By Steve Gorman A California court has slammed a 28 years jail term on former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight. The rap chief was sentenced in a Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday for manslaughter over the death of a man he ran over with his pickup truck outside a hamburger stand in 2015. The sentence appeared […]
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By Maruff Shaw Monica Gandhi and Cynthia Carey-Grant have been nominated as chairpersons for the 23rd International AIDS Conference scheduled to take place in the United States in July 2020. Gandhi is an HIV researcher at University of California in San Francisco while Carey-Grant is a long-time women’s health advocate based in Oakland. The two
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Intelligence personnel in Somalia have reportedly detained a radio journalist, Mohamed Abdiwali Tohow without charge on allegations of spreading “false news.” Tohow was arrested Wednesday September 26 over a report broadcast the previous day for the Mogadishu-based Radio Kulmiye. The station’s director, Burhan Dini Farah says on the morning of September 26, the journalist received a phone
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Police in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in Somalia, have been instructed to investigate the killing of Abdirisak Said Osman, a reporter and photographer with the privately owned radio station Codka Nabada. A statement from the Media Association of Puntland (MAP) and Codka Nabada say Abdirisak died on September 19 in the city of Galkayo while receiving
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Police in Uganda have reportedly detained at least eight journalists covering the return of opposition member of parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, from the United States. The journalists were arrested at Entebbe International Airport in Kampala and detained for about four hours, and their equipment confiscated by police officers. Media reports state
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By Muhammad Bah An Abuja magistrate’s court today struck out a case against Jones Abiri, publisher and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Weekly Source, saying the court does not have jurisdiction over the state where the alleged wrongdoing took place. Abiri, who was detained without charge for over two years until his release last month, was accused of criminal
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By Andy Piascik One hundred years ago, in the dead of a Massachusetts winter, the great 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike—commonly referred to as the “Bread and Roses” strike—began. Accounts differ as to whether a woman striker actually held a sign that read “We Want Bread and We Want Roses, Too.” No matter. It’s a wonderful
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By Ora Burke Black economic empowerment in the tradition of Marcus Garvey is a concept many in our global African communities talk about — but a Brooklyn-based pastor has gone further, recently launching it into practice. Reverend Dennis Dillon delivered a rousing revival sermon at his Rise Church in Brooklyn on Marcus Garvey’s birthday (August
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By Theophilus Sahr Gbenda Sierra Leone’s new Minister of Lands, Dr. Dennis Sandy is on the rampage in Sierra Leone as he reclaims, what he refers to as, “state land” in the Mothaim and Mongegba communities along the Regent-Grafton axis of Freetown. This move was first ignited by previous Minister of Lands Diana Finda Konomanyi
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Members of an opposition political party in Ghana have been accused of kidnapping and beating Jerry Azanduna, a journalist working for the Ghana News Agency (GNA).The group of attackers are linked to the Ghanaian opposition politician, Hassan Ayariga of the All Peoples Congress party. Jerry Azanduna says he received a phone call earlier that day
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