The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s (BLMGNF) leader, Shalomyah Bowers, is being sued for allegedly stealing more than $10 million in donations to the organization. Black Lives Matter Grassroots, a nonprofit organization representing BLM chapters across the country, filed the complaint.
On June 10, 1887, a widely publicised eviction happened near Bodyke in east Clare. This farm belonged to John O’Halloran. It wasn’t unusual then for women to be at the forefront in eviction wars. The O’Halloran Sisters, Honoria, Annie and Sarah and
Zimbabwe is drowning in international debt as it begins to pay the price for heavily borrowing from China for infrastructure projects at the end of Robert Mugabe’s reign. Chinese financiers are currently funding large infrastructure projects such as the expansion of the
According to a post on her verified social media account, Jane Fonda has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and has begun chemotherapy treatment. She wrote. “This is a very treatable cancer. 80% of people survive, so I feel fortunate,” Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is
Travelling by train was a luxurious and expensive thing in the early 1900s reserved for the wealthy. Trains were a popular means of transportation in the early to the mid-20th century. These vintage photos let us see what travelling by train looked
President Joe Biden accused former President Donald Trump and his supporters of promoting an extreme ideology that threatens democracy in uncommon prime-time remarks Thursday as he stepped up attacks on conservatives before the midterm elections. “Too much of what’s taking place in
In the early 1900s, electricity and running water were regular in the Western world. As a result of industrialisation, the structure of buildings kept going through an evolution. The introduction of more advanced kitchen fixtures, modern appliances, cabinets, gas stoves and many
Democrat Mary Peltola, a former state representative, will be the first Alaska Native in Congress after she had won a special election that included GOP applicants Nick Begich and previous Gov. Sarah Palin. Mary Peltola, the executive director of the Kuskokwim River
The last surviving member of the Monkees is suing the FBI over a “secret dossier” he believes the company holds on him and his former bandmates. Micky Dolenz, aged 77, the previous frontman for the famous British-American 1960s combo, filed the lawsuit
Last week, US Customs and Border Protection officers and the Office of Field Operations discovered a “colossal” amount of cocaine worth nearly $12 million. According to a CBP news release issued Monday, the drugs were discovered inside a 2016 Stoughton trailer at
Hallie Twomey was devastated after her son CJ committed Suicide. Then she discovered an unusual way to remember him. In November 2013, three years after she and her husband John lost their 20-year-old son, an Air Force veteran, Hallie published an uncommon
According to his family, an Ohio man is expected to recover after being stung approximately 20,000 times by bees and ingesting about 30 of them while cutting tree branches last week. Austin Bellamy, 20, was climbing a tree Friday morning to help
Bill Turnbull, the beloved British broadcaster who hosted BBC Breakfast for 15 years, died at 66. Turnbull’s family issued a statement in the last few minutes saying he died peacefully at his home in Suffolk yesterday, surrounded by his family. In 2017,
According to multiple reports, a 26-year-old airport worker died after her hair became entangled in machinery at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport (MSY) in Louisiana. Jermani Thompson, who was in an area with parked planes when she became seriously injured at the
The picture above shows eight years old Isaac and six years old Rosa with arms linked and looking into the camera. These two former slave children from Louisiana somehow found themselves in a Broadway photographer’s studio in 1863. Before the children had
William West, an African American, entered the prison at Leavenworth in the United States on May 1, 1903. He went through the required check-in procedures and the routine Bertillon measurement system. While putting in his details, the identification staff saw his measurement
