The killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Tony McDade have once again brought the urgent need for racial justice to the forefront of conversation in America. Wide-scale protests against racism and police brutality as well as civic unrest have made it impossible for the nation (and the world) to ignore the consequences of a long history of racism and racist violence. As many people confront hard truths that black Americans have faced daily in this country, the need for education about the history of the long and ongoing fight for racial justice is critical.

In a heartbreaking viral video, a bullied boy knocks on his neighbor's door and asked if they knew any kids his age because he needed friends. Source: TikTok / @brennanrayAlthough the internet is known to be harmful, it can be a nice place now and then. In July 2023, a bullied Texas boy went viral on TikTok after knocking on his neighbor's door to ask if they knew anyone he could be friends with.

Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Friday, February, 4th 2022. According to The PUNCH, the Federal Government says the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has uncovered 96 financiers of terrorism as well as the 424 associates and supporters of the financiers. One year after the Federal Government imposed the National Identification Number and Subscribers Identification Module card (NIN-SIM) verification and linkage exercise on Nigerians, with the hope of curbing rising insecurity in the country, nothing concrete has so far been achieved in stemming the tide of attacks, The Guardian reports.

Original guitarist for the Zombies Paul Atkinson, original guitarist for British Invasion act the Zombies who became a prominent record industry exec, died Thursday at the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center after a long battle with liver and kidney disease.

The ice storm that hit Nashville this February was the worst in 20 years. Freezing rain glazed the roads, so when one of Michael Cunnyngham’s employees discovered he had a flat tire, there was already a long queue of auto-club members ahead of him who had put in calls for help. “They said they’d be there in an hour. Then it was two hours,” recalls Cunnyngham, who runs a tech company.