Featured Blog Posts – February 2016 Archive (115)

(Left) Activist Deric Muhammad and mother Dazie Williams protest violent sneaker culture (Right) Michael Jordan, star basketball player (Photo by Isaac Brekken, Getty Images)

Dazie Williams’s 22-year-old son had just picked up three pairs of the hotly anticipated Air…

• Medics have advised women in Brazil to wear a burka in order to stop the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus
• The advice was unsurprisingly ignored by tens of thousands of people participating the…

In a new video purportedly released by the Islamic State, an ISIS boy soldier of African descent beheads an official with Jabhat al-Shamiya, or the Levant Front, for failing to implement sharia law. According to international terrorism watchdog group Terror Monitor, the victim is an alleged “religious jurist” named Muhammad Tabsho.

Terror Monitor further reports that the boy executioner…

Two friends who were born as girls in Jamaica but have lived as men since moving to the UK have revealed how difficult it was to return to their birthplace and tell their families they are transgender.

Steffan Zachiyah and…

Maurice White, founder and co-vocalist of Earth, Wind & Fire has died aged 74.

His brother confirmed the musician died in his sleep in Los Angeles on Thursday morning after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. 

The band is known for hits such as Shining Star,…

• Puzzle involves figuring out which direction a bus is travelling in
• 80 per cent of under 10s solved instantly in National Geographic test
• But brain teaser is said to be more difficult for adults …

• Passengers on a train stuck at Grand Central Terminal in New York on Monday heard the message
• A 16-year-old student from Fordham Prep had been struck by a train near his school in the Bronx
• Sophomore Owen Kelly, who also attended the $19,000-a-year Jesuit…

• Mia DeJesus, 16, was beaten up in her school's bathroom by four girls 
• She was beaten until she lost consciousness at Northeast High School  
• The bullies recorded the incident as they kicked, hit and taunted…

• 6ft by 3ft hole tore into side of Djibouti-bound Daallo Airlines flight D3159 
• Computer programmer revealed blast ripped into the Airbus A321 fuselage
• Hassan Mohamed Nur said passengers screamed as smoke filled the jet …

Throughout the late 19th century, and well into the 1950's, Africans and in some cases Native Americans, were kept as exhibits in zoos. Far from a relic from an unenlightened past, remnants of such exhibits have continued in Europe as late as the 2000's.

Throughout the early 20th century, Germany held what was termed a, "Peoples Show," or Völkerschau. Africans were brought in as carnival or zoo exhibits for…

As we approach Black History Month and New York Fashion Week, Afro-Colombian fashion designer, Edwing D’Angelo, want to see more contributions from the Afro-Latino Diaspora through fashion.

D’Angelo’s past presentations have always reflected the cultural advancements that Afro-Latinos have ushered into the United States and the world in the areas of the arts, film, dance and music. Living the experience of an…

Photos of Dancehall Deejay ‘Insidius‘ circulated on social media websites over the weekend.

In the photos, the self proclaimed ‘Bad & Devious‘ artiste is seen on a beach with some very freaky females in various positions giving him a blow job, he is known for songs like ‘Likkle Likkle‘ and ‘Trend‘ The photos of the Deejay and the lesbians were leaked online by one of the females on the beach but later…

Prime Minister and People’s National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller last night ended months of speculation and put the electorate in full election mode with her announcement in Half-Way-Tree square that the country’s 17th general election is to be held on February 25.…