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83-year-old William Henry Cosby Jr. was finally freed from prison after serving more than two years over sexual assault charges which was overruled by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The retired stand-up comedian, actor and author was sent to the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in September to three to ten years in jail on...
1867 in Richmond, a Baptist minister, Nathaniel Colver was looking for an empty land where he could build a school for training Black ministers. After long walks through the streets, he met amongst a group of Black people, a fair-faced freed woman who almost looked like a white woman, Mary Jane Lumpkin, who said she had a place that will serve as a school, according to the school history as written by Reverend Charles H. Corey. Mary Lumpkin was the widow of...
A 19-year-old black fisherman, Gary Duncan was wrongly accused of assaulting a white boy in Plaquemines Parish, New Orleans, LA, in 1966. Years back in October 1966, Duncan saw his cousin and nephew been rounded up by some group of...
400 years ago, during the slave trade where Africans were captured and taken to an unknown land far away from home to work on the plantations of their white slave masters, the enslaved men experienced a horrible sexual abuse in...
On Wednesday, the president of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi presented a diamond with a 1098-carat which is believed to be the third-largest diamond discovered in the world... According to the government of Botswana, the gem was discovered at the Jwaneng Mine,...
A 27-year-old Zimbabwean, Mark Muradzira who is a youth leader of Risen Saints Church, Bindura in the central Zimbabwe almost died after fasting for 33 days and 33 nights in the mountain. Muradzira whose absence was noticed by his friends...
South African born, Siyabulela Xuza was born in Mthatha, the capital of Transkei, in 1989. Xuza who was obsessed with chemicals once reportedly blew up their kitchen in Eastern Cape when he was twelve years old — an occurrence that...
Umaru Dikko, who was the Minister of Transport under the regime of Shehu Shagari (1979–1983) when his administration was overthrown by the military and Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari installed as the head of state. Nigeria Cargo Airplane Awaiting -...
According to reports, lawyers representing the Innocence Project and ACLU had demanded for a fresh DNA tests on the bloody shirt that was presented as an evidence four years ago. The state of Arkansas charged a black American man,...
11-Year-Old Nigerian New Yorker, Tanitoluwa Adewumi Becomes a United States National Chess Master Having being discovered a few years ago as just a 'homeless' genius in chess, young Tanitoluwa Adewumi's journey to limelight began - gaining both national international recognition...
