Africa
State Supreme Court denies new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court in September 2024 denied Mumia Abu-Jamal’s sixth petition to reverse his 1982 conviction for the alleged murder of a Philadelphia police officer after a judge ordered the District Attorney’s office to release all files related to Mumia’s arrest and conviction. A request to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for permission to appeal…
Read MoreH. Rap Brown has died
H. Rap Brown, also known as Jamil Abdulllah Al-Amin, one of the most charismatic leaders of the Black Power Movement, died Sunday in the Federal Medical Center in North Carolina. He was 82. He was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, and he later served as the Black Panther Party‘s Minister…
Read MoreRev. Jesse Jackson has a brain injury
Jesse Jackson sufferming brain disorder.
Read MoreMacKenzie Scott donated millions to Howard Medical School
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, who worked and helped him build Amazon into a billion-dollar company, on Wednesday donated $17 million to Howard University College of Medicine to train needed physicians and another $63 million to Howard University. Her gifts come on top of a $64 million donation she made in 2020–$40 million–…
Read MoreSpike Lee and his wife, Tonya, are named ambassadors to Benin
The country or Benin has appointed American filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, a seasoned producer and author, as its ambassadors for African Americans in the US, which coincides with the country offering people of African descent a chance to visit and claim their citizenship if eligible. Benin’s southern coast has a…
Read MoreFormer Congressman Charles B. Rangel has died
Former Congressman Charles Rangle has died
Read MoreMade in Chicago
What do Pope Leo XIV, Barack Obama, and Michael Jordan have in common? They all hail from Chicago. Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope and the first Black pope since the Fifth Century, was born in Chicago. President Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, was born in Hawaii, but he lived much of…
Read MoreSenegal wants answers from France concerning a 1944 massacre
West African soldiers from Senegal were partners in arms with French soldiers fighting Nazis in World War 2. When the war ended, West African soldiers returned to their homes near Darkar, Senegal, but they did not receive a parade. Instead, they were slaughtered by the same French troops they once shared foxholes with. Recently French President…
Read MoreIllinois Supreme Court overturns actor’s conviction
The Illinois Supreme Court overturned actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction after ruling that the Cook County State’s attorney did not honor an earlier agreement by trying him a second time. The court ruled that a special prosecutor should not have been allowed to intervene after Smollett reached a deal with the Cook County state’s attorney in which…
Read MorePresident Biden speaks to dignitaries at the National Slavery Museum in Angola
President Joe Biden described slavery as “our nation’s original sin — original sin — one that haunted America and casts a long shadow ever since,” during a speech before officials of the National Slavery Museum in Belas, Angola. Estimates of the number of slaves shipped from Angola range from 2 million to 6 million. Most were…
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