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UN Urges Caribbean to Show Solidarity Toward Venezuelans as Numbers Fleeing Country Reach 4.5 Million

UN Urges Caribbean to Show Solidarity Toward Venezuelans as Numbers Fleeing Country Reach 4.5 Million

CARACAS, Venezuela, Monday October 28, 2019 – The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), the European Union (EU) and the UN migration agency (IOM) in a joint statement have called for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to show solidarity toward Venezuelans, with around 80 per cent of those who have left, sheltering in the […]

Afro Hair: How Black Finns Are Taking on Racism

By Naima Mohamud, BBC NEWS

Afro Hair: How Black Finns Are Taking on Racism

The women behind the Good Hair Day: Paloma Sandberg (l), Vanessa Daniels, Michaela Moua, Saida Mäki-Penttilä and Akunna Onwen . Photo by Pricilla Osei.   More than 50,000 people with African background live in Finland, according to Statistics Finland. Michaela Moua is one of them. Born to a Finnish mother and Ivorian father, she is […]

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice And Former Chair Of Board Of Directors Of Municipal Credit Union Charged With Obstruction Of Justice

Former New York City Police Department Officer and Supervisory Committee Member Also Charged With Embezzlement, Fraud, and Controlled Substance Offenses

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice And Former Chair Of Board Of Directors Of Municipal Credit Union Charged With Obstruction Of Justice

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice, Sylvia Ash (justice.gov) Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SYLVIA ASH, presiding judge of the Kings County Supreme Court, Commercial Division, and former chair of the board of directors of Municipal Credit Union (“MCU”), was charged in Manhattan federal court with […]