will be learned after her disturbing experience at a medical office. Kierra King visited Perlman Clinic in San Diego, seeking the standard professional health care expected from any doctor’s office or urgent care clinic when getting a test. However, a recent video shows that the patient was shocked to…
(Photo: C-SPAN) “These are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such,” said Senator Booker. U.S. Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., launched a marathon speech on the U.S. Senate floor on Monday evening in protest of several actions taken by President Donald Trump and his administration, vowing to go for hours…
FILE – The Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in Washington, April 5, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) The layoffs are expected to shrink HHS to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff. Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal on…
Shark investor Mark Cuban couldn’t hold his skepticism back as entrepreneurs Barrett Jacques and Crom Carmichael confidently pitched their product on “Shark Tank” during season 11, episode 1, promising America they could “have their cake and eat it too” with a miraculous weight-loss product. The billionaire investor’s famous poker face quickly dissolved into unmistakable outrage…
John Boyega is not holding his tongue when it comes to the lack of diversity in the “Star Wars” franchise. Boyega played the role of Finn in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015), making him the first Black lead in the film series. In the March 28 premiere of Apple TV’s “Number One on the Call…
