Image courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Article by Christine Fisher, EnGadget Electric vehicles will play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but they are not yet a perfect solution. Today, most EVs run on lithium-ion batteries made with heavy metals like...
Image courtesy of Omoeko Media via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Article by Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa The funding pitch for off-grid energy companies across Africa can be boiled down to one poignant statistic: the continent is home to world’s slowest electrification rate. The problem is most significant in...
Image courtesy of Getty Article by Jimmy Nsubuga, yahoo news UK A street in the City of London is set to become the first to ban petrol and diesel cars. Continue reading here....
Image courtesy of PXFuel (Creative Commons, CC0) Article by Elise Solé, Yahoo Lifestyle Chili peppers aren’t for the faint of heart, but maybe they should be. Scientists in Italy say the spice slashes the mortality rate from heart attack and cerebrovascular disease (which restricts blood flow to the...
Image by Daniel Leal-Olivas via Wikimedia Commons (CCA-SA 4.0 Int'l) Article by Bernard Beanz Smalls, via Hip-Hop Wired Over the weekend, Jamaica’s Toni-Ann Singh was crowned Miss World. Her win put an exclamation point on the 2019 pageant circuit because, for the first time ever, Black women now...
Basic info: Song Title: "Friday's On" Artist: Ziggy Marley Genre(s): Reggae, Rock, Blues Formats: Streaming Record Label:Tuff Gong Worldwide Release Date: December 13, 2019 Stream/Download/Buy: [mks_button size="medium" title="YouTube" style="rounded" url="https://lnk.to/fridayson_yt" target="_blank" bg_color="#ed5c5c" txt_color="#ffffff" icon="fa-youtube-play" icon_type="fa" nofollow="0"] Lyrics: [mks_toggle title="Friday's On" state="close "]To all the youths dem standing up to gun...
Ziggy has just released a brand new single, "Friday's On", out TODAY on YouTube and coming next week all on streaming platforms! The song is inspired by the youth activists around the world fighting to make a difference for a better tomorrow. The song is...
Image by Daniel Lobo via Flickr (CC0 1.0) Article by Rozina Sabur, via The Telegraph A city in Illinois has announced it will create a reparations fund for its African American community through a new tax on marijuana sales. Recreational use of the drug will become legal in the...
Julian Marley's album "As I Am", released earlier this year, has received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Reggae Album. This is Julian's second GRAMMY nomination, following a nomination for his 2009 release "Awake". "As I Am" is nominated for Best Reggae Album along with Koffee's "Rapture", Sly...
Image by Mike Corder (AP Photo) Article by Mike Corder, via Associated Press Greta Thunberg, a young activist who has gone from staging school strikes to scolding world leaders about their climate change inaction, was awarded the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize on Wednesday, along with Cameroon peace...