Obama announces 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the National Basketball Association’s all-time leading scorer who helped lead the Los Angeles Lakers to five championships and the Milwaukee Bucks to another....
View ArticleWhat Fidel Castro meant to Africans
“The United States will come talk to us when it has a black president and the world has a Latin American pope,”Fidel Castro supposedly told the world in 1973, a joke or prophecy that predicted the rise...
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Meet the woman who wrote Michelle Obama’s DNC speech — Sarah Hurwitz
When Sarah Hurwitz sits down at her laptop, she puts on her noise-blocking headphones and imagines Michelle Obama’s exacting voice in her head. The voice might say: No, that transition is clumsy. Or:...
View ArticleHillary Clinton DNC acceptance speech
Excerpts from Hillary Clinton speech as she accepts the Democratic Party nomination for president. “America is once again at a moment of reckoning. Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart....
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The 6 Best Speeches from the DNC
By MxM The Democratic Party Convention came to a climax on Thursday night Hillary Rodham Clinton’s acceptance as the party’s nominee for president. Before that, Monday through Thursday saw many...
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Mugabe to US Reps: Be nice to me, my pal Trump might win White House
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears to have the endorsement of one of Africa’s most notorious despots, Zimbabwe’s longtime president Robert Mugabe. US lawmakers Chris Coons and Adam...
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Ahmad Khan Rahami, chief suspect in the NYC, N.J. bombings, taken into custody
Ahmad Khan Rahami, the primary suspect in three separate bombing incidents in New York City and New Jersey, was taken into custody in Linden, N.J., after a shootout with police. Linden Mayor Derek...
View ArticleObama: “I am the first American President to try Lipala dance in Nairobi.”...
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View ArticleMinnesota mall attacker identified as American born in Kenya
The man who stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall before being fatally shot has been identified as an American born in Kenya. CNN identified the suspect as Dahir A. Adan, 22, according to federal law...
View ArticleAn illicit bromance pitting Malik Obama and Donald Trump
In June this year, The New York Post carried a front page story about a man with a last name similar to America’s first African American president-Barack Obama. One would be forgiven to make a hasty...
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