Egypt — Egypt is now off the grid. Four days after the Egyptian government ordered Internet service providers to disconnect from the Internet, the country’s last working Internet company has abruptly vanished from cyberspace. Noor Group, a small service provider that hosted Internet connections for the country’s stock exchange and other businesses, became completely unreachable […]
Sports movies can be a challenge to make. The main hurdle for filmmakers is trying to deliver a movie solid enough to satisfy die hard fans while simultaneously supplying enough overall entertainment value throughout it to rein in non-sports lovers. Though classic flicks like Rocky and Hoosiers do jump that hurdle, the majority of sports […]
New York — Theirs was a partnership built on vision and pride and rooted in a building at the very heart of black America. In 2002 the National Black Theater, a cultural anchor of Harlem, invited the owners of Nubian Heritage, a growing beauty-care company with an African pedigree, to invest in its sprawling building […]
New York — His family calls him “Olakunle,” a name that means “the wealth that fills the house” in the Yoruba language of Nigeria, where Akeem Ajimotokan grew up adored as the youngest of four boys. But Mr. Ajimotokan’s real richness, his family said Monday, is in the trust and generosity he has always showered […]
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Chicago — Last week, Chicago’s Police Board voted to allow convicted police lieutenant Jon Burge to keep his $3,000-a-month pension. But one civil rights leader plans to fight that ruling tooth and nail. Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the elder statesmen of the civil rights movement and a major political force in the city and […]
