Almost from the moment it docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, much has been written about the Clotilda, the schooner that brought 110 captive Africans to the U.S. in 1860, more than five decades after the slave trade had been outlawed. The illegal voyage was conducted with stealth, but the arrival of the ship was an
Month: February 2024
“I feel like a cat with more than nine lives,” Shakira told Billboard in September 2023. “Whenever I think I can’t get any better, I suddenly get a second wind. I’ve gone through several stages: denial, anger, pain, frustration, anger again, pain again. Now I’m in a survival stage. Like, just get your head above
An arm of the giant Indian conglomerate Tata is in the frame to take over the running of Britain’s Faster Payments Service – even as one of its sister companies prepares to lay off thousands of Welsh-based steelworkers. Sky News has learnt that Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a leading contender to become the administrator
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has revealed to Sky News she no longer goes out socially because of threats and abuse and that she was “scared” when confronted by pro-Palestinian supporters. The senior frontbencher said the level of intimidation had impacted on her day-to-day life and she had changed her behaviour. People wanting to see
In 2023, the names of two women were on everyone’s lips: Barbie, and Taylor Swift. Both are represented at the Grammy Awards tonight. Swift‘s music needs no introduction of course, while Barbie makes the cut thanks to the contributions to the film’s soundtrack by Billie Eilish and Dua Lipa (Ryan Gosling’s I’m Just Ken sadly
The suspected chemical attacker who targeted a woman and children is still at large, and the focus is on the police finding hm. But inside government, serious questions are starting to be raised about how a convicted sex offender is understood to have been granted asylum, after being handed a suspended jail sentence. Abdul Shokoor
Shares in Facebook’s parent company Meta have soared after it was announced that dividends will be paid to investors for the first time. Stock in the tech giant surged by more than 15% – adding more than £110bn to its valuation. To put this into context, that rise alone is five times higher than the
That recent 28 Days Later good news which revealed that not only were Danny Boyle and Alex Garland reteaming to make 28 Years Later but that the horror sequel officially found a studio home and roped in original lead Cillian Murphy to produce and potentially star should please all zombie-movie fans. However, there’s one famous fan who
2024 has already seen a slew of festival lineup announcements, and following the disappointment by some (most) people at one particularly large Southern California festival’s lineup, the lineup from Lightning in a Bottle, So Cal’s premiere boutique camping festival, is utterly jaw dropping. Returning to Buena Vista Lake, a couple of hours north of Los
At least two people have been killed and 29 injured after gas explosion in Nairobi, according to reports. A local newspaper in the Kenyan capital said the blast happened in the Embakasi neighbourhood just before midnight on Thursday. Wesley Kimeto, commander in charge of police in Embakasi, was quoted saying on the Standard newspaper’s X
by Trevor Kimball, January 20, 2024 (Photo: Max) Another Max show has been cancelled, but it wasn’t the streaming service’s idea this time. The Flight Attendant won’t be returning for a third season because executive producer and star Kaley Cuoco feels two seasons is enough. A dark comedy-drama series, The Flight Attendant is based on
Photography courtesy of launchmetrics.com/spotlightCanadian and international skincare, cosmetic and grooming brands that deserve your dollars. By FASHION Staff Date February 1, 2024 One surefire way to invest in Black communities and culture is to shop from Black-run businesses. Below, we’ve rounded up a list of both emerging and established Black-run beauty and grooming brands that
Some of Ben Guterson’s most treasured childhood memories center around two now-defunct grand old department stores in downtown Seattle: Frederick & Nelson and The Bon Marché. They “were absolutely places of magic for me,” the author reminisces in a call from his home in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. “At Christmastime, I would go
Girl, watch your mouth. It all started when the Girl, Wash Your Face author posted about her house cleaner and it got increasingly dirty. In a clip of the since-deleted post resurfaced by Angie Treasure, Hollis referenced an April 2021 livestream where she spoke about a woman who “cleans the toilets,” noting that “someone commented and
There was a time when he’d have jumped at the chance – not today, not with this president. Alabas Farhat, Democratic representative for the state of Michigan, declined the invitation for a “meet and greet” with Joe Biden and he wasn’t alone. Arab Muslim community leaders in the greater Detroit area snubbed the campaign visit
A former CIA employee has been jailed for 40 years over the largest leak of classified information in the agency’s history. Joshua Schulte, a software engineer from New York, passed the data to whistleblowing agency WikiLeaks in the so-called Vault 7 leak in 2017. Prosecutors, who had pushed for a full life term, said in