Obit: Pius Adesanmi, Scholar, Writer, Activist, dead in Ethiopian Airlines disaster – Tola Adenle

    Professor Adesanmi [Credit: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]   As Professor Pius Adesanmi, scholar, writer, activist is being mourned on multiple continents, especially in Nigerian – country of his birth – and Canada, his adopted homeland, those of us who knew him only through his many writings/contributions to political discourse in Nigeria do feel a […]

Human Smuggler Returns Money to Family of Missing Brazilian – Lise Alves/riotimesonline.com

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The family of one of the Brazilians missing since November 6th in the Bahamas while trying to enter into the United States illegally told federal police on Friday that the human smugglers, termed ‘coyote’, who was helping their son returned all of the money the family paid for the travel. “For […]

Obit: Cuba’s Fidel Castro, revolutionary, beloved by most at home, idolized by many around the world, dead at 90 – Tola Adenle

    Fidel, the young revolutionary [Google Images] Fidel Castro, who, despite his country’s huge and powerful neighbor under a hundred miles away, led Cuba through ten U.S. presidents and the crippling embargo that drove his tiny country into the waiting arms of cold-era Soviet Union, is dead. A wave of Cuban exiles, many of […]

Canada’s multi-cultural Policy & the Black/Caribbean Community – sharenews.com

By Tom Godfrey Many of us would not be here today and the face of Canada would be different if it was not for the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who introduced our multiculturalism policy almost 45 years ago today. Our official multiculturalism policy that changed the cultural makeup of this country was made into […]

“I want you and my dad to be … friends … I just want all of us to be friends …” 6-year old Canadian girl implores divorced parents – yahoonews.com/Jennifer O’Neill

Little Girl’s Plea to Divorced Parents Brings Mom to Tears By Jennifer O’Neill/Yahoo Parenting “Just try your best,” says the grade schooler. “For you and my dad, mom, I think you can do it. I think you can settle your mean heights down a little to short heights.”    READ THE HEART-TUGGING STORY: https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/little-girls-plea-to-divorced-parents-brings-mom-129576306387.html WEDNESDAY, […]

Audacious engineering feat escape tunnel spirited Mexican drug lord from behind bars – AP/ Associated Press By Christopher Sherman & E. Eduardo Castillo

https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-drug-lord-escape-tunnel-audacious-engineering-feat-083156731.html# WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2015. 4:03 p.m. [GMT]

A picture worth sharing: No mirage in this desert scene from HuffPost

It’s Not A Mirage: Tiny Oasis Town Of Huacachina Thrives In Middle Of Dry Desert Simon McCormack/Huffington Post For story and more – as in ‘other’ – beautiful and breath-taking images of this tiny Peruvian town: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/25/huacachina_n_6753972.html TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015. 10:50 a.m. [GMT]

The legacy of Brazil being the recipient of W/Hemisphere’s most enslaved Africans, shows in her socio-economic structure – Huffington Post

These Pictures Prove Brazil’s Legacy Of Slavery Is Not A Thing Of The Past The Huffington Post By Roque Plana In 1889, Brazil became the last country in the Americas to outlaw slavery. More enslaved Africans were sent to Brazil than any other country in the hemisphere. That legacy of racial slavery is readily apparent […]

BRAZIL: Female Brazilian murderers marry – and refuse to be separated – in jail – The Telegraph

Suzanne Von Richthofen was 18 when jailed in 2002 after arranging for her parents to be killed in their luxury home They were both behind murders which shocked Brazil, but Suzanne Von Richthofe has turned down parole to stay in Sao Paulo state prison with Regina Sanchez after the pair fell in love and married […]

A FACT WORTH SHARING: Men get breast cancer too – jamaicaobserver.com

The problem with male breast cancer is that because it is often not looked for, and there isn’t normally mammograms done on men, it most times presents itself as an invasive cancer rather than a pre-invasive cancer. READ THE STORY HERE: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines/allwoman/Men-get-breast-cancer-too_17671452 A blog visitor recently pointed out that the story could not be accessed. […]