63rd Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals

Akon Signs Deal To Build “ Akon City”

Set featured image Congratulations  to rapper Akon who signed a deal with Senegal to officially start building his own city…
01.13.20

NEWS ROUNDUP: Standing Rock Protesters Will Stay Despite…

The Army Corps issued a letter demanding that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe vacate the land so that they can…
11.28.16

NEWS ROUNDUP: Comedian Bill Cosby Is ‘Completely Blind,’…

The disgraced comedian, who fell from grace after getting caught up in a sex scandal, has been battling a deteriorating…
07.20.16

Back To The Motherland: Michelle Obama And Daughters…

The First Family will be promoting their Let Girls Learn Initiative with actresses Meryl Streep and Freida Pinto.
02.02.21

Former Orphans Who Remained Friends Through The Years…

The families of the two boys, now teenagers attending high school in Gilbert, Arizona, say they believe it was a…
04.21.16

Boko Haram Using More Children As “Suicide Bombers”

One in every five "suicide bombers" used by Boko Haram in the past two years has been a child, underscoring…
04.12.16

Nigerian Baby Abandoned Over Witchcraft Claims Makes Astonishing…

Baby Hope was helped by Danish aid Anja Ringgren Lovén in January after his family abandoned him over accusations of…
07.03.19

Zimbabwe’s President Feted With Lavish Birthday Party In…

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has come under fire for hosting a lavish $1 million celebration for his 92nd birthday in…
03.04.16

58 Killed In Nigeria Suicide Bomb Attack

Two female suicide bombers between the ages of 17 and 20 reportedly blew themselves up this week in a camp…
02.11.16

Sex Workers Flock To Sub-Saharan Africa Following Crackdowns…

In what one researcher calls the "new El Dorado for the prostitution business," there are now between 13,500 and 18,500…
02.02.21

Little Known Black History Fact: Aliko Dangote

Aliko Dangote isn’t a  name known to many in the U.S., but in Africa Dangote is well known as  the…
02.04.16

Boko Haram Burned Children Alive In Latest Attack,…

Houses were torched, suicide bombers detonated devices, and militants opened fire near Nigeria's largest northeastern city.
02.01.16

Thandie Newton Slams Starbucks Over Black Child Display…

Actress Thandie Newton called out the coffee chain for displaying a statue of a Black child in a loin cloth…
01.08.16

White Woman Slammed For Wearing Blackface To Draw…

Hungarian journalist Boglarka Balogh is receiving unwanted attention on social media after wearing blackface to make people aware of the…
01.07.16