Ever since Joe Biden became President, there has been an uptick in regime change related activity in black majority countries around the world in the Caribbean and in Africa. Unlike the French, they do not use their military. Instead they are using…
A new study by Christopher Berry, the William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, finds that low-income families face far higher property tax rates than high-income families. The reason is differences in assessment rates between low-income and high-income…
Last Sunday, Meghan Markle and her husband Harry agreed to sit down for an interview with Oprah. During the interview, Meghan alleged that the Royal family and its staff had been racist and hostile towards her when she married into their family.…
The Center for Social Solutions at the University of Michigan is leading a group of college and university scholars in an effort to examine possible avenues to provide reparations for African Americans and Indigenous people. Reparations refers to compensation, which may include…
In 1898, a group of white vigilantes—angry and fearful at the newly elected local government made up of duly elected black politicians—joined forces with area militias to rain terror on Wilmington, North Carolina, then the South’s most progressive Black-majority city. The Wilmington,…
Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadéra has been reelected in the first round of the presidential vote held on December 27. He secured more than 53% of votes in the first round, according to provisional results announced by the electoral commission…
Recent revelations show that a growing group of institutions (Colleges and Universities) not only benefited from the labor of enslaved people, but their founders were themselves enslavers. Many Colleges and Universities including Ivy League institutions used slave labor to build campuses, depended…
Recently, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 American winners of Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at Oxford University in England. Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England and may allow…
The largest mall in Cameroon recently opened in Douala. The Douala Grand Mall which looks like a museum and an airport, is home to 160 shops, supermarkets, amusement parks and cinemas. They expect about 300,000 visitors every month and to create about…
Uganda's KIIRA Motors has manufactured its first two electric buses. The new Kayoola EVS is a 12-meter low-entry city bus with capacity for 90 passengers (49 seated, 41 standing). The electric motor delivers up to 245 kW. Uganda's KIIRA motors is…