It’s Time to Invoke The Responsibility to Protect in Sudan
Genocide looms JUL 26, 2023 By Mark J. Wood, Refugees International When war broke out in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, in April 2023, those of us who know the…
Texas A&M University president resigns following controversy over failed plans to hire journalism professor
Texas A&M University president M. Katherine Banks resigned Thursday amid controversy over the school’s failed attempt to hire a new professor to lead its journalism program. Banks’ decision came after…
Opinion: Another study shows San Diego police disproportionately stop people of color. Address it.
Overall, Black people were more than four times as likely and Latinos were 40 percent more likely to be stopped than White people. The editorial board operates independently from the U-T newsroom…
Sentencing Report Highlights Importance of Transparency
LANSING, MI, July 20, 2023 – The State Court Administrative Office today released “Sentencing in Michigan’s 22nd Circuit Court” – a detailed examination of felony cases sentenced between 2015 and…
Supreme Court dismisses Louisiana’s appeal of ruling that found racial gerrymandering
The high court’s action is a consequence of its recent decision affirming a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. But on Monday, the Supreme Court reversed course, lifting its…
The Navajo Suffered From Nuclear Testing. Oppenheimer Doesn’t Tell Our Story
Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated Oppenheimer comes to the big screen five days after the 44th anniversary of the Church Rock uranium mill spill, when 94 million gallons of radioactive waste poured into the Puerco River,…
South Korea’s Infanticide Problem Highlights Wider Population Struggles
Just outside the South Korean capital of Seoul, two newborn children were found dead in June inside a house freezer, their bodies apparently frozen for years. Their mother, a woman in her…
Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teen lynched in Mississippi
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling…
‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camps on Channel Island finally to be officially investigated
Review could show that thousands more Jews and prisoners of war died on Alderney than previously thought The full horrors of the only Nazi concentration camps to exist on British…
Could private-sector scholarships play a big role in closing racial gaps in higher education?
Colleges and universities are figuring out how to move forward in the wake of last month's Supreme Court decision to end affirmative action. One Minnesota-based organization says private-sector scholarships can…