3,000 Illegal immigrants used fake Quebec health cards: Report

Barry Artiste Op/EdAnd one wonders why Americans accuse Canada as a "Porous Sieve" for Illegals walking into our Country with many keeping an illegal eye in getting in the Good Ole USA. I guess the USA is right...

In Obama's rise, Kenyans see lessons for Africa

Obama's election showsthat it is possible for aminority person to leada country."For Africans, the election of a young black man with direct roots in Africa has a resonance that goes far beyond home-town ...

An African Connection in Iraq

Jalal Diyaab, a leader of the Free Iraqi Movement, seeking recognition of those of African descent living in Iraq as a minority with rights to be protected, has stated: People here see us as slaves. They...

Row in Nigeria over Obama money

"A Nigerian group backing US senator Barack Obama for president has told the BBC the money it raised from a gala event was never meant for his campaign. It is illegal for campaign groups outside the United States to donate funds to US political parties. Earlier this week,...

U.S. Congress Apologizes for Slavery

On Tuesday evening, July 29, 2008, House Resolution 194 was passed by voice vote. This bill represents the first time the federal government has apologized for slavery or segregation. The bill was first...

The 'Race' Card

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...

Rice hits U.S. 'birth defect'

"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...

Why America might be in less danger from the outside than you think

"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

"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...

Lab suspends DNA pioneer Watson

"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...

Once-puritan South Africa holds its first sex fair

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...

We will 'play our part' in Africa, says PM

"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...

Australian Convict Ancestor Database

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...

The Root of the Problem

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...

Clericus Cup: Soccer for the God-fearing set

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...

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