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District of Columbia: Washington mayor wants citizens to vote on statehood Mayor Muriel Bowser called for a city-wide vote in November to make the District of Columbia the 51st state in the union Associated Press WASHINGTON — District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to give residents a chance to vote on whether the nation’s […]

President Barack Obama visits Cuba- A look back at African populated Cuba President Barack Obama arrived in Cuba on March 20, 2016. With this visit President Obama is the first sitting U.S. president in 88 years to set foot on the island nation. The last sitting president to visit the country was Calvin Coolidge, who […]

United States elections: A Historical look back on a few mayoral elections Dilemma X takes this time to reflect back on the elections of a few African Americans to become mayors of American cities. The African American to be elected mayor of a U.S. town was in 1868, when Pierre Caliste Landry became mayor of Donaldsonville, […]

Marijuana officially legal in Washington, District of Columbia 1 Year Anniversary Of Marijuana Legalization In Washington, D.C. Only for those at least 21 years old The law legalizing marijuana in Washington, DC went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, February 26, 2015. The District of Columbia includes both district land and federal land. The new […]

Judge approves nearly $1 billion settlement between the U.S. Interior Department and Native American tribes The lawsuit accused the Interior Department of not paying tribes millions of dollars in federal contract costs to oversee federal Bureau of Indian Affairs programs and services dating back as far as the 1970s. Mary Hudetz Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. […]

See Update U.S. state Populations 2016: Most populous states -Release date: December 20, 2016 U.S. state Populations 2016: Most populous states -Release date: December 20, 2016 U.S. state Populations 2015: North Carolina becomes 9th state with 10 million or more people Propelled largely by growth in the Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham areas, North Carolina’s population passed the […]

Zimbabwe to adopt Chinese yuan as legal currency The Guardian (UK) Zimbabwe has announced that it will make the Chinese yuan legal tender after Beijing confirmed it would cancel $40m in debts. “They [China] said they are cancelling our debts that are maturing this year and we are in the process of finalising the debt […]

Sylvester Turner elected mayor of Houston, Texas Houston hasn’t elected a Republican mayor in more than 30 years. Houston elects Sylvester Turner (Democrat) as its next mayor.  Sylvester Turner defeated Republican businessman Bill King on 12 December 2015 to make him the next mayor of Houston, the fourth most-populous U.S. city (ranking by city limit population only, not by the […]

Africa: Gambia’s president declares Islamic statehood Leader Yahya Jammeh says his nation must reflect its Muslim majority and needs to break away from its colonial past. Al Jazeera Gambia’s president has declared the West African country an Islamic republic saying the decision was made because Islam is the religion of most citizens and the nation […]

African descent Mexicans counted in country’s Census for the first time For the first time ever, people of African descent living in Mexico were able to identify themselves as Afro-Mexican or African descent in the national census. Indigenous (Native to America) people of Mexico are also able to self-identify. The actual population size of both […]