The majority of people of African descent, living in America, do not have the luxury of compartmentalizing our collective experience here in America, beginning with forced immigration, enslavement, the...
"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the United States still has trouble dealing with race because of a national "birth defect" that denied black Americans the opportunities given to whites at the country's very founding."Black Americans were a founding...
"Corrupt South American and Caribbean politicians need somewhere secure to retire to when they get done raping their countries, somewhere like Miami, the European ones prefer New York, the French-speaking Africans, Paris. "
"Census throws up treasure trove for trivia buffs
Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, Migration Correspondent
How many Presbyterian Pakistanis live in Ireland? Are there Chinese-born Travellers? Widowed teenagers? Most pressingly, how many Lithuanian immigrants live in semi-detached houses...
"The Nobel Prize-winning DNA pioneer James Watson has been suspended by his research institution in the US.
Dr Watson has drawn severe criticism over remarks he made in a British newspaper at the weekend.
In the interview, he was quoted as saying Africans were less...
When I lived in South Africa Playboy was illegal. It seems the country has now found its mojo:"JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans queued to learn about sex toys and pole-dancing this weekend, at the first sex fair ever held in a country founded by conservative...
"The Prime Minister called today for further action to end the genocide in Darfur, calling it one of the "great tragedies of our time".
Speaking at a Q+A session at his Party's conference, Mr Brown said that he didn't want to look back say "we should have acted, we could have...
I would imagine that being a prison colony guard or one of the architects of the land grab in the early days of OZ would be worse in modern eyes than being one of the people dragged into the southern hemisphere in...
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This post is based on an article from Time Magazine, Thursday, Apr. 26, 2007, written by Orlando Patterson. The article gives interesting detail of the earliest European settlers in America, at Jamestown. I have...
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The Clericus Cup, a Vatican-sponsored and Catholic-specific soccer tourney, continues until June with 16 teams and 311 players. My question is, who's watching the "flock" and hearing confession while these guys are...
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"Snow. Floods. Icy winds. Maybe even a tornado. South Africans are facing one of their harshest winters in years, with at least four deaths blamed on flooding from heavy rain that has caused travel delays in the...
"JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Snow. Floods. Icy winds. Maybe even a tornado. South Africans are facing one of their harshest winters in years, with at least four deaths blamed on flooding from heavy rain that has caused travel delays in the south and west of the country.While...
The president's top advisor will be a keynote speaker at the annual conference of a renowned extremist Mexican group that organized many of this year's pro-illegal immigration marches across the country.