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Zimbabwe’s Dr. Reggies Wenyika Selected to Lead Ottawa University

Chancellor Kevin Eichner of Ottawa University announced on June 15th that Dr. Reggies Wenyika has been hired as the new president of the residential campus in Ottawa, Kan. Wenyika will assume his official duties on July 16. “I cannot think of anyone more…

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Employment Statistics of Native Born v. Foreign Born Blacks in the US

The unemployment rate for foreign-born persons in the United States was 4.1 percent in 2017, down from 4.3 percent in 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The jobless rate of native-born persons was 4.4 percent in 2017, down from…

America Culture Featured by Editor April 29, 2018

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A Memorial to The African Americans Terrorized by Lynching

On April 26, 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) opened the National Memorial for Peace and Justice which is the United States' first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and…

Featured The Caribbean by Ana Mosioa-Tunya April 16, 2018

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The Commonwealth: Just Another Form of Colonialism

As the United Kingdom deals with the life out of the European Union (EU) known as Brexit they need new markets and the plan is to go back to old faithful Africans. The British Commonwealth was started as an extension of the…

Culture Featured by Editor April 9, 2018

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The Occult Power Behind Colonialism

There is an assumption among Africans that the reason that our continent was taken over was because our for bearers did not have superior weapons. It is certainly true because the British often expansively bragged “We have the maxim gun and they…

America Featured by Editor March 30, 2018

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10 Things To Know About Meghan Markle

The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is due to take place on 19 May, 2018 at Windsor Castle in England. The groom, Prince Harry, is a member of the British royal family. The bride, Meghan Markle, is a former American…

America Featured Society by Editor March 9, 2018

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America’s Structural Racism: Black-White Wealth Gap Persists

The already large racial wealth gap between white and black American households in America grew even wider after the Great Recession of 2007-2009. A new report from the Center for American Progress finds that the racial gap in wealth is widening. The…

America Featured by Editor March 2, 2018

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Feminists Got It Wrong: One-Parent Students Leave School Earlier

One of the leading early feminist voices once remarked, “The nuclear family must be destroyed… Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.” Linda Gordon Historian & leading feminist voice. However, a study by researchers at New York…

America Culture Featured Gamechangers Politics ReVision by Editor February 25, 2018

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Forgotten History: Black Heroes in Science

James McCune Smith James McCune Smith (1813-1865) was the first African American to obtain a medical degree, prominent abolitionist and suffragist, compassionate physician, prolific writer, and public intellectual has been relatively neglected by historians of medicine. A native of New York, Dr.…

Featured Society by Editor February 5, 2018

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Who owns the African Union?

The African Union (AU) is the successor of the Organization of African Union (OAU) which was founded on May 25, 1963 for the promotion of the Pan African agenda. The OAU successfully campaigned for and aided in the independence of Africans who…