5 people escape from Sydney cafe in hostage crisis
By KRISTEN GELINEAU SYDNEY (AP) — Five people escaped from a Sydney cafe where a gunman took an unknown number of hostages during Monday morning rush …
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Activists shut down Art Basel with anti-violence vigil
Throngs of jetsetters from around the globe descended upon Miami last week for the annual Art Basel contemporary art festival. Activists and local artists held …
Black people are guilty until proved innocent
At eleven years old I was almost incarcerated at the Youth House in New York City for beating a white boy for calling me the …
Focus on the remedy
I’ve never seen a real noose. Never had someone from another race call me the “N” word Never been intimidated by someone else based on …
These protesters are out of order
First they protested because of the shooting of an 18 year-old Black teenager, Michael Brown, by a white policeman, Darren Wilson, as Brown resisted arrest. …
Racism is the cancer that is devouring our nation
I am not one to make public statements and, more especially, statements that are not complimentary to the country that I love. Yet, I am …
United Nations concludes: US tortures blacks
SOUTH FLORIDA — The United States continues to reel from the social and political fallout of decisions not to prosecute white police officers in the …
Obama: Avoid ‘militarized’ police
By NEDRA PICKLER Special to South Florida Times WASHINGTON (AP) —President Barack Obama said Monday he wants to ensure the U.S. isn’t building a “militarized …