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3 weeks ago | face2faceafrica.com | Mildred Europa Taylor

Ja Rule fulfilled his promise to build a new school building in Ghana on Monday. In April 2024, he broke ground for the construction of a classroom block for the St. John’s Anglican Basic School in Nuaso in the Eastern Region of the country. The building of the classroom block was in partnership with Pencils of Promise, a U.S. non-profit organization that seeks to create a better world through education, building schools, and WASH programs.

3 weeks ago | face2faceafrica.com | Mildred Europa Taylor

Larissa Camp’s life changed forever after she lost part of her hand to a close-range gunshot. “I put my hand directly in front of the gun,” Camp recalled to 11Alive. “And I hear a loud bang, I see smoke, my ears are ringing.”“The second bullet goes through my arm, and through some layers of skin on my chest and through the door,” she said, recounting how she survived intimate partner violence in 2004. Despite losing all of the fingers on her right hand, she is thankful to be alive.

3 weeks ago | face2faceafrica.com | Mildred Europa Taylor

When Extasy James was three years old, her father was deported to his home country in Jamaica due to several charges related to cannabis. “It impacted me greatly – my mother has four children, and I’m the oldest, so I stepped up,” James told The Story Exchange. James’ family were among several victims of America’s war on drugs which negatively impacted people who were arrested and tried for drug-related charges as well as their families.

1 month ago | face2faceafrica.com | Mildred Europa Taylor

The oyster aquaculture industry has been one of Rhode Island’s fastest growing sectors over the past 10 years. In 2023, over $8 million oysters were sold by farmers in Rhode Island, and across the U.S., oyster sales brought $327 million to the economy that year, according to figures cited by Boston Globe. Interestingly, before oysters started to become mainstream in the 19th century, they were considered the poor man’s food.

1 month ago | face2faceafrica.com | Mildred Europa Taylor

“Pure Hell.” That’s how John “Divine G” Whitfield describes a part of his experience at the Sing Sing correctional facility, a maximum security prison in Ossining, New York state, where he served a 25-year sentence for a crime he says he did not commit. He was accused of the murder of a white drug dealer who had been shot in the back of the building where he lived.