World News in Brief: Another month of extreme heat, Sudan exodus continues into Chad,...
Summarizing the state of the climate, the month ended with extreme heat in the southern hemisphere where it’s summer, while high temperatures atypical of...
Biden’s walk can beat Trump’s talk with the working class, but he needs to...
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Spoiler alert! Donald Trump will be allowed to remain on the ballot this fall.
By Ben Jealous —
One way or another, the...
Dr. William Strickland, scholar and political activist
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By Herb Boyd —
“William Strickland embraced the challenge of the writing of Malcolm’s life and he did so in spite of...
UN report: Credible allegations Ukrainian POWs have been tortured by Russian forces
According to the Monitoring Mission, interviews conducted with 60 recently released Ukrainian POWs painted a harrowing picture of their experiences in Russian captivity.
“Almost every...
World News in Brief: Malnutrition crisis risk grows in Haiti, clashes in DR Congo,...
Findings from the recent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis indicate an alarming 19 per cent increase in the number of children estimated to...
Tennessee Republicans Introducing “Don’t Say Reparations” Legislation
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This push comes right off the heels of MAGA Republicans launching attacks on DEI and efforts to make equality real. Young...
11 months into Sudan war, ‘world’s worst hunger crisis’ looms
The northeast African country is already in the grip of the world's largest displacement crisis, the UN World Food Programme, WFP, noted.
Fighting between the...
Dismay in Addis Ababa as ‘the soul of the city’ is razed for development
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Ethiopia’s push to attract tourism and investment has seen the demolition of a historic district in the capital, with people’s homes...
UN Security Council demands ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza, ending months-long deadlock
This was the Council’s first explicit call for an immediate ceasefire since Israel began a military offensive in the Gaza Strip following last October’s...
World News in Brief: Haiti aid delivery continues, South Sudan violence, pandemic treaty talks...
Rampant gang violence has created a humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean country, whose Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, resigned last week.
UN children’s agency UNICEF reported...
The (Identity) Politics of Reparations
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Can ”reparationist“ be a distinct identity, akin to feminist or abolitionist, a label worn with pride by progressives who believe in...
220,000 Urgently Need Humanitarian Aid After Devastating Cyclone in Northeast Madagascar
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Geneva/Antananarivo, 9 April - An estimated 220,000 people require immediate humanitarian assistance due to the catastrophic impact of tropical cyclone Gamane in...
New $1.4 billion plan to support South Sudanese refugees
Since the start of the conflict in South Sudan over 10 years ago, growing humanitarian needs compounded by dire food shortages, continued insecurity, and...
Letter to CARICOM president in response invitation to meet in Jamaica
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Children of Gaza spread joy for Ramadan, despite the war
While ceasefire talks failed to end the five-month-long conflict that has killed nearly 32,000 Palestinians – most of them women and children – the...
One woman’s battle to push Africa’s space race
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Cameroonian scientist Marie Makuate has been at the forefront of using information harvested by satellites to help save the lives of...
Black Caucus slowly bends arc of justice
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Legislators lay out 2024 reparation package, with more in years to come.
By Robert J. Hansen, Observer —
California’s Legislative Black Caucus on...
Gaza: Starvation claiming a growing number of young lives, warns UN
“The situation is appalling. Every minute, every hour, it is getting worse,” the UN agency for Palestinians, UNWRA, said in a tweet on X,...
Advocates decry what is lost as the teaching of Black history faces growing restraints
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By Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill —
Advocates are sounding the alarm about growing pushes from conservative-led states to downplay the impact...
A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun — By Richard D. Wolff
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By Richard D. Wolff —
By “class system” we mean the basic workplace organizations—the human relationships or “social relations”—that accomplish the production...
Widespread destruction across Khan Younis as Gazans ‘struggle to survive’
“Humanitarians are working hard to support them, but we need security, access and reliable facilitation by Israeli forces, whose responsibilities don’t end when supplies...
Israeli peace activists are more anguished than ever − in a movement that has...
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Secular Jewish groups have historically made up the majority of solidarity and peace groups. But Palestinian citizens and observant Jews are...
World News in Brief: WFP boosts aid in Chad amid Sudan crisis, Ukraine education...
The World Food Programme announced the operation on Tuesday and warned that lifesaving programmes in Chad will stop because of a funding crunch “in...
More casualties in Russia’s war on Ukraine from strike on central city
A Russian missile strike on a multi-storey apartment block in central Ukraine that left three dead and around 40 injured on Tuesday has been...
