Month: July 2009

I was not the least bit unamused when the legendary Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was recently shown on television handcuffed by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police. It was actually the alleged crime for […]

Dakar, 10 July, 2009— A newborn in Africa in 2007 would have lived on average 52 years. That baby would have lived an additional 25 years if born in the Americas. Below are other highlights […]