May 2013
May 1st, 2013
Written by Todd Pitman - A... in Feature Stories, Latest News with 1 Comment
Sectarian Violence Explodes Against Muslims In Myanmar
OKKAN, Myanmar (AP) — They slept terrified in the fields, watching their homes burn through the night. And when they returned on Wednesday, nothing was left but smoldering ash and debris.
One day after hundreds of Buddhists armed with bricks stormed a clutch of Muslim villages in the closest explosion of sectarian violence yet to Myanmar's...
May 1st, 2013
Written by Nicole Winfield... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
ROME (AP) - Cecile Kyenge's appointment as Italy's first black Cabinet minister has exposed the nation's ugly race problem, a blight that flares regularly on the soccer pitch with racist taunts and in the diatribes of xenophobic politicians - but has now raised its head at the center of political life. The appointment was hailed as a giant step forward for racial integration in a country that...
May 1st, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Eyes On The Enterprise with 1 Comment
Alvin Turner met Chad Tall late last month in pursuit of a cause that now spans the course of both their lifetimes.
Turner was there back in 1968, when Martin Luther King traveled to Memphis to demonstrate in support of striking sanitation workers like him merely seeking a livable wage. This time, the 78-year-old rebel took his defiant stance in New York’s Time Square, side-by-side, the 20-year-...