Freedoms
This is the third of four columns observing Black History Month. John Brown Russwurm and Samuel Eli Cornish were the co-founders of Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper in America. Historians have documented that it is one of the most preserved Black newspapers. On March 16, 1827, Russwurm and Samuel Cornish published the first issue […]
U.S. President Joe Biden arrives at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, U.S., August 27, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Days before a . . .
Vice President Kamala Harris addresses attendees during the NAACP Convention July 29, 2023, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Paul Connors/Boston Herald) The United States is facing a “full-on attempt to attack” freedoms and liberties for Black Americans and other groups, Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday as she addressed hundreds of people in Boston. From recent U.S. […]
The US supreme court rulings which struck down the White House’s student debt relief plan, affirmative action in college admission and a Colorado law that protected LGBTQ+ rights portend “a national movement to attack hard-won and hard-fought freedoms”, Vice-President Kamala Harris has said. In
In a statement Mick Antoniw, Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, said new powers were authoritarian, draconian and risked undermining trust in policing. The Public Order Act gives police extra powers to prevent protests deemed to be violent or excessively disruptive. This includes new offences related to ‘locking on’, extending the use of stop […]
Independent Movie to be Screened in 200+ AMC and Regal Theaters Across the U.S. Beginning February 3, Commemorating Black History Month and Supporting Historically Black Colleges and Universities LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group (AMG) free-streaming digital platform, HBCU GO — the leading media provider for the nation’s 107 Historically […]
I’ve lived my entire life with the blessings of U.S. citizenship, but my ancestors grew up under Russian czars before emigrating. Whatever your ancestry, every American should tremble with gratitude for the liberty we enjoy here, although we don’t necessarily take time every day to contemplate those freedoms. Perhaps you will today if you read […]
Speaking at the 12th ASEAN-UN Summit, Secretary-General António Guterres painted a picture of many in the Global South, “battered” by COVID and the climate crisis – restricting access to food, energy, and finance – and global insecurity triggering new conflicts while making it increasingly difficult to end old ones. He also drew attention to a […]
Americans have always held, as a matter of faith, that if they don’t like something, at least they have the freedom to raise hell about it. At a minimum, it makes them feel better – like they’ve done something. There’s even the possibility that it might lead to change. When it became clear that the […]
Territory’s government tells countries to stop ‘interfering’ in its internal affairs after damning assessments on freedoms. Hong Kong has responded with fury over what it described as “unfounded and ridiculous allegations” in key reports from the United Kingdom and the United States that said the territory’s democratic rights and freedoms were continuing to deteriorate. In […]