Enough About Jesse Helms

Death has a way of sanitizing the most virulent and despicable aspects of prominent lives, especially those who trafficked in racial bigotry.
In the last several years, notorious racists such as former Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox and Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina left this Earth, and in efforts to show the humanity of both, tributes [...]

Africa Now Has A New “Apprentice” Show

Beyond Impressive

Not news- I just really liked this movie.

Color, Controversy and DNA

According to this man - the discoverer of DNA - it is quite apparent that blacks are not as well qualified as other races to succeed in much other than basketball. Henry Louis Gates Jr. over at The Root interviews him in this very frank and interesting discussion on race.

Hire an ex-con in Philly, get a tax break - does it work?

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) — One-time thief Heber Nixon Jr. has filled out his share of futile job applications. All said being a felon wouldn’t stand in his way, but the promised calls from managers never came.
He finally got a second chance when he showed up at a construction site looking for work and found a [...]

Rise Of The Latin Africans: A new black-power movement in Central and South America

Hugo Chávez is known as a revolutionary in many contexts, especially his defiance of the United States. In recent years, however, he’s also broken ground on a far less well-exposed subject: the question of race in Latin America. The saga began two years ago…

Obama Wants To Let Jamaica Off The Hook

Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, is promising 100 per cent debt relief for the Caribbean if he becomes the next leader of the United States.
That would translate for Jamaica into a $29 billion write-off in central government debt to the US, a small portion of the near $500 billion of foreign debt the island [...]

Nigeria, Oil, and Your Wallet

INTERNATIONAL oil companies have never considered Nigeria a most hospitable operating environment. Long burdened with eye-watering corruption and political instability, as well as two years or so of violent attacks from local militants demanding a bigger share of the country’s oil revenues, oil workers thought conditions could not get much worse for them.
But they have. [...]