Author: Uruakpa Innocent
Donald Trump ordered US military airstrikes against ISIS-linked targets in Nigeria on Christmas night, marking a dramatic escalation in America’s counterterrorism response following deadly attacks on Christian communities in the country, according to US officials. The strikes were launched after reports of mass killings of Christians in parts of Nigeria, attacks that US authorities attributed […]
Did You Know the First Open-Heart Surgery Was Performed by a Black Surgeon No One Talks About? It’s a headline built to stop a scroll, and it points to a real story that deserves attention. But the history is slightly more complicated than the claim suggests. A Black surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, performed a […]
Vince Zampella, the influential video game developer best known as a driving force behind the Call of Duty franchise and co-founder of Respawn Entertainment, has died following a fatal car crash in Southern California, British broadcaster BBC News reports. Zampella’s unexpected death has sent shockwaves through the gaming community. Local authorities confirmed the collision was […]
A Mount Vernon police officer undergoing dialysis after suffering kidney failure has lost his health insurance after the city terminated his retirement just six months before he would have become eligible for lifetime medical benefits, according to his family and city officials. The officer, who served the department for years and was approaching retirement eligibility, […]
Shirley Chisholm did not enter American politics to fit in. She entered to force change. When she arrived on the national stage in the late 1960s, Washington was dominated by white men and governed by assumptions about who could lead, who could speak, and whose communities mattered. Chisholm challenged all of it, directly, publicly, and […]
