• Communist Party of Cuba addresses media cooperation in China

    Beijing, Apr 21 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) participated on Sunday in the inauguration of the Seminar on Media Cooperation among the world's political parties in this capital. The post Communist Party of Cuba addresses media cooperation in China first appeared on Prensa Latina.

  • Catholic Church in communist Cuba proposes an open dialogue with the government

    HAVANA — The Catholic Church in communist-run Cuba, which has been instrumental to resolving political tensions in the past, is proposing a national dialogue to help resolve the economic crisis that has gripped the island. In an interview with NBC News, Father Ariel Suárez, assistant secretary of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba, said that “if the different political actors agree, they can offer a space for dialogue, a meeting place, so that all the different positions can help find...

  • Los Angeles' mass uprisings in search of Black justice have punctuated my life, and my library

    My life — and my book collection — in Los Angeles have been punctuated by mass rebellions. The most recent addition to my library is Gary Phillips’ excellent “Ash Dark as Night,” his second book featuring Harry Ingram, a Black freelance photographer and budding sleuth. It opens with Harry risking life and limb to capture the 1965 Watts riots on film, including the murder by police of a charismatic young Black organizer. The chaotic violence and police retaliation Ingram photographs in the book...

  • 'The Big Cigar' trailer follows Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton's escape to Cuba

    Based on Joshuah Bearman's journalism, Apple TV+ series "The Big Cigar" tracks Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton and his escape from the U.S. — with Hollywood help.

  • Black Food Truck Festival celebrates Black-owned businesses

    Now in its third year (and fifth event), the Black Food Truck Festival (BFTF) has grown into an impressive showing of not only Black food trucks, but of a community hungry for more opportunities to celebrate Black-owned businesses.  The festival takes place April 26 through April 28, with an opening night event held on Friday […]

  • Black, Black-biracial student celebration set for May 25

    A first-ever celebration of local Black, and Black-biracial public, private and home-schooled students’ accomplishments will be held at 7 p.m. May 25 at the Columbus Learning Center, 4555 Central Ave. in Columbus. Continue reading at The Republic News.

  • Black Trump Supporter Criticizes Biden for 'Disrupting' Black Community

    A black woman who was captured on video Wednesday praising and hugging former President Donald Trump at a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta, Georgia, criticized President Joe Biden for "disrupting" and oppressing the black community.

  • VIDEO: Stephen A. Smith Apologizes for Saying Blacks Relate to Trump, Then Cites Growing Support for Trump Among Blacks

    Stephen A. Smith apologized Monday for saying that blacks could relate to Trump because the former president has faced legal persecution.

  • Tinubu, is this a military regime?

    THE abduction, detention and subsequent torture and dehumanisation of the Editor of an online newspaper, FirstNews, Segun Olatunji, must not be swept under the carpet. President Bola Tinubu must prove to Nigerians that he is not using the cover of democracy to run a military regime. On March 15, armed men arrested Olatunji from his Read More

  • Cluster of earthquakes shakes Taiwan

    A cluster of earthquakes struck the island republic of Taiwan early Tuesday, the strongest having a magnitude of 6.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no reports of casualties in the quakes, although there were further damages to two multi-story buildings that had been evacuated following a magnitude

  • How the U.S. Regime Works

    Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) An excellent example of how the U.S. regime works was provided in a news-report by Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill at The Intercept on April 15th, titled “LEAKED NYT GAZA MEMO TELLS JOURNALISTS TO AVOID WORDS ‘GENOCIDE,’ ‘ETHNIC CLEANSING,’ AND ‘OCCUPIED TERRITORY’”. It displayed the fact that the management of […]

  • We Shall Rest by Sheila Black

      The elm split by lightening stands above the bench where my father sat the summer he could no longer breathe enough to walk to the Avalon without stopping. I sat next to him, a little bored, a little tired of his child-like need—his insistence on walking even when he could not walk. In the film, we watched that day, a group of actors are rehearsing a play. The star runs through his lines in the car in which he is driven to and fro from his hotel to the provincial but charming theater. He is a...