"Tookie's Ashes Are South Africa Bound"

Skin-Deep Discrimination
We all know about racism, about whites discriminating against blacks. The prevelance of “colorism”—black on black discrimination, is less known, but it’s an open secret in the black community.

The Bitter-Sweet Taste of WTO Sugar Deals
The injustices of Northern sugar subsidies - and the way their reform could damage some developing countries - have been a key focus at Hong Kong. But, John Kamau reports, national policies aimed at helping farmers to cope also have a bearing on the future of the sugar industry.

Tookie's Ashes Are South Africa Bound
Arrangements are currently being made for the remains of recently executed Crips founder Stanley "Tookie" Willams. A large public funeral has been planned for early next week in Los Angeles, then Williams' ashes will be scattered in South Africa, as he had previously requested.

U.N. Bans Ivory Coast Rough Diamond Exports
The United Nations Security Council accepted France's proposal to ban diamond exports from the Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire.) The council voted unanimously to ban diamond exports after it was revealed diamonds have been used to buy weapons.

The African Skulls in the Americas
For decades it has been believed that the first peoples to populate North and South America crossed over from Siberia by way of the Bering Strait on a land-ice bridge. However, a new study examining the largest collection of South American skulls ever assembled suggests that a different population may have crossed the bridge to the New World 3,000 years before those Siberians.