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Reparations under International Law for Enslavement of African Persons in the Americas and the Caribbean American Society of International Law Source link
Amnesty International USA Recorded 125 Separate Incidents of Police Violence Against Protesters, Medics, Journalists and Legal Observers in 40 States and D.C. During May and June Protests The Report Chronicles the Stories of More Than 50 People Affected by Police Violence as Black Lives Matter Grows Into the Largest Social Movement in U.S. History Today, […]
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a 1975 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law who championed efforts to promote equality during her 30-year career in Congress, died Friday from pancreatic cancer. She was 74. Jackson Lee, who was active in the Black American Law Students Association at the Law School, represented Texas’ Houston-based 18th District, a […]
NEW YORK — Jose Marquez served three years in the U.S. Army and five years in the reserves, but because of convictions for drug crimes, federal judges ordered him deported to the Dominican Republic, the country he left as a child. His lawyer, voice cracking, told Marquez in a New York detention center that he […]
Hundreds of students from Nantucket crossed the stage Friday, wearing caps and gowns to celebrate their graduation. But, before Nantucket High School seniors received their diplomas, one student, who the town deprived of an education, finally got her own. Eunice Ross, an African American teenager who was integral in Massachusetts’ school integration movement in the […]
Irakli Gedenidze/Reuters Parliamentarians enter the parliament by vehicles as police officers stand guard during a protest against a bill on “foreign agents” in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 13, 2024. CNN  — The US State Department is implementing a new visa restriction policy in response to a repressive law and crackdowns on protests in Georgia, Secretary […]
In a continuation of unprecedented attacks against the Biden administration’s pause of bomb shipments to Israel, the House introduced its second bill in just weeks attempting to punish the executive branch and prioritize reelection over U.S. laws, interests and values. The Maintaining Our Ironclad Commitment to Israel’s Security Act, introduced last Friday by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), would […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – Keeping the weekend peace in Memphis. Citizens and lawmakers are putting the call out for other law enforcement agencies to help Memphis Police protect the city. The Tennessee Highway Patrol beefed up traffic enforcement on the interstates and on Poplar and Summer Avenues. Governor Lee was asked if his troopers could […]
By Tom Bateman, State Department Correspondent BBC News 10 May 2024 Updated 11 May 2024 Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The US has grown increasingly concerned over mounting civilian deaths in Gaza. The US says Israel may have used American-supplied weapons in breach of international humanitarian law in some instances during the war in […]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered to Congress on Friday a highly anticipated report on the Israeli military’s operations in Gaza that accused Israeli forces of potentially violating international humanitarian law but did not formally find they had already done so, according to the document’s key findings. The report states that though there are allegations […]