A new report from the U.S. Department of Education offers encouraging and new data on high school dropout and completion rates. Some of the data is broken down by racial and ethnic groups and shows remarkable improvements and achievements…
Winston Salem-1926, Thirteen men pledge their life savings to form Safe Bus which would become the largest African American owned bus company in the nation. At the time most white neighborhoods were serviced by street cars owned by Duke Power but black…
Two sisters, who were joined in the chest and abdomen, have been successfully separated in a surgery by a 78-member team in Nigeria's capital, Abuja. Mercy and Goodness Ede are now well enough to go home six weeks after surgery, according to…
In the age where there is a talk of African solutions for African problem a young woman has come up with a solution for hair extensions. Instead of Africans just being consumers in the hair care industry they are cracking the billion…
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Nigerian startup Rensource Energy has raised a $20 million Series A round co-led by CRE Venture Capital and the Omidyar network.
The renewable energy company builds and operates solar-powered micro-utilities that provide electricity to commercial community structures, such as open-air trading bazaars.…
As the winds
of change began to blow across the African continent it became evident that
freedom and independence were the way forward. The colonial powers wanted to
ensure that African countries that became independent would continue to
struggle so that others would not strive for…
The People's Republic (now Benin) was established on 30
November 1975. It effectively lasted until 1 March 1990, with the adoption of a
new constitution. After many years of economic and social decline, the people
of Benin became increasingly discontent with the political leaders. Agricultural
output…
In typical coon fashion, South Africa's coon Judge Yvonne Thokozile Mbatha has reduced the sentences of Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins Jackson. These farmers had been sentenced to 16 and 19 years respectively for attempted murder and other crimes. What…
The formation of the National Party of Afrikaner (Boer) in
1948 marked a devastating turn in the life of black South Africans. The government
began passing laws that led to segregation in education, political and social
life. The Boers viewed the majority black population as…