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Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19 were gunned down last night near the campus of UNC Chapel Hill. Sources told local news that the family had been shot execution style. The alleged shooter is Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, a white, self-identified atheist. Deah Barakat […]

Writer Malik Nashad Sharpe believes that it’s possible to mourn those lost in the Charlie Hebdo attack and stand with those that have been harmed by racist and Islamophobic sentiments in France.

  Dozens of people were killed Monday when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive at a northern Nigeria school. The bomber was disguised in a school uniform. 

  Terrorist group Boko Haram laughed off Nigeria’s announcement of a ceasefire agreement, saying that no such deal was ever in play. The group announced that more than 200 schoolgirls that were abducted in April have been converted to Islam and married off. 

  According the Nigerian government, more than 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram in April are set to be released back into the hands of their parents as early as Monday. The release comes after the signing of a ceasefire agreement with the terrorist group. 

The following piece is from For Harriet. It was written by Ogechi Emechebe By: Ogechi Emechebe Today marks six months since over 250 girls in Nigeria were kidnapped. On the night of April 14th, 2014, hundreds of schoolgirls in the Chibok boarding school in northern Nigeria awoke to the sounds of gunfire. Within minutes, they […]

  This post comes from Huffington Post. It was written by Charlotte Alfred. By: Charlotte Alfred On the night of April 14, 2014, hundreds of schoolgirls at the Chibok boarding school in northeastern Nigeria awoke to the sound of gunfire. They saw men in camouflage approaching and thought soldiers were coming to save them from […]

My friend and I are both teachers. Last year, during a cold fall month with no snow on the ground, we were driving around the south side of Chicago looking for notable graffiti. My friend was teaching a unit on hip-hop, and since graffiti is a key component of the genre, he wanted to find […]

Boko Haram militants kidnapped the wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister and killed at least three people on Sunday in a cross-border attack involving more than 200 assailants in the northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon. A local religious leader, Seini Boukar Lamine, who is also the town’s mayor, and five members of his family were […]

The following post originally appeared on the New York Times under the title, “Those Girls Haven’t Been Brought Back.” It was written by Nicholas Kristof. By: Nicholas Kristof IT has been almost three months since Islamic militants in northern Nigeria attacked a school that was giving exams and kidnapped more than 250 girls — some of the brightest […]

More than 60 Nigerian girls and women who were kidnapped by Islamic extremists two weeks ago have managed to escape.

This post originally appeared on The Daily Mail under the title of “Kidnapped by Islamist militants two months ago…the haunting faces of Nigerian schoolgirls hostages the world has forgotten.” It was written by Gordon Brown, United Nation Special Envoy for Global Education.  By: Gordon Brown These are the names and faces of some of the more […]