Transition: America’s prime Black civil rights activist, Rev Jesse Jackson, waves world last goodbye as he ‘returns to the Pavilion’ aged 84
Jesse Jackson famously marched with the Rev Martin Luther King Jr in civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s and was with King the morning he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
Pop icon Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, accuses her dad’s estate executors of abusing roles to pad their own pockets
The executors are entitled to the reimbursement because they won the anti-SLAPP motion. Still, a spokesperson for Paris spun the filing as a money play by the executors.
New evidence in basketball icon Michael Jordan dad’s murder suggests court may have jailed wrong man
Daniel Green, now 49, has spent more than three decades behind bars for a murder he insists he didn’t commit. His legal team has fought tirelessly to prove his innocence, but until now, their efforts have been stonewalled. With Judge Weeks pushing for Green’s release, the North Carolina Parole Commission may finally take a fresh look at the case.
Chinese influence in Equatorial Guinea forces US to ease travel restrictions on President Nguema
The US officials said the decision to move ahead with the waiver was based in part on the fact that China, which is a growing presence in Equatorial Guinea, is seeking to build a naval base there. The proposed base would be China’s second in Africa, after Djibouti, but its first ever on the Atlantic Ocean.
