"Young Black men are victims of 'statistical racism'"

Young Black men are victims of 'statistical racism'
Black boys are victims of statistical racism says a leading criminologist who believes that yearly crime figures only reinforce the negative stereotype of young black men as ‘a problem’ to society. Through extensive research Marianne Fitzgerald, a Professor of Criminality at the University of Kent has found that street crime is unrelated to ethnicity but has everything to do with poverty and social circumstances.

The de Young Museum's Hatshepsut exhibit is misleading
A major exhibit, "Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh," was on display at the newly renovated de Young Museum in San Francisco from Oct. 15, 2005, to Feb. 5, 2006. This important exhibit housed over 300 artifacts, owned by more than a dozen museums, that were created during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut (1500 BCE), who ruled Egypt during the 18th dynasty. Hatshepsut was the fourth of five women who ruled Egypt during the dynastic period, and records indicate that she may have been the most powerful of these African women.

Museveni’s win faces challenges
In spite of opposition challenge led by his former doctor, Yoweri Museveni won a first of an unlimited tenure since the Constitution was changed to remove restriction on presidents to two-five year terms.

Religious violence toll at 127
Sectarian violence spread to three more Nigerian cities on Friday, claiming seven lives and raising the death toll in days of killings to 127.

Crisis in Niger Delta Poses Intractable Problem
The Nigerian press is reporting that attacks by militant Ijaw tribe youth on Shell oil facilities is threatening the long-term prospects for stability and commerce in the Niger Delta, sharply curtailing oil production and pushing up crude oil prices on the world market.

Canada shares blame for Haiti’s mess
In an important foreign policy test, the new Conservative government must come to terms with the shameful legacy of Canada’s role in Haiti over the past five years. This week’s Haitian election, with its suspiciously delayed count, its crushed ballot boxes with thousands of completed ballots found at a garbage dump, its banning of the most popular political party and jailing of its leaders, its “let’s decide in the middle of the night to reach agreement on a winner,” should be an embarrassment to every Canadian taxpayer. We paid for this mess to the tune of more than $30 million.

Jamaica's ruling party hails its first female president
It’s euphoria for thousands in Jamaica as they celebrate the election of the ruling People’s National Party’s (PNP) first woman president in history and most likely the island’s first ever female prime minister. Portia Simpson Miller crossed the finishing line as the nation’s favourite to take over from current prime minister, PJ Patterson, who is due to relinquish the top post at the end of next month when he retires.

GM Food Goes on Trial
The fundamental rule of retail is: The consumer is always right. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has once again disregarded this rule by declaring the majority of European consumers wrong.

Radiocarbon review rewrites European pre-history
The ancestors of modern man moved into and across Europe, ousting the Neanderthals, faster than previously thought, a new analysis of radiocarbon data shows.

Garífunas sign accord with new Honduras president
Honduras’ new president, José Manuel “Mel” Zelaya Rosales, won the November 27, 2005 presidential elections because of his promise to look for resolutions to the country’s problems....

CHEIKH ANTA DIOP: A CELEBRATION
Cheikh Anta Diop and W.E.B. Du Bois were jointly awarded the 1966 prestigious African World festival of arts and culture prize for scholars who had "exerted the greatest influence on African peoples in the 20th century". Diop’s scholarship benefited immensely from his impressive multidisciplinary studies in France between 1946 and 1960. He was a physicist, mathematician, philosopher, historian, linguist, anthropologist and Egyptologist.

Shell locked in bitter legal battle over pollution in Nigeria
Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, which is locked in a bitter legal battle over environmental damage in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Delta, is appealing against a hefty 1.5-billion-dollar (1.2-billion-euro) fine for pollution.

White Blindness: Racism on ESPN?

U.S., Europe back the occupier and punish Hamas

Rewriting History

'US jail in Afghanistan worse than Guantanamo'