Butterfield Travels to Georgia Detention Facility to Visit Wildin Acosta (GK...
(Source: GK Butterfield) WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) released the following statement following his visit to Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, where Wildin...
View ArticleNeighborhoods: African-American history and more in Harlem
By Beth J. Harpaz / The Associated PressNEW YORK — Decades of African-American history have made Harlem one of America’s most famous neighborhoods. It’s also an essential destination for visitors to...
View ArticleSupporters urge release of teen student facing deportation
A teen who says he risks death if he's deported to his native Honduras should be released from the custody of immigration officials and returned to North Carolina so he can finish high school,...
View ArticleDHS using unpopular raids to curb border crossings
The Obama administration is openly stepping up efforts to find and deport immigrants who were part of the 2014 surge of illegal crossings by unaccompanied children and families. The politically fraught...
View ArticleObama admin using unpopular raids to curb border crossings
The Obama administration is openly stepping up efforts to find and deport immigrants who were part of the 2014 surge of illegal crossings by unaccompanied children and families. The politically fraught...
View ArticleJoin a Gang or Die: Deported Central American Teens Face Harrowing Choice
It was 6:30 on a cold morning this past January, and Wildin Acosta, 19, was running late for school. As he rushed out the door of his red brick home in Durham, North Carolina, three Immigration and...
View ArticleMay 07, 2015CI to graduate over 2,000 students (California State University,...
(Source: California State University, Channel Islands) Camarillo, Calif., May 7, 2015 - More than 2,000 CSU Channel Islands (CI) candidates for graduation will receive degrees in separate morning and...
View ArticleHow Pop Culture Tells Women to Shut Up
In the early days of the United States, colonists imported from England a set of regulations that were ostensibly meant to maintain the public peace. They were called, collectively, “common scold”...
View ArticleMead High School honor roll
Mead High School has announced its honor roll for the second semester of the 2015-16 school year. Seniors 4.0 GPA Marco Ammatelli, Angela Basinger, Blaine Beeman, Thomas Beeson, Heidi Bonkemeyer, Tyler...
View ArticleNew Year's honours 2016: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas...
View ArticleEven Before Sanctuary Cities, Here's How Black Americans Protected Fugitive...
Abolitionist leaders even established networks to help lead slaves to freedom in Canada. Over the past few days, the national climate has grown increasingly tense over the issue of “sanctuary” cities...
View ArticleDurham Releases #BullCity Running Man Challenge Video
Wildin Acosta, the high school student who had been in federal immigration custody since January, was released Friday after his parents posted a $10,000 bond in Charlotte, a Latino advocacy group...
View ArticleTeen Picked Up by ICE on His Way to High School Faces Deportation to Honduras
Students at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina, are gathering on Capitol Hill today to demand the release of their undocumented classmate, 19-year-old Wildin Acosta. Acosta was detained by...
View ArticleCrowdfunded beer pipeline to protect medieval city of Bruges
BRUGES, Belgium (AP) — The idea may have seemed mad, but after all, the beer is called the Madman of Bruges — or Brugse Zot in Dutch. With the help of crowdfunding efforts among some 400 Madman fans,...
View Article10 Facts From History That Turn Gun Control Debate on Its Head
Gun control in the U.S.has historically been a racist’s weapon of choice against revolting slaves and Black militia Growing public consciousness about police brutality has boosted Black opinion on the...
View ArticleHomeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Takes High-School Detention to a New...
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Thursday, Jan. 28, was a cold morning in Durham, North Carolina. Wildin David Guillen Acosta went outside to head to school, but never made it. He was thrown to the...
View ArticleAmy Goodman: Honduran student’s detention is senseless
Thursday, Jan. 28, was a cold morning in Durham, North Carolina. Wildin David Guillen Acosta went outside to head to school, but never made it. He was thrown to the ground and arrested by agents from...
View ArticleAir Force staff sergeant promotion list for August, 2015
The U.S. Air Force's list of airmen promoted to staff sergeant, as released on Aug. 20, 2015. Abadia Christopher Abarawa Emmanuel K Abbott Daniel Patr Abdullah Malizio J Abendroth Marie Ch Abesamis...
View ArticleTeen Picked Up by ICE on His Way to High School Faces Deportation to Honduras
Students at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina, are gathering on Capitol Hill today to demand the release of their undocumented classmate, 19-year-old Wildin Acosta. Acosta was detained by...
View ArticleUnderground BEER pipeline is being built in Belgium after brewery...
A Belgian brewery is weeks from turning on the taps of a two-mile beer pipeline, which not only makes bottling easier but will also help ease the city's traffic problem. De Halve Maan has built a pipe...
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