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When I write a column, I try to focus on an idea or event that is relevant to Black America. I have no scarcity of recent events to choose from; the release of the preliminary 2020 census data and the Senate passing a bipartisan trillion-dollar plus infrastructure bill. Both have profound implications for Black America. […]
International organisations including the UN and African Union, politicians and people from African countries and Caribbeans are outraged over US President Donald Trump‘s latest racist remarks. The president criticised immigration to his country from El Salvador, Haiti and the African continent, by calling the group “shithole countries”, according to the US media. “Why are we […]
International organisations including the UN and African Union, politicians and people from African countries and Caribbeans are outraged over US President Donald Trump‘s latest racist remarks. The president criticised immigration to his country from El Salvador, Haiti and the African continent, by calling the group “shithole countries”, according to the US media. “Why are we […]
Priyanka Chopra Jonas Prime Video Netflix and Amazon are back on top, again. In the first quarter of 2024, Netflix and Amazon have reasserted their dominance in original content commissioning for streaming platforms, according to a new report by Ampere Analysis. The two streaming giants accounted for more than half (53 percent) of all global […]
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 […]