Dr. Ladson-Billings Earns 2020 NNPA Leadership in Education Award
September 17, 2020
“We have COVID, we have anti-Black, we have the very tenuous economy and we have the climate catastrophe,” said Dr. Ladson-Billings.
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migration
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later the Diaspora Still Suffers
January 10, 2019
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the transatlantic slave trade. This is Part 9 in the series.
(Read the entire series: Slavery Part 1, Slavery Part 2, Slavery Part 3, Slavery Part 4, Slavery Part 5, Slavery Part 6, Slavery Part 7, Part 8)
After 31-Mile Trek In Tunnel, Sudanese Man Granted Asylum In The Uk
January 6, 2016
As the U.S. marks “National Migration Week” from Jan 3 to Jan 9, another record for migration endurance was set this week with the walk to freedom by Abdul Rahman Haroun of Sudan. Haroun, 40, was reported to have walked almost the entire length of the 31-mile Channel tunnel from France to the UK where trains travel up to 99 mph along the line. Initially arrested at the English end of the tunnel in August and charged with obstructing a railway, he was due to face trial this month. At a brief hearing at Canterbury crown court, the prosecutor Philip