Dress code: Texas high school sends Black student back to in-school suspension over dreadlocks
George’s family has filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency and a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general along with the school district, alleging they failed to enforce the new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles.
Kenya’s doomsday cult leader to appeal 12 months jail sentence for illegal film production
Mackenzie’s lawyer James Mouko said he would appeal against the ruling. Local media reported Mackenzie was convicted and fined for a similar offence in 2017.
Unforgiving Pope Francis punishes critic Cardinal Burke by revoking right to subsidised Vatican house, salary
Burke, a 75-year-old canon lawyer whom Francis had fired as the Vatican’s high court justice in 2014, has become one of the most outspoken critics of the pope, his outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics and his reform project to make the church more responsive to the needs of ordinary faithful.
UNESCO: Africa is next frontier in fashion industry but it’s growth is limited by low investment
“Africans want to wear Africa. It’s really beautiful to see because it hasn’t always been like this,” said Omoyemi Akerele, who founded the Lagos Fashion Week in 2011 to encourage the patronage of Nigerian and African fashion. “But fast forward, a decade after, that’s all people want to wear.”
Americans mark Thanksgiving against backdrop of rising antisemitism touched off by Gaza war
Thanksgiving Day as an official holiday dates to 1863, in the middle of the American Civil War, when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a day to give thanks and seek healing.
Thanksgiving Day in America: If you like me and do nice things for me, I’ll like you and do nice things for you
In animals and in humans, these aren’t always one-to-one transactions. Sometimes, an ape that gets groomed by another will later back that partner up in a fight, Suchak said, showing that reciprocity might not be about keeping exact scores, but forming broader emotional ties.
Timekeepers no more: Jehovah’s Witnesses say goodbye to tracking evangelism hours
The Governing Body now accepts that even in the final countdown to Armageddon, nonbelievers might still accept the truth and be saved. That reverses a previous understanding that, once an apocalyptic Great Tribulation gets underway, it would be too late.
In Museveni’s Uganda democracy buckled, now Busoga Kingdom is pushing for some autonomy
There aren’t many Basoga and Ugandans that can overstretch their imagination 100 years ahead to imagine what kind of World, Busoga or Uganda will be in the next century. So few are even aware to what extent the World Wide Web has changed knowledge and the way we generate and treat knowledge to make people have higher cognitive powers, engage in critical thinking, engage in critical analysis, become professionals of the future and engage in genuine teamwork for change.
Every dog has its day! Snoop Dogg won’t be puffing and huffing weed, wants fans not to dog him
Asking for privacy, hip-hop legend and longtime marijuana enthusiast Snoop Dogg says he’s going to stop smoking – although he didn’t specify exactly what that might mean. “After much consideration and conversation with my family, I’ve decided to give up smoke,” Snoop wrote in a message shared on Instagram and...
Regional and knowledge integration: Why integration of science is key to functional political, economic institutions
No integration scheme, such as East African Community or Nile Basin Initiative will succeed until we embrace, institutionalise and implement the new sciences as the cornerstones of education in the 21st century and beyond.
