It's not just conservative white Americans that are against the Senate's immigration reform plan that would grant earned legalization to millions of undocumented migrants. A group calling themselves simply 'Choose Black America' has emerged to oppose what they claim is an 'illegal alien amnesty', reports Hard Beat News.

Spanish TV cameras frequently capture images of undocumented African immigrants flocking to the Canary Islands. The sight of black masses disembarking on the Canaries reawakens centuries-old racial prejudice, says historian Antumi Toasije, cultural councillor with the Pan-Africanist Federation of Spain's Black Communities, who has studied Western stereotypes of Africans, reports the Mail and Gaurdian.

School heads want secondary education declared free by the Government. And all those who qualify for admission to local public universities should be admitted. These were some of the proposals they made to the Government as they concluded their five-day Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association annual conference at Kasarani, Nairobi.

At least 8,800 children in Tanzania's semiautonomous island of Zanzibar are missing school and wasting away their childhood as they engage in various forms of child labour, a government minister has said. Most parents have their children engage in activities such as fishing and picking cloves and consider this as part of the child's education.