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Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com) -- Africa for the Africans is a black-owned Atlanta based tour company specializing in Africa tours and investments services. The African slave trade has completely divided

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former pro basketball star Dikembe Mutombo stressed the importance of an education as he was honored Monday with an award for improving lives in his native Congo. Mutombo said he

It's good being Diddy's son. Not only do you get one of the most lavish sixteenth birthday parties ever bestowed upon a teenage boy, you also get a car worth more than $350,000. See, everyone, the rec

While drama surrounding Tiger Woods' affair continues to be played out in the media, two sources close to Tiger Woods' wife are filling in the blanks about what triggered the Thanksgiving Day scandal.

Paris, France (CNN) -- French lawmakers could recommend Tuesday that the fiercely secular country ban the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women. French President Nicolas Sarkozy c

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed -- also known as Chemical Ali -- was executed Monday, an Iraqi government spokesman said. He was hanged after having been convict

(CNN) -- A schoolgirl in Saudi Arabia was sentenced to 90 lashes and two months in prison for assaulting her headmistress after a confrontation over a cell phone, sparking an outcry from a government-

Lasting 10 minutes, Friday's eclipse may prove the longest for a millenium Millions of people in Africa and Asia have viewed what is likely to prove the longest solar eclipse of the third

Israel's prime minister has reaffirmed his country's commitment to retaining parts of the occupied West Bank, undermining US efforts to restart talks aimed at eventually establishing a Palestinian sta

On Sunday January 17, 2010, Nigerians awoke to the startling news that killings have resumed in Jos between Christian and Muslim mobs. As usual with these riots no one quite knows what ignites them. O

Notes from an Angry Black Woman The strong black woman is dead.....on August 15, 1999 at 11:15 p.m. While struggling with the reality of being a human instead of a myth, the strong black woman pa

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The reverberations from Rev. Solomon Jackson's recent gift to Morris College, the largest in its 103-year history, are still bouncing around the Sumter, South Carolina campus. Explosions of joy, gr

-- Says Haitian capital looks like the aftermath of a “war” -- Celebrity Jimmy Jean-Louis’s trek from Los Angeles into the earthquake ravaged city of Port-au-Prince ended with tears of relief late

The New York Times asked voters in the Boston area their thoughts on the special election and who they were supporting. Excerpts of their answers, provided here, reflect the sense that the election wa