For Black Suffragists, the Lens Was a Mighty Sword
On the last day of his life, Frederick Douglass attended a meeting of the National Women’s Council. The prodigious orator and abolitionist came home to Cedar Hill, his hilltop house…
A worker cleans up broken window glass at a store on Chicago's Michigan Ave., Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, after hundreds of people converged early Monday on the Magnificent Mile, Chicago’s most famous shopping district, breaking windows, looting stores and clashing with the police. The Chicago police superintendent said that the chaos that unfolded downtown had apparently grown out of a shooting that took place on the South Side on Sunday afternoon. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times)
Are racial attitudes really changing? Some Black activists are skeptical
CHICAGO — The outdated guard of this city’s Roseland neighborhood, a neighborhood on the South Side well-known for molding a younger Barack Obama and notorious for its present blight, has…
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivers the opening address at the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 25, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
UN Chief: Do everything possible for youth globally
This year’s Youth Day occurs as the lives and aspirations of young people continue to be upended by the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN chief said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has…
‘Ebola outbreak in DR Congo grave concern’
WHO Africa says outbreak further complicated by coronavirus pandemic YAOUNDE, Cameroon Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Equateur province continues to be of grave concern, the World Health…
“Ready To Give Support To India’s Most Vulnerable”: UN On Floods
At least 5.4 million people have been affected by severe flooding, with 11,000 households displaced and 135 people killed, the United Nations said. United Nations: The United Nations stands ready…
Outcry in Somalia as new bill would allow child marriage
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An outcry is rising in Somalia as parliament considers a bill that would allow child marriage once a girl’s sexual organs mature and would allow forced marriage…
Protests in Belarus continue despite challenger’s departure
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The top opposition candidate in Belarus’ presidential election left for Lithuania Tuesday but anti-government demonstrators still turned out for a third straight night to protest the…
UN experts arrive in Mauritius to assist in oil spill
A team of United Nations experts arrived on the island nation of Mauritius on Tuesday to aid efforts to prevent an oil spill from further damaging its pristine environment. Salvage…
Letter to a Pig (2020)
https://vimeo.com/717095348 A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and falls into a strange dream,…
“Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor”: The power and the peril of a catchphrase
After all-too-common acts of police brutality against Black women, the hashtag #SayHerName” now peppers social media timelines. The phrase, codified in 2014 through Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Say Her Name campaign, serves…
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