culture
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Sudanese Woman’s Death Sentence for Christian Conversion Struck Down
Updated June 24, 2014, 11:58 a.m. EDT: Meriam Ibrahim has been detained at the international airport in Khartoum, Sudan—the country’s capital—while she, her husband and two children were attempting to leave the country, according to her lawyer, Mohaned Mustafa El-Nour, the Daily News reports. “They knew she had been cleared by the court, but they have rearrested her,”…
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New Kidnappings in Nigeria; Boko Haram Is Main Suspect
Although Nigeria has wrapped up the investigation concerning the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok, who are still missing, the militant group reportedly behind it all, Boko Haram, is showing little signs of slowing its reign of terror. According to the New York Times, the Islamic radicals are now under suspicion for new…
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2 Dead, Some 8 Injured in Miami Shooting
Gunfire erupted at a Miami apartment building early Tuesday, leaving two dead and at least eight injured, the Miami Herald reports. According to the report, the shooting occurred in a low-income neighborhood, Liberty City, around 2:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, outside the building. There was one reported casualty at the scene, with another individual succumbing to…
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Spike Lee: New Kickstarter Film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Is Not a Vampire Movie
Spike Lee did not take Kickstarter funds to make a vampire film. “It is not a vampire film!” Lee jokingly corrected an audience member during a Q&A Sunday at New York’s SVA Theater, the Daily News reports. Lee wanted to make clear to those in attendance at the closing-night event at the 18th annual American Black…
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President Obama Plays Defender for England’s World Cup Team?
President Barack Obama is a huge sports fan and a pretty good basketball player—but he does not play defender for England’s national soccer team. That is the mistake one souvenir company recently made when it put the president’s face on a commemorative mug where England player Chris Smalling’s face should have appeared, the New York…
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Activists Head to Mississippi to Commemorate Freedom Summer
Civil rights activists, youth organizers and religious leaders from around the country will travel south this week to participate in the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference. Dubbed Freedom 50, the commemoration (June 25-29) will remember the civil rights history made in Mississippi during the 1964 Freedom Summer and will create the largest convening of…
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Venus Williams Strips Down for ESPN the Magazine’s Body Issue
Venus Williams leaves very little to the imagination in ESPN the Magazine’s sixth annual Body Issue, hitting newsstands July 11. Williams didn’t quite know what she was getting into when she agreed to pose for the issue. “It didn’t dawn on me until right when I walked on set that I would have to be…
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The Obamas: We Want Our Daughters to Experience Minimum Wage
Malia Obama may have interned as a production assistant, but her parents want her and younger sister Sasha to experience minimum wage work in the future. In an interview with Parade magazine, Michelle Obama told the magazine, “I think every kid needs to get a taste of what it’s like to do that real hard…
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Nigeria Concludes Kidnap Investigation; More Than 200 Schoolgirls Still Missing
Nigeria closed its investigation of the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls on Friday, with little progress made in recovering the girls, who were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants from their secondary school in northeast Borno state during exams April 14, according to Reuters. Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Sabo submitted the final report, which noted that the…
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FIFA Investigating German Team’s Fans for Wearing Blackface During World Cup Game With Ghana
FIFA has started a probe into the matter of two men wearing blackface during Saturday’s World Cup Group G game between Germany and Ghana at the stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil, the Daily Mail reports. According to the report, images spread across social media showing the two men, who were wearing identical outfits, with curly Afros…