Chinese pelted with stones by fed-up miners

(GIN)-Months of delays in settling complaints of poor working conditions, exploded in a rock-throwing melee by Zambian miners against Chinese managers at the Chambishi Smelter,...

Flawed elections foreseen for Ethiopia

(GIN)-Ethiopians will be getting their first chance to vote since the general election in 2005, which ended with violent protests and the jailing of most...

Largest class yet for Mandela's achievement prize

(GIN)-The Mandela Rhodes scholarship was awarded this year to 23 outstanding students from various countries-the largest student group in the scholarship's four years.

Former South African...

A growing trend: Better job, more money-but no health insurance

By James Wright
Special to the NNPA from
the Afro-American Newspapers

WASHINGTON (NNPA)- When Bre Lucas decided to change employers to get more money and more leave time,...

'Green' publication sold at Kroger to benefit community programs

FORT WAYNE-As part of The Kroger Co.'s environmental partnership with Fort Wayne's "Grassroots Green" organization, Kroger is selling copies of the "Green Living Guide for...

Mobile mammography unit at Walker Community Center

FORT WAYNE-The Francine's Friends Mobile, a traveling mammography unit, is scheduled to be at the Samuel Walker Community Center, 1151 Francis St., on March 18....

Movement moves to make world free of MS

INDIANAPOLIS-March 10 through March 17 is MS Awareness Week and the Indiana State Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is asking the entire community...

NAACP to host annual Freedom Fund Dinner in April

By Christopher W. Riley

FORT WAYNE-The Fort Wayne Branch of the NAACP is scheduled to host the 28th Annual Marjorie D. Wickliffe Freedom Fund Dinner on...