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Miriam Sapiro As African leaders converged on Washington earlier this week for the first U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, it has been refreshing to see strong bipartisan support in the Congress for something. Renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has generated significant support on

Your National News Day 11 August 2014 Worchester/Salem, NH The food chain store Market Basket are not filling any baskets! That's because many of the distribution staff have left their jobs.

Sometimes in the course of changing a diaper, stuff happens. It’s just how it goes when changing a baby boy’s diaper — eventually, no matter how hard you try to stop it, you just might be peed on.

Robin Williams, an Academy Award-winning actor and comedian who imbued his performances with wild inventiveness and a kind of manic energy, died on Monday at his home in Marin County, Calif. He was 63

YOUR NATIONAL NEWS DAY 10 AUGUST 2014 Thriller Coaster Ride lasted five hours. . .Sunday, August 10, 2014 Twenty-four people were glad to end a thrill ride as they waited a little over five

YOUR WORLD NEWS DAY 11 AUGUST 2014 Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti A prison attack to free the son of a businessman aided the escape of 329 Haitian prisoners. News sources stated that the prisoners

Xernona Clayton, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Trumpet Awards and Psychedelic Soul and R&B singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe will be among honorees at The Lincoln University’s 3rd Annual Lion

THE BIZARRE SLAYINGS OF LIFE YOUR WORLD NEWS MAY 2014 THE SWORD AND THE SON Your National/World News MAY 2014 DAY 1 Decatur, GA There's nothing very comforting in slay

A LITTLE SOUTHERN NEWS August 2014 Issue 87 Event news from Memphis with light humor HIGHLIGHTS: August is the month when all the good music is in and around Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis shows

During a recent TV appearance on Fox’s new daytime show, “The Daily Help Line,” actress Tisha Campbell-Martin disclosed a childhood trauma that she had never spoken about publicly before confessing sh

Chances are you didn't wake up this morning and think: Yes, today is the day I'm going to meet a married man—and I'm going to want to be with him. I'm even going to want him divorced so that we can be

Black fathers often get a bad wrap. Despite popular belief, there are many men out there who take pride in the institution of fatherhood. There may be limited positive depictions of them on TV, but wi

Hair is big business in Africa, and global brands are definitely starting to take notice. Despite limited financial resources, Reuters reports that Africans are spending an estimated $7 billion on th

A female news anchor in Saudi Arabia did the “unthinkable” when she appeared on national television without wearing her hijab, a move that caused an uproar in the Islamic state. Video of the unnamed

YOUR WORLD NEWS DAY 7 August 2014 London and the UK The lights went out as London participated in its Lights Out project remembering the time, and soldiers of WWI. I