This July, 15-year-old Kimberly Anyadike finished a record-breaking flight across the country, becoming what is believed to be the youngest African-American female to pilot an airplane from coast to coast. The adventurous teenager flew from Compton Woodley Airport in Compton, CA, to Newport News, VA ,and back, making thirteen stops along the way. Her flight ...

There was a Haitian man on the Titanic There was a Haitian man on the ship! His uncle was President of Haiti! Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche was the only black man, a Haitian man, to perish in the Titanic; that's after he saved his wife and kids. Laroche was born in Cap Haitian, Haiti , on May 26, ...

Western media depiction of African affairs -- Part 1 Vincent Magombe Ebere Nzewuji Ben TV Vuyiswa Ngqobongwana.

MAERSK-ALABAMA CAPTAIN RESCUED BY REAR ADM. MICHELLE HOWARD'S SHIP Whoa! Nope, this is one you SURE DIDN'T HEAR on the news. The ship that rescued the Maersk-Alabama's captain was skippered by a BLACK FEMALE REAR ADMIRAL? Get OUT of here! If you're like me, you briefly saw her in some news clips, and (like me) probably figured she ...

Jacob Zuma is one step away from the Union Buildings - South Africa's seat of power. Wednesday's national and provincial elections are certain to see the African National Congress (ANC) leader become the new president of South Africa. But this year's elections have been different. A new opposition party, hewn from the ruling African National Congress, is challenging ...

Trinidad Carnival 2009 Featuring Desperadoes the Finest steel Orchestra in the World Review by Mighty Jamma The first time I saw Despers, I was with my brother Norman in 1981. They were performing at the Birmingham Odeon, (as part of their UK tour). The whole audience was transfixed, we were amazed with the standard and sound of ...

Well It's been in the news all week, So what do we think? At the end of March the BBC reported: Pop star Madonna is to travel to Malawi in a bid to adopt a baby girl called Mercy James, officials have said. The Reuters news agency was told that the child has "no father and ...

Keeping my eyes open after a short time doing other things last week, hey, a boy has a life you know! I noticed this fantastic set of magazine scans from the 1950s. Whilst the magazines reflect the times,  I simply revelled in the photography and typographic layout, something many modern magazines seem to have forgotten about ...

As Lionel Ritchie prepares to return to Wales as part of his latest UK tour, he talks to Gavin Allen about his career renaissance, his love life and the death of black music FOR a man synonymous with romantic ballads, Lionel Ritchie hasn’t been particularly lucky in love. Ritchie started his career writing up-tempo club tunes with ...

MediaTakeOut,com just learned that police in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. are concerned that there may be a serial killer who is targeting Black mothers and their teenage daughters. And the killer appears to be preying on women in Prince Georges County, Maryland - the county with the highest concentration of affluent African Americans in ...

Blogger John Ridley points out that whilst the President of the worldsmost powerful country enjoys cosy nights on comfy chatshows, and other African American high flyers like Eric Holder, Michael Steele and Richard Parsons are making headlines the situation is considerably worse for the average African American male. My response to this is, "Yeah, tell us something ...

UNCERTAINTY hangs over the future of Antigua and Barbuda's second-term government of Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer last week with the filing of four election petitions Thursday (March 19) by the opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) in the High Court. RICKEY SINGH The challenging of the declared results involve three of the nine seats won by the incumbent ...

MANAGUA, Mar 20 (IPS) - The first criminal prosecution for racial discrimination in Nicaragua, in response to a complaint brought by a woman lawmaker in the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), has focused attention on the segregationist treatment of indigenous and Afro-Caribbean women in the Caribbean coastal regions. Indigenous and black women make up 52 percent of ...

The Captain Morgan's rum distillery planned for St. Croix will release no molasses or other effluent into the sea, instead converting it to organic solids suitable for soil enrichment, Diageo officials told the V.I. Coastal Zone Management committee Wednesday. At the committee's public hearing on the Diageo CZM permit in the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport ...

CASH was stolen from a till when three men wearing hooded tops raided a Derby shop. The shop assistant at the Afro-Caribbean food and fish store, in Upper Dale Road, was pushed out of the way by one of the thieves while another snatched money from the till and the third stood by and watched. Police are ...

Sickle Cell and Deaths in Custodyconference The Unit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell (TASC Unit) at De Montfort University, Leicester is pleased to present this exclusive one day conference. The conference examines Sickle Cell disorders, healthcare neglect in prisons, racism in the criminal justice system and the introduction of specialist custody nursing Sickle Cell and deaths in custody ...

Senegal/Rwanda: Star Targets Afro-Basket Title AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA 2005 FIBA Africa Championship (Afrobasket) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Boniface Ndong is eager to guide Senegal to their first continental championship ... See all stories on this topic Senegal's Téranga Lions play Oman, Iran in soccer friendlies Le Mali en ligne - Mali Dakar, Senegal - Senegal will play two soccer friendly ...

Senior ANC Official Vows Jacob Zuma will Quit if Convicted of ... Voice of America - USA By Darren Taylor South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC) says it's confident it will win more than 70 percent of the vote when the ... See all stories on this topic South Africa considers steps to help Zimbabwe Reuters South ...

Known for carrying 492 passengers from Jamaica to Britain is a centrepiece of this year’s black history season.