The immigrant politician in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party says he will not alter his election campaigning despite suffering hostility and racial abuse from far-right opponents. Zeca Schall, who immigrated from Angola in 1988, is featured on campaign posters for Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union in the eastern state of Thuringia. The far-right National Democratic Party has defaced the posters with the message, “Have a good trip home Zeca Schall” and abused him with racial epithets in statements.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Harvard professor, author, friend to Oprah, and chronicler and excavator of African American culture, was arrested for disorderly conduct Thursday at his home in Cambridge, Mass., according to the AP.A spokeswoman for the Cambridge Police Department confirmed to Gawker that Gates was arrested on a single charge of disorderly conduct at 12:44 a.m. last Thursday, but declined to elaborate or offer any further information: "We are not releasing information because this is currently under investigation."

Open Letter To Mr Zuma: By Kathy Mokgatle 
Dear Mr Zuma,
I am writing today to let you know of my disappointment with the ANC. I am the wife of an ex political prisoner. His name is Zonga Mokgatle, he is one of the Upington fourteen, that were sentenced to death and put on death row by the previous government. My husand and I live apart because it is the only way we survive financially. We have no home and my husband earns an exremley low salary working for the local municipality. I received a phone call from him today. He needed money for a doctors appointment. Sixteen years after being released from the horrors of death row, he is still unable to afford a medical doctor’s consultation. He is sick at the moment, this recurring illness stems from his beatings and torture he recieved when he was arrested by the Apartheid  government. As he gets older, so his injuries give him more problems.

Martin Luther King, Jr. US Civil-Rights Leader, 1929 - 1968 was born on January 15, 1929 at his family home in Atlanta, Georgia. King was an eloquent Baptist minister and leader of the civil-rights movement in America from the Mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. King promoted non-violent means to achieve civil-rights reform and was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. King's grandfather was a Baptist preacher. His father was pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church. King earned his own Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozier Theological Seminary in 1951 and earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Boston University in 1955.