Citi Rescue Talks Underway

"The market shrugged off the prospect of a Citigroup meltdown and focused instead on the leak that Timothy Geithner was Obama's pick for Treasury Secretary. Citi fell another 20%, its shares dropping below $4. Have banking catastrophes become so routine that it is now...

REPORT SAYS WE'RE CREATING 'SUPER-CRIMINALS': 'Many Young Black Men are Killi...

""A handful of their killers, speaking from prison, describe an environment where violence is so woven into the culture that murder has become a symbol of manhood," wrote May. "The inmates say the only difference between these neighborhoods and prison is the absence of walls....

Venezuelans of Cuban descent use heritage to enter U.S.

In a recent conversation with a Cuban dissident in Venezuela he referred to his current view of the political situation as 'Deja vu'. For some this political change in  Venezuela is nothing more then a replay of  Castro's Revolution. How are things different? Could...

Critical Latinidad (Are Latino Studies leaving out the Black side of our cult...

My good fortune was to spend my childhood with my grandparents in Puerto Rico. The shades of my culture were ever present. My grandfather Black & grandmother white, my other grandfather white with blond hair, blue eyes & grandma mulatta. These wonderful people each...

Narcotics officers in Ghana Arrest 16-year-old London Girls

"Two British teenage girls charged in Ghana with carrying cocaine worth £300,000 have claimed they were "set up" to carry the drugs back to England.Yasemin Vatansever, 16, the London-born daughter of immigrants from Cyprus, and Yatunde Diya, 16, also a British citizen of...

True or False Ethiopian Born Noah Samara Invented Satellite Radio?

"Noah Samara, photo courtesy of Wikipedia The answer is true. The same country that has brought the world the likes of the world’s richest person of African descent Mr. Mohammed Al Amoudi has also brought the world Noah Samara. Mr. Samara is indeed the founder and CEO of...