by News Headlines | Aug 16, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines, Pre-Colonial Africa
Historian and broadcaster David Olusoga’s book Black and British has been revised and rewritten especially for teen readers in this edition published last year. An informative and enlightening read, Black and British – A Short Essential History is perfect for...
by News Headlines | Apr 28, 2021 | Black New-US, Current News Headlines, Pre-Colonial Africa
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will begin sharing its entire stock of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines with the world once it clears federal safety reviews, the White House said Monday, with as many as 60 million doses expected to be available for export in the coming...
by News Headlines | Apr 28, 2021 | Current News Headlines, Pre-Colonial Africa
A United Nations report warns that the slow implementation of a revitalised peace accord in South Sudan risks pushing the country back into a “large-scale conflict”. Political, military and ethnic divisions in South Sudan are widening, leading to multiple violent...
by News Headlines | Apr 28, 2021 | Current News Headlines, Pre-Colonial Africa
“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed,” declared American abolitionist Frederick Douglass in an 1852 speech. He was referring to the futility of arguing the wrongfulness of slavery to a nation whose founding documents declared...
by News Headlines | Apr 28, 2021 | Black New-US, Current News Headlines, Pre-Colonial Africa
But the 72-year-old Honduran lawyer, like so many others in his country, is still waiting. And increasingly, he is wondering why the United States is not doing more to help, particularly as the American vaccine supply begins to outpace demand and doses that have been...
by News Headlines | Apr 28, 2021 | Current News Headlines, Pre-Colonial Africa
The death toll in clashes this month between Ethiopia’s two largest ethnic groups, the Oromo and Amhara, in the northern Amhara region may be as high as 200, a senior official said on Sunday, up from previous reports of at least 50. Residents and officials in Oromia...