10:25 pm Weekend Review: Trump Commutes Sentence for Stone
3:18 pm Weeknd Review: Trump Stoke Division In Fourth Speech
6:09 am Experts Say Face Coverings Could Save 33,000 COVID-19 Deaths By October 1 In United States
5:23 am As COVID-19 Cases Soar In US WHO Worried The Same May Happen In Africa
10:01 pm Weekend Review: The Ongoing Fight Against Brutality
Trump Lashes Out at WHO to Distract from His Own Pandemic Failings
- Caring for Elders: Heartbreak and Guardian Abuse
- Female Genital Mutilation Still Legal In Amerca
- The Big Business Of Detaining Asylum Seekers And Refugees in America
- The Danger Of DuPont Chemical Contamination
- The Ghost Of Biafra: 51 Years After, The Flames Still Burns
- Nigeria: How Northerners Falsify Polio Result For UNICEF, WHO
Weekend Review: Trump Commutes Sentence for Stone
Weeknd Review: Trump Stoke Division In Fourth Speech
Experts Say Face Coverings Could Save 33,000 COVID-19 Deaths By October 1 In United States
As COVID-19 Cases Soar In US WHO Worried The Same May Happen In Africa
Weekend Review: The Ongoing Fight Against Brutality
World Health Organization Provides Detailed Update On ACT-Accelerator
Trump Lashes Out at Twitter With Executive Order on Social Media
Trump Lashes Out at WHO to Distract from His Own Pandemic Failings
Weekend Review: The Ongoing Fight Against Brutality
Justice has been somewhat slow for Breonna Taylor and Elijah McClain, but the officers involved in their respective deaths are finally under intensifying scrutiny as the fight against brutality is forcing legislative changes across the country. Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison, who was fired for his role in the death of Breonna Taylor in […]
Tuesday Primary Results from New York, North Carolina, and Kentucky
Voters in New York, Kentucky, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and Virginia took to the polls on Tuesday in a series of competitive primary races. Unlike the hectic and primaries that took place earlier in the month in Pennsylvania and Georgia, Tuesday’s contentious races occurred without many hitches. Some long lines with waits up to […]
Corruption Scandals Plague Trump Administration Amid Bolton and Barr Revelations
A week of scandals that might have destroyed any previous Presidency has shaken the Trump administration. Beginning with the release of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s tell-all book and culminating in a failed power play by Attorney General William Barr, a steady picture of corruption, obstruction of justice, and turmoil has spilled out of […]
Weekend Review: Transgender Health Protections Reversed on Anniversary of Pulse Tragedy
On Friday, the Trump administration finalized the removal of measures meant to protect transgender people from health care and insurance discrimination. In regards to medical discrimination based on sex, Former President Barack Obama’s administration had defined “gender identity” as “male, female, neither, or a combination of male and female.” The Trump administration has reversed the […]
Police Reform Bills Sweep the Nation in Wake of Protests
Two weeks of non-stop Black Lives Matter protests across the United States are starting to yield results. Protesters are demanding massive change, including defunding police forces entirely. While most localities are not willing to go that far, police reform bills are being proposed at nearly every level of governance. In cities, on the state level, […]
Georgia Primary Crippled by Claims of suppression
Georgia, an important swing state in November, faced major technical and logistical problems in Tuesday’s primary. Voters reported lines up to six hours line, sometimes wrapping around entire blocks, at polling places. Fulton County, which is home to Atlanta and has a large black population, faced some of the worse delays. Voters reported technical problems […]
Trump Losing Support Among Republican and Military Establishment Leadership
Reporting by the New York Times indicates that President Trump may be losing support among prominent Republican establishment leaders in 2020. While Trump won in 2016 without Republican establishment support, critics of the President hope that a collective rebuke of his leadership may help turn the tide against him. Outspoken critics have included Former U.S. […]
White Supremacist Iowa Rep Stephen King Defeated in Primary, and Other Election Results
Tuesday’s Republican primary in Iowa marked the end of Stephen King nine-term career in Congress representing Iowa’s 4th district. The incumbent was defeated by challenger Randy Feenstra by a decisive margin of nearly 10 points. The loss comes after Republican leadership stripped King of his committee assignments last year following remarks defending white supremacy. “White […]
Trump Lashes Out at Twitter With Executive Order on Social Media
On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order aiming to remove some protections online platforms currently have under the Communications Decency Act. The legality of the order is contested but, if upheld, it would make it easier for users to bring civil lawsuits against companies for censorship based on political views. The executive order comes […]
Trump Lashes Out at WHO to Distract from His Own Pandemic Failings
On May 18, President Trump sent a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) blasting their efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The factually inaccurate letter came after the first day of the WHO summit and issued an ultimatum to the organization – capitulate to Trump’s demands, or the United States would permanently […]
Experts Say Face Coverings Could Save 33,000 COVID-19 Deaths By October 1 In United States
According to data provided by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States had 43,556 new cases of COVID-19 (Coronavirus, 2019) on July 2. The following states have seen dramatic spikes in cases over the past several weeks, the number of new cases from Thursday is in parentheses. Florida (10,109)Texas (7,915)California (<4,000)Arizona (3,333) After originally stating United States citizens […]
As COVID-19 Cases Soar In US WHO Worried The Same May Happen In Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned the continent of Africa could see a drastic rise in COVID-19 (Coronavirus, 2019) cases similar to the current phenomena in the United States. Stats show a recent uptick in the United States is due to states not requiring masks, and those who refuse to mask or practice public distancing […]
World Health Organization Provides Detailed Update On ACT-Accelerator
“Two months ago, I joined President Emmanuel Macron, President Ursula von der Leyen and Melinda Gates to launch the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator) – a global initiative between multiple partners to ensure equitable access to life-saving tools for COVID-19,” said World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during his opening remarks during a June […]
After Relaxing Shut-Down Measures, Texas and Florida Face Predictable COVID-19 Spike
Only weeks after shirking guidelines from health officials, cases are spiking in a handful of Southern states. In the first Coronavirus Task Force Press Briefing in nearly two months, Dr. Anthony Fauci the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned that the flares up put the rest of the country at […]
Tuesday Primary Results from New York, North Carolina, and Kentucky
Voters in New York, Kentucky, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and Virginia took to the polls on Tuesday in a series of competitive primary races. Unlike the hectic and primaries that took place earlier in the month in Pennsylvania and Georgia, Tuesday’s contentious races occurred without many hitches. Some long lines with waits up to […]
Corruption Scandals Plague Trump Administration Amid Bolton and Barr Revelations
A week of scandals that might have destroyed any previous Presidency has shaken the Trump administration. Beginning with the release of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s tell-all book and culminating in a failed power play by Attorney General William Barr, a steady picture of corruption, obstruction of justice, and turmoil has spilled out of […]
Tensions Worsen on Korean Peninsula After Pyongyang Destroys Liason Office
On Tuesday, North Korea blew up their joint liaison office with South Korea in an act of unprecedented aggression in recent years. The office, which is in North Korea just north of the Demilitarized Zone, was a symbol of a new era of peace on the peninsula. The office had been closed since the start […]
Police Reform Bills Sweep the Nation in Wake of Protests
Two weeks of non-stop Black Lives Matter protests across the United States are starting to yield results. Protesters are demanding massive change, including defunding police forces entirely. While most localities are not willing to go that far, police reform bills are being proposed at nearly every level of governance. In cities, on the state level, […]
Georgia Primary Crippled by Claims of suppression
Georgia, an important swing state in November, faced major technical and logistical problems in Tuesday’s primary. Voters reported lines up to six hours line, sometimes wrapping around entire blocks, at polling places. Fulton County, which is home to Atlanta and has a large black population, faced some of the worse delays. Voters reported technical problems […]
Trump Losing Support Among Republican and Military Establishment Leadership
Reporting by the New York Times indicates that President Trump may be losing support among prominent Republican establishment leaders in 2020. While Trump won in 2016 without Republican establishment support, critics of the President hope that a collective rebuke of his leadership may help turn the tide against him. Outspoken critics have included Former U.S. […]
Social media fueling political activism across Africa
In Africa, where open anti-government demonstrations are shrinking due to increased clampdown from those in authorities, many activists are turning to social media as alternative means to protest against oppressive governments. The recent arrest and imprisonment of Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a renowned Ugandan lecturer and feminist has sparked widespread outrage over the use of social […]
Condoning White Supremacy: How The Media Rushed To Excuse Covington Catholic Incident
Last week by the Lincoln Memorial in the nation’s capital, a standoff between students from Covington Catholic high school and Native Americans threw America into a racial whirlwind. For a moment, it seemed like everyone had chosen a side and was ready to go to war over who was right and who was wrong. Initially, […]
Gun Violence And The Jazmine Barnes Story
Children and Gun Violence: Jazmine Barnes 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes and her three sisters accompanied their mother to the store in their pajamas in the early morning on December 30. The sun hadn’t risen when they headed out for breakfast supplies and someone opened fire on their vehicle near the store. Jazmine’s mother, LaPorsha Washington, was […]
Why Gentrification Needs To Be tackled At its Source In NYC
“Shabby, cottages have been taken over and have become elegant expensive residences… Once this process of ‘gentrification’ starts, it goes on rapidly, until all of the original working-class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed.” This 1964 quote from Ruth Glass, a British sociologist, is the first to coin […]
George H.W. Bush: A Life of Service
George Herbert Walker Bush, America’s 41st President, will be memorialized on Wednesday in the Nation’s Capital after passing away on November 30 at the age of 94. Roads are expected to be closed in the Metropolitan area as the late President is taken to the Washington National Cathedral for a 90-minute funeral. From there, his […]
Amazon’s HQ2 And What It May Mean For New York
This November the city of New York reached a deal with e-commerce behemoth Amazon that will see them build a second headquarters, “HQ2,” in the Long Island City area of Queens. It’s the largest economic development project in the history of the state and was hard won against the likes of New Jersey and others, […]
Winnie Mandela’s Legacy: A Clarion Call For Every African Woman
Last month, the world was awakened by the demise of a foremost South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela – Mandela. Fondly known as the ” Mother of the Nation ” by her supporters, apparently because of her tacit involvement in anti-apartheid South Africa struggles, or perhaps because […]
A close-look into the anarchist epicenter of Greece
Nestled in the boroughs of Greece’s capital city, between mount Lycabettus and the landmark archeological museum, Exarchia stands out. This curious neighborhood attracts many visitors who often, themselves, stand out as they are easy to spot due to their bewildered expressions while they survey the outlandish street art. Art which dwellers have grown used to […]
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Added Ibrahim Prize Award To Her Accolades
This week, 80-year-old Ellen Eugenia Johnson Sirleaf –Liberia’s first elected female head of state and 24th former president, was awarded the $5 million Ibrahim Prize for African Leadership. Sirleaf is also a previously renowned recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, along with her Liberian compatriot Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, for their […]
Why Senator Kamala Harris Could Be The First Black Female U.S President
The night of November 8th, 2016 is one that will live in the memories of many across America for decades to come. It was a day that altered the lives and perspectives of almost everyone who participated in the 200-year-old tradition of choosing the leader of the free world, The United States Of America. That […]
Biafra Vs One Nigeria
Caracal Reports Interview With Biafra Leaders New York
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