December 2010 Blog Posts (30)

Preparing to head into town for a holiday parade, a Mississippi state senator and Greenwood city councilman received a

 phone call that turned his festive mood somber.

by Takia White

Special to Tri-State Defender

It was Friday, Dec. 3, and the call David Jordan received came from a local police officer, who told him that a young…

Ex-CIA agent James McCord didn’t think he would be stopped from installing wiretaps at Democratic National

By Stephen Millies

 Committee headquarters by an $80-per-week security guard. Neither did fellow Watergate burglar Bernard Barker, a former member of CIA-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista’s secret police.…

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge Tuesday ordered the U.S. government to pay more than $2.5 million in attorney

Myles Murphy  /  Ashland Daily Tidings via AP file

Norman Borlaug, whose work in Mexico and India led to the 'green revolution' in agricultural production, died last week

Africa needs to decide its own online future, thinks Bill Thompson

Fast broadband will transform Africa, and the rest of the world will change too, says Bill Thompson.

 and was widely commemorated for his important work.

While the introduction of new crops and the use of…

Nine years after 9/11, hysteria about Muslims in American life has gripped the country. With it has gone an outburst of

The Islamophobic crusade has gone beyond the right-wing pro-Israel activists and cyber-bigots. It now belongs to leading Republican presidential candidates, top-rated cable news hosts, and crowds of Tea Party activists, notes Max Blumenthal.

Inside the Bizarre Cabal of Secretive…

It is the "most expensive Christmas tree ever," with a "value of over 11 million dollars," said Hans Olbertz, general

Christmas came in extravagant fashion to the Muslim desert emirate of Abu Dhabi as a glitzy hotel unveiled a bejewelled Christmas tree valued at more than 11 million dollars on Wednesday.

manager of Emirates…

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  Photographing Babies…

Alya Nuri is a 10-year old American Muslim, author, and motivational speaker. She started her

writing career at the tender age of 7 and has recently published a 4 book series called “Things Every Kid Should Know”.

Her books target a younger audience and aim to educate and promote prevention of smoking, alcohol, drugs and bullying. Alya is a homeschooled 7th grader and loves reading books and working for the welfare of the poor and needy. She…

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. -- Lisa Valentine believes suing the city of Douglasville is the only way to

right a wrong.

Two years ago a city judge sent her to jail because she wouldn’t take off her religious headscarf before entering the municipal courthouse.

“This is part of me. Without it, it’s like…

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and United Nations World Food Programme

By Henry Neondo

(WFP) are to jointly launch humanitarian programme to assist displaced people in the Afgooye corridor southwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu.



A memorandum of understanding between…

ARUSHA---The study titled The New Harvest, Agricultural Innovation in Africa, led by Harvard

By Lilian Museka

University Professor Calestous Juma, is in contrast with entrenched, gloomy perceptions of…

A new survey by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Gauteng, South Africa’s wealthiest

By Eric Sande

province, found that 37. 4 per cent of men admitted having committed a rape, while 25.3 per cent of women said they had been raped.



The survey questioned 511 women and 487 men, of whom 90 per cent were black and 10 per cent…