Between 1983 and 1985, a deadly cocktail of adverse events, including recurring drought, failed harvests, food scarcity, two decades of wars, and other anti-government conflicts raged throughout northern Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea. These events ultimately led to the Ethiopian famine. The famine killed 1.2 million people and compelled 400,000 more to flee the country. In 1984…
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks in the library at Mar-a-Lago on March 4, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. | Source: Alon Skuy / Getty Donald Trump just might be the most effective propagandist we’ve seen in generations. Mind you, he’s not effective because he’s objectively smart, cunning or universally influential. Trump has…
Source: Cliff Hawkins / Getty Former NBA star Charles Barkley appears to have come a long way from four years ago when he was essentially siding with Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in defending the cops who killed Breonna Taylor. Now, the man who is always one off-color remark away from sounding like a Black conservative lapdog…
A law clerk hired recently by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas amid allegations of bigotry cleaned up her public image by recasting the narrative surrounding the 2015 incident in which she was accused of sending a racist text message to a former colleague, the New Yorker reports. Crystal Clanton, who graduated from George Mason University’s…
Kanye West has not given up on his efforts to shape the minds of the youth, including his own children, with his controversial tuition-backed school, Donda Academy. Instead, the unpredictable artist has revamped the institution amid an ongoing legal battle with former staff. The unaccredited school that opened its doors in 2021 in Simi Valley,…
Source: HUM Images / Getty A recent report claims that the Trump administration had easy access to prescription medications in large amounts, with doctors behaving “like the Wild West”. A follow-up to a report from the Inspector General of the Department of Defense that criticized the White House Medical Unit during the Trump administration reveals…
The charges against a Guatemalan teen blamed for causing the death of a Florida police officer have been officially dropped. It comes after Virgilio Aguilar Mendez’s attorneys argued that the teen was not responsible for St. Johns County Sgt. Michael Kunovich’s fatal heart attack — which happened following an encounter between the two in May 2023. Mendez…
A Washington State police officer is under fire for making insensitive comments about a 23-year-old Indian woman who was fatally struck by his colleague. Jaahavi Kandula, a graduate student at Northeastern University Seattle campus, had the right of way and was crossing the street in a crosswalk when Officer Kevin Dave hit her in January 2023. Dave…
Actress and comedian Nika King has been keeping busy on the stand-up comedy circuit during the hiatus of the popular series “Euphoria.” “Euphoria” is the second most-watched show in the cable channel’s history. The series revolves around the tumultuous life of 17-year-old Rue, a drug addict fresh from rehab with no intentions of maintaining sobriety,…
As former president Donald Trump tried to throw jabs at President Joe Biden during a Virginia rally by calling him “the worst president … who is cognitively impaired, in no condition to lead,” he mixed up the name of the sitting president with past leader Barack Obama – who hasn’t served as commander-in-chief in seven…
