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SOS: Send Hospital Ships To Save Gaza’s Children
The article was written before the most recent cease-fire was announced.The statistics are just beginning to be analyzed—by UN agencies and a myriad of NGO’s whose mandates include salvaging young...
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Is America Really The Country of Decay And Political Dysfunction?
Does Speaker Boehner, seated behind Obama, look like he wants to work with the president?Despite these last few months of hot and lazy days, it’s been hard not to notice a cold political wind blowing...
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Stringer Voices Concern For Pre-K Safety As He Awaits NYC Contracts For Review
Comptroller Stringer still waiting to review hundreds of contracts from de Blasio administrationWith only one day remaining before the first day of school, the New York City Comptroller’s office has...
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Emotional Eating: Stop Abusing Your Mouth
Our moods have a lot to do with our eating habits.Emotional problems, such as unemployment, divorce, loneliness, or health problems can either decrease our appetite or encourage emotional eating. Even...
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Post Museveni: A Roadmap For Removing Dictatorship And Restoring Democracy...
Heil! Gen. Museveni, 28 years in power. Writer warns Ugandans to avoid chaos that engulfed Mexico after Porfirio Diaz's ousterPolitical marriage of convenience hasn’t worked in Uganda.Pressure is...
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CEMOTAP LECTURE: "Love & Struggle to Defeat Police Terror"
CEMOTAP The Committee To Eliminate Media Offensive to African People invites you to our monthly community forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. at 2:00 P.M.The speakers are the husband and wife duo...
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UBUNTU: MUSIC AND ARTS OF SOUTH AFRICA
Hugh Masekela -- the one and only A CITYWIDE FESTIVAL EXPLORING SOUTH AFRICAN ARTS & CULTUREOctober 8 to November 5, 2014WEEK ONE OF CARNEGIE HALL’S MONTH-LONG CITYWIDE FESTIVAL FEATURES CONCERTS,...
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College Football 2014 Is Playoff Bound
In the first ever playoffs this year for college football; will it be Florida State? After so much ado….and so many years, I’ve managed to lose count—the NCAA has cried “uncle” to the intense arm...
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While U.S. Economic Rebound's Better Than Europe's, The Grass Isn't Greener
Republicans push for 'austerity', which has failed Europe's economies; President Obama has fought, fruitlessly, for more jobs programsNews last month showed that the Eurozone countries had a bad second...
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How "Recline Rage" Results In Flying Unfriendly Skies
Air crises nowadays can be sparked by rage and reclining seatsI’ll never forget the first I ever flew on an airplane. It was back during the late 1970’s.For summer vacation, my family flew from...
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Lawyers’ Committee Welcomes Federal Probe Of Ferguson Police
Ferguson Police chief Tom Jackson The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) applauds today’s announcement by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to launch a civil rights...
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Judge Okays $41 Million Central Park Settlement -- NYC Still Maintains No...
The Central Park 5 shown left to right: Kharey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam-- exonerated and now getting some measure of 'compensation'Mayor de Blasio and...
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Voters Do The Right Thing And Send Zephyr Teachout To Albany
Since its inception, the Blackstar News has been on the vanguard of investigating and reporting corruption at every level of New York government.We recognize that political corruption undermines every...
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America On Trial: White Supremacy And The Discriminatory Justice System
Michael Brown, a victim of "broken windows." His alleged crime was walking on the street instead of on a sidewalkThe release of two African-American men from prison in North Carolina after 30 years of...
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Deconstructing Gen. Museveni's Vampire Regime In Uganda
Generalissimo Museveni -- after 28 years gearing for another rigged electionThe great majority of people in Uganda, with a growing political consciousness forged by their suffering and mobilization...
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BROOKLYN-- CELEBRATE AFRICA MONTH 2014: “SYMBOLS OF SPIRITS”
Eric Edwards and part of his impressive collection Exhibition and Gala Celebration. Forty Four Years Of African Artifacts CollectingDates: September 26 through October 7, 2014Reception: Tuesday,...
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KIDS OF AFRICA “RUN FOR FUN” - SUNDAY 5th OCTOBER2014
KIDS OF AFRICAKids of Africa, a Swiss initiative, is a children’s home operating in Uganda. It takes care of 94 abandoned children in ten family homes, each headed by a loving foster mother. Kids of...
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GREENPEACE TAKES AIM AT SOUTH AFRICAN AIR-BORNE KILLER COAL DUST
Sep. 8 (GIN) – Environmental activists at Greenpeace Africa have launched a global campaign to block efforts by Eskom, South Africa’s public power utility, to release more polluting coal dust in the...
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BUYERS FLEE NIGERIA, LEAVING OIL SPILL CLEAN-UP STALLED – MARCH PLANNED
Sep. 8 (GIN) – Angola’s crude oil is proving sweet to U.S. buyers who are snapping it up as fast as they are dropping purchases from Nigeria, according to data released by the U.S. Energy Information...
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Atlanta Hawks' Levenson Earns Big Money The Old Fashioned Way: Plain Dirty
Levenson -- wanted more milk in his coffeeWelcome to Bruce Levenson's “Dirty South,” where Levenson believed that White people were uncomfortable attending Hawks games at Philips Arena in downtown...
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