By Lee A. Daniels
A man driven to sponsor and inspire incalculable horror and sadness around the globe is dead.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Don’t cry for Osama.

Kent State University in Ohio recently completed a $10.4 million renovation of Oscar Ritchie Hall which houses offices and classrooms for the department of Pan-African studies, the offices of black student organizations, the performance space for the African Community Theatre, and the Uumbaji Art Gallery.

Built in 1947, the building was renamed in 1977 to honor Oscar W. Ritchie, the first African American to serve as a faculty member at a predominantly white state university in Ohio.

On May 1, 2006, Drew Whitley walked free after 16 years of wrongful imprisonment.