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Transport yourself back into the past, to the year 1865. What if you had been a slave? You had seen friends and family sold. You had been whipped and worked to exhaustion. Every day was a nightmare. Now, a Union army officer, Major General Gordon Granger, arrives in Galveston, Texas, and issues a proclamation that […]
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Amnesty International Canada will contribute its expertise to court proceedings about the landmark Black Class Action lawsuit. In a decision dated February 8, Federal Court Associate Chief Justice Jocelyne Gagné granted Amnesty International Canada’s request to deliver arguments in the Black Class Action case, which targets systemic anti-Black racism in the federal public service. In […]
WASHINGTON — The House voted Tuesday to impose sanctions against the International Criminal Court for its move to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials for war crimes in the nation’s war against Hamas. The vote was 247-155, with nearly every Republican and a few dozen Democrats voting for . . […]
The ten years I have spent in Minnesota were an enriching enterprise. After graduating high school, and college in Collegeville, a frosty little university town, I started my Masters in lively Minneapolis, where I lived for two years. All the while I built friendships and cherished relations with people I met in and out of […]
Demonstrators from Australia to Europe identified with the cause of US protests and urged their own governments to address racism and police violence. Opponents of the United States’s foreign policy under President Donald Trump, meanwhile, took the opportunity to pour scorn on the violence that has engulfed the country after the killing of George Floyd, an […]
News India Racist hate crime against Black African students must end: Amnesty International The Noida police later booked over 300 people and arrested five people in connection with the assault on Nigerian students. Amnesty International India on Wednesday asked the Uttar Pradesh authorities to bring to justice those responsible for recent racist attacks against black […]
Tamale, Ghana – U.S. Special Operations Command Africa concluded Flintlock 24 with closing ceremonies during distinguished visitor days in both host nations of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, May 24, 2024. Approximately 1,300 participants from nearly 30 international and African partner nations amassed during the two-week duration in support of the largest special operations exercise […]
Jim Herrington The Black Keys have abruptly canceled their upcoming North American tour. The 31-date arena trek — which was scheduled to launch Sept. 17 in Tulsa, Okla., and wrap Nov. 12 in Detroit — quietly
Panama Bishop Julio Murray blesses a group of young adult children of clergy who are no longer active in church after they participated in an April 10 panel discussion addressing how churches can effectively reach out to younger people and serve them. The panel discussion was a highlight of the 2024 International Black Clergy Conference, […]