It is a fitting message for the day—the reality is viral hepatitis does, in fact, affect everyone, everywhere. Consider, for instance, that three percent of the world’s population is infected with the hepatitis C virus, a leading cause of liver disease. That’s 130 to 170 million people chr... Read more...
View Larger Map Look at the world map taken from Google maps above. Looks familiar, right? Look at that huge land to North America's upper right. That's Greenland. Look at Africa; it seems like Africa is about the size of Greenland. Now consider this fact: Africa is 14 times larger th... Read more...
DOWNLOAD TRACK: http://bit.ly/o96urw On Tuesday, the Bob Marley estate, Simon Fuller, and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell globally released a new video for Bob Marley & The Wailers' 1973 song "High Tide Or Low Tide." The video documents the East Africa Crisis that is affecting more th... Read more...
Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out US universities are reportedly using endowment funds to make deals that may force thousands from their land in Africa. Photograph: Boston Globe via Getty Images Harvard and ot... Read more...
What’s going on in the headlines today? Well, in Philadelphia children under eighteen have a curfew because of flash riots. The mortgage crisis in United States is still a major problem but financial institutions are fine. There are 13.9 million unemployed U.S. citizens today. London is burning ... Read more...
NATIONAL DEBTS [col. writ. 7/30/11], (c) Mumia Abu-Jamal Amidst the political brinksmanshlp occasioned by the rising of the national debt ceiling, a question arises. What is the nation's debt? Of the 14.3 trillion cited in published accounts, over a quarter of that amount, or $4.4 tril... Read more...
Three young Americans traveled to Africa in search of such as story. What they found was a tragedy that disgusted and inspired them. A story where children are weapons and children are the victims. The "Invisible Children: rough cut" film exposes the effects of a 20 year-long war on the children... Read more...
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 2 August 1997), or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick. Expensive Shit is the twelfth full-length album by Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. It is considere... Read more...
Seun Kuti - Rise (Swizz Beatz Remix) Seun rips today’s commercial hip-hop artists a new one, talks about polygamy and monogamy (“one wife too many”), his dream collabo, and how he’ll keep the afrobeat flame alive forever. (As Seun and Fela’s fans like to quote, the elder Kuti’... Read more...