Then: Slaves on plantation in New Jersey Now: Girl trafficked from West Africa and enslaved in New Jersey From CNN: They arrived in the United States from West Africa, young girls held against their will and forced to work for hours on end. But this time, it didn’t happen hundreds of years ago. Nicole’s journey [...]
From New America Media: RIO DE JANEIRO—Celebration of Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day began early, just after dawn. Afro-Brazilian community and religious leaders climbed the pyramid at the base of the statue of Zumbi dos Palmares, the country’s most important black hero, and ceremoniously began to wash the bust. Brazil is South America’s largest country and [...]
There are no fewer than 251,287 cables from more than 250 US embassies around the world, obtained by Wikileaks. We present a day-by-day guide to the revelations from the US embassy cables both from the Guardian and its international media partners in the story. The release of more than 250,000 US embassy cables reveals previously [...]
RENWL Note: The absence of corporate sponsorship is refreshing. It actually looks like a gay pride celebration. Who knew? From The Times Of India: Love bums, not bombs”. On Sunday Connaught Place was awash in rainbow colours as members of LGBT (lesbian gay bisexual transgender) community and their supporters came out in large numbers for [...]
From MSNBC: Passengers on a red-eye woke up to an announcement more interesting than the typical “fasten your seatbelts” as they approached New York early Thursday: Two men had gotten married on board overnight when the captain briefly flew over Canada, where gay marriage is legal. “The head flight attendant made the annoucement on the [...]
How this has yet to make the rounds on American LGBT blogs is a mystery to us. But on Wednesday an Australian newspaper reported on Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton’s recent visit down under when she spoke to Melbourne University students. Clinton was asked during the event if she supported gay marriage. She responded with [...]
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an ice cream maker from running an ad featuring two clearly turned on young priests about to lock lips. To add salt to the shockery one priest is of African descent and the other one is white. The ad apparently is running in this month’s Look Magazine. [...]
