The fuel to my revolutionary optimism
As distant as it may seem, I am only two generations removed from the 1948 Catastrophe of Palestine, where over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land, and thousands were massacred.
Cities reimagine public safety amid calls to #DefundPolice
Lawmakers across the country are proposing policy measures to cut or loosen ties to traditional policing.
‘I cannot be quietly complicit’: Biden official resigns over Gaza assault
"I cannot represent an administration that does not value all human life equally."
Chernobyl Could Become World’s Largest Solar Farm
If construction is approved, Chernobyl's solar farm will hold the title of "World's Largest Solar Plant" before Dubai's massive concentrated solar plant catches up to it.
Former Fort Worth cop arrested and charged with murdering innocent woman at home
Under investigation for fatally shooting an innocent woman at her residence, a Fort Worth police officer resigned Monday and was charged with...
500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited.
USA downgraded as civil liberties deteriorate across the Americas
While recent brutality against protests for racial justice is concerning, the decline in basic freedoms in the USA began before this crackdown.
Taliban extends ban on Afghan women working to include UN’s mission in the country
The extended ban comes after the Taliban, who regained power in 2021, placed a ban on most NGO workers in December 2022.
How African Americans fought for & won birthright citizenship 150 years before Trump tried...
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
‘A devastating failure’: Eviction ban expires as House goes on vacation and Biden refuses...
"We cannot be abandoning the up to 11 million Americans that are in need, particularly when emergency rental assistance—the $46 billion that we authorized—has not gotten out."