For the first time, Pope Francis will visit Africa to further his conquest in addressing poverty and worldwide inequality.
A vaccine for the highly contagious and deadly Ebola virus has proved to be 100 percent effective, the World Health Organization announced Friday. Tests show…
Al-Shabab terrorists reportedly killed at least 147 people Thursday at a university in Kenya in what is being called the worst attack on Kenyan soil…
Former president Jimmy Carter‘s grandson, Georgia state senator Jason Carter, is running for governor of the state, and he says we shouldn’t sleep on Nov.…
First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a rare radio address to the nation where she highlighted the Mother’s Day weekend to speak out strongly against the…
Apartheid ended in 1994 but Cape Town, South Africa is still segregated. Many beaches in the ‘Mother City’ remain predominately white and it’s the only…
Preacher Yoshanis Asrat’s frenzied homily pulsed over the tin shacks and mud homes of the Megenanga neighborhood in Addis Ababa. If you followed his voice and the blaring synthesized piano that accompanied it, you would arrive at his congregation, the Mascara Church—little more than a tent in a muddy backyard in Ethiopia’s capital. But in […]
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — A South African ballet dancer from a poor township outside Cape Town has been given the chance to train in the United States — all because of a documentary film, and an email from a caring viewer. “Ghetto Ballet” is a documentary that chronicles the lives of four young ballet dancers […]
Former Miss Universe Tanzania, Flaviana Matata, was the guest of honor at a reception on Tuesday, May 25th, hosted by Russell Simmons and the Diamond Empowerment Fund in New York City.
Can you rel8 to this? “It’s the most basic element on the planet. It gives life to everything and it’s seemingly plentiful. But more than a billion people can’t get clean water for cooking, cleaning and bathing. 2.6 billion people don’t have access to adequate sanitation and 2 million children die every year from diseases […]
With violence in Darfur in an extended lull, a new study assessing dozens of mortality estimates for the six years of fighting there has concluded that about 300,000 people died, but that disease, rather than violence, killed at least 80 percent of them.
