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After the US Treasury Department issued sanctions against three top-level North Korean government officials, North Korea warned that these actions will threaten any progress towards nuclear disarmament.

Ethiopia and Eritrea have declared peace after nearly 20 years of “no war, no peace” between the two countries, according to reports from the BBC. Previously, a peace treaty which was supposed to end hostilities between the nations after border conflicts from 1998-2000 was never actually implemented. As a result, the two countries have been […]

If given his druthers, Dennis Rodman will be the American peacekeeper who helps ease tensions between the United States and North Korea. The retired basketball great and global citizen wants President Donald Trump to OK Rodman’s transition into a peace envoy. While it is commonly understood that in business, education and politics, people strategize over […]

As millions of Puerto Rican Americans reeled, along with U.S. Virgin Islanders, from Hurricane Maria’s wrath and a busier-than-usual extreme hurricane season, President Donald Trump aka 45 did the Trumpian thing. Mantrums. This time, 45 blended a problematic in-person address in Huntsville, Alabama with dog whistling racial tweets about dissenting Black professional athletes. He also […]

The President-Elect is struggling to book acts for his inauguration as act after act refuses to take part in it. However, that doesn’t mean that they’ll all be sitting on their couches at home while he’s sworn in. It has been announced that Solange Knowles and Angela Davis will now be appearing at the Jan. […]

“Majority culture’s adoption of the word, stolen from African American vernacular, distorted it to the point of misuse and meaninglessness,” writes Robin Boylorn for the Guardian.

    Protests continued in Berkeley, Mo. following the fatal shooting of a black teen by a white police officer earlier this week. According to reports, the protests have been peaceful. 

Jasiri X speaking at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC as Congressman Elijah Cummings looks on (Photo by Andy Shallal)    On December 2nd, one day before we learned the New York police officer who murdered of Eric Garner would night be indicted, and one day after President Obama pledged $263 million dollars for body […]

    7-year-old Leah Flynn is using her talent to bring peace to Ferguson. The violinist has performed as a soloist at numerous concerts and venues. She hopes use her talent to calm the unrest happening in Ferguson, Missouri. 

  Over the weekend, thousands of activists, community leaders and concerned citizens gathered in protest of black men being gunned down by police in St. Louis. And according to a video submitted to us by protester Katina Parker, peaceful protesters where pepper-sprayed by police as they exercised their right as U.S. citizens. 

The following post is from Truthout. It was written by Raven Rakia. By: Raven Rakia From the very beginning, the movement in Ferguson, Missouri, has been youth-led and locally initiated. It was spurred after neighbors saw a young man dead in the streets for four hours after he had been gunned down by police officer Darren […]

  Prejudice looks something like this, seeing someone and without even knowing their name much less their character you judge them based off of what they look like. Humanity then is when they speak and you realize that you may have been wrong and you check yourself…lesson learned.