The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction runs several programs that emphasize racial issues. One of those programs – an Americorps operation called VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) – encourages white students to wear white wristbands that serve “as a reminder about your (white) privilege?” The program for high school students “seeks to build
No asylum for white family in US
A white South African family has lost their court bid for asylum in the US, the Sunday Times reports. The family, a couple with two children originally from Durban, claimed they were in danger in South Africa because another family member had been racist and his victims wanted revenge. “This is not about black versus
Young black man gets 22 years for raping 85-year old disabled woman
A man was sentenced to 22 years’ imprisonment by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday for rape, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Sibusiso Didis Nkosi, 26, was found guilty of raping an 85-year-old disabled women in her room at an old age home in Paulpietersburg shortly after midnight on March 12, 2011, Captain Thulani Zwane said. “He
Read more: Young black man gets 22 years for raping 85-year old disabled woman
Tony Blair, Ignoramus Supreme
Taking himself seriously… Every time I write about Tony Blair, I tell myself that it will be the last time. But then I find myself coming back, time and again, like a dog to its vomit. It isn’t because Blair is so interesting in himself. On the contrary, the more he appears in the media
China’s drone fleets
China is building one of the world’s largest drone fleets aimed at expanding its military reach in the Pacific and swarming U.S. Navy carriers in the unlikely event of a war, according to a new report. The Chinese military — known as the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) — envisions its drone swarms scouting out battlefields,
Obama shuns diversity
Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Marcia L. Fudge is escalating her campaign to urge President Barack Obama to pick African Americans for his cabinet, publicly releasing a letter that slams the first black president for a lack of diversity among his closest advisers. “The people you have chosen to appoint in this new term have hardly
Mandela’s memory ‘fading’
Nelson Mandela is doing well but has memory lapses, a close friend said on Monday. Mandela spent a night in hospital at the weekend for a medical checkup, AFP reported. The 94-year-old is aware of current political events, but he forgets at times that his fellow anti-apartheid activists are dead, said human rights lawyer George
Dutch stores to label products from Israeli settlements
The Netherlands has asked its retail chains to label Israeli products made in areas beyond the 1949 ceasefire line, including Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The Netherlands is the second European country, after the UK, to introduce this kind of labeling system. However, there will be no punitive measures for those retailers
Read more: Dutch stores to label products from Israeli settlements
Europeans must leave South Africa
For ages, the country today known as South Africa was no more than a loose band of separate communities. The Nguni tribes, which settled on the Southern tip of Africa around the 10th century, neither considered themselves a single nation, nor did they consider the Khoisan people already inhibiting the area part of their collective,
Bipartisan drone wars errupt
After years in the shadows, the administration’s secret drone program burst into very public view Wednesday with lawmakers grilling the attorney general over legal justification for targeted killings and Sen. Rand Paul launching an old-style one-man filibuster to demand answers from President Obama. The Kentucky Republican held the floor for hours, effectively blocking a vote
Solidarity hero shocks world with anti-gay words
Lech Walesa, the Polish democracy icon from Solidarity and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked outrage in Poland by saying that gays have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to “adjust to smaller things.” Some commentators are now suggesting that Walesa, the leading figure in Poland’s
Israel launches racially segregated buses
From Monday Palestinians travelling to day jobs into central Israel from the West Bank will be urged to board special buses at a checkpoint instead of the regular services used by Israelis. The scheme was drawn up by the Israeli transport ministry after residents in two Jewish settlements complained that Palestinians travellers on the Trans-Samaria
White people fear becoming U.S. minority
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan says white people are promoting birth control for black women because they fear becoming a minority in the United States. Farrakhan spoke Saturday at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, invited by the Grand Rapids Community College Black Student Union. He says white Americans will lose their majority by
Pan-African Youth Union praises Zim land reform
The president of the Pan-African Youth Union, Andile Lungisa, believes President Robert Mugabe’s land reform policy in Zimbabwe should serve as a blueprint for South Africa. Lungisa was among those who attended Mugabe’s $600000 birthday bash in the small mining town of Bindura. Lungisa wasthe former deputy president of the ANC Youth League. Taking to