India to the rescue in Senegalese rice shortfall

(GIN)-India has agreed to sell 600,000 tons of rice to the west African nation of Senegal where critical shortages of the food staple triggered a...

Freedom Day draws thousands in Kwazulu-Natal

(GIN)-The 14th anniversary of Freedom Day marks the day when millions of South Africans voted in the country's first democratic elections.

This year, thousands converged at...

Peace deal near collapse in Burundi

(GIN)-Fresh fighting has broken out in Burundi, a coffee growing nation of eigh million which is emerging from more than a decade of ethnic war...

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright preaches racial tolerance: 'Different, not deficient,' pastor says of blacks, whites

By Bankole Thompson
Special to the NNPA
from the Michigan Chronicle

DETROIT (NNPA)-The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, told 12,000...

Burden of asthma among blacks in Indiana

Courtesy of the Indiana State
Department of Health

INDIANAPOLIS-Asthma is a common chronic disease affecting more than half a million Hoosiers. The Indiana State Department of Health's...

Needle passed at quilt gathering

FORT WAYNE-The 18th Annual Gathering of Quilters was held at the Honeywell Center in Wabash, Indiana on April 5, hosted by the Sew Pieceful Quilters...