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Marc Lamont Hill champions Palestinian rights following in footsteps of SNCC

Developments in East Jerusalem reveal it has been turned into a war zone. According to TRT World, “Israeli police have been unleashing violence on...

Zimbabwe unveils statue honoring anti-colonialist heroine

HARARE, Zimbabwe—Zimbabwe’s president on May 25 unveiled a towering bronze statue in the center of Harare, the capital, honoring a 19th-century Black anti-colonialist heroine who...

Thousands in path of erupting volcano in Congo flee to Rwanda

(GIN)—An erupting mountain of fiery red flames from one of the world’s most active and dangerous volcanoes shook residents of the city of Goma,...

Middle East ‘ceasefire’ reached, but for how long amid Palestinian suffering?

After 11 straight days of missile bombardment on the occupied West Bank and Gaza by the Zionist State of Israel a ‘unilateral’ cease-fire was...

Internal emails reveal WHO knew of sex abuse claims in Congo

BENI, Congo—When Shekinah was working as a nurse’s aide in northeastern Congo in January 2019, she said, a World Health Organization doctor offered her...

Myanmar coup: ‘No sign’ of end to brutal crackdown on all fronts

One hundred days since the Myanmar military seized power, the “brutal” repression of protesters has continued, despite all international efforts to end the violence,...

UK act of parliament authorizes torture and rape under ‘certain circumstances’

Proposed legislation giving police sweeping powers to decide whether protests are justified, the power to impose start and finish times and even the right...

There will be blood: America is coming out of the Middle East

Bloody battles have exploded again with Israeli atrocities against Palestinians, but where will this end? The bombings, killings, protests and slaughter of outmatched Palestinians is...

Indigenous and Afro Latino victims and unrest in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia—Forty-two people have died during anti-government protests that began two weeks earlier amid discontent fueled by growing poverty and inequality during the pandemic,...

ISIL crimes against Yazidis constitute genocide, UN investigation team finds

A UN team investigating ISIL, of ISIS, atrocities in Iraq has established “clear and convincing evidence” of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority, the...