BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE March 28, 2013 Robert Zimmerman Jr., brother of accused killer George Zimmerman, released statements on Twitter in which he likened Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old his brother shot and killed to De’Marquise Elkins, a 17-year-old, who along with… Read More ›
Month: March 2013
SUPREME COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE March 26, 2013 On Tuesday the Supreme Court hears arguments on Proposition 8, a California State ban on same-sex marriage. Hollingsworth v. Perry, got filed in 2009 by David Boies and Theodore B. Olson, two high-profile Attorneys… Read More ›
CHINUA ACHEBE, AUTHOR OF ‘THINGS FALL APART’ HAS DIED
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE March 22, 2013 Known worldwide as a great Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe acclaimed author of “Things Fall Apart” died at the age of 82, according to a release by his British publisher Penguin Books. When Achebe wrote… Read More ›
HUGO CHAVEZ WILL NOT BE EMBALMED
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE March 16, 2013 Initial State plan was to have his body stay in perpetuity. Current regime in Venezuela wanted the body of Hugo Chavez preserved forever, as a symbol of the anti-imperialist movement he stood for until… Read More ›
BLOOMBERG, VOWS NY WILL CHALLENGE RULING ON SUGARY DRINK
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE March 11, 2013 Mayor Michael Bloomberg, wants to save the City from obesity, a disease that plagues New York, making it impossible to avert health risks associated with fat. To do so, he went to court and… Read More ›
HUGO CHAVEZ, AGAINST HEGEMONY AND CAPITALIST INTRUSION
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE March 6, 2013 Till his death he fought Western domination and foreign intrusion. Hugo Chavez was anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist who gave all his life for liberation of the Venezuelan people. Before he succumbed to cancer on March… Read More ›