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Brazil medics seek ICC probe of Bolsonaro gov’t COVID-19 response
Brazil’s president is being taken to court over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. A coalition of health professionals wants the International Criminal Court to investigate Jair Bolsonaro’s government for crimes against humanity and genocide. Al Jazeera’s Monica Yanakiev reports … Continue reading
Valley of the Fallen – 99% Invisible
About an hour northwest of Madrid, an enormous stone crucifix rises 500 feet out of a rocky mountaintop. It’s so big you can see it from miles away. Beneath the cross, there’s a sprawling Benedictine monastery and a basilica carved … Continue reading
A true story of slavery and restitution in America
Caleb McDaniel’ book “Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America” won the 2020 Pulitzer history prize, recounting the story of former slave Henrietta Wood. Henrietta Wood was freed from slavery in 1848 only to … Continue reading
Black Voices Speak Their Truth
Inspired by the storytellers, the conversations and the art that have arisen from the Black Lives Matter movement, we know that there are a lot more stories that need to be told, and a lot more listening that needs to … Continue reading
Brazil’s President Says He Has Recovered from Covid-19 — DIGI WORLD BLOG
[ad_1] Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced that he had tested negative for covid-19 on Saturday.Photo: Andressa Anholete (Getty Images) Infamous coronavirus skeptic Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, triumphantly declared on Saturday that he had recovered from covid-19, the disease … Continue reading
Man Predicts Future of the World – Streets of London – Episode 19
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BONUS: The Kerner Commission : Planet Money
In 1967, President Johnson created a commission to investigate racial unrest in America. But, the answer they came up with was not the answer he was hoping for. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. Source: BONUS: The Kerner Commission … Continue reading
60 Years and Still Short Film
60years.carrd.co This table top, mixed media short film covers six decades of race and injustice in America through ten incidents of Black lives taken by police. Some of these incidents sparked national media coverage and furious uprisings across the country, … Continue reading
HISTORY OF IDEAS – Love
We think of love as merely spontaneous – but it is in fact an emotion acutely shaped by its history. Understanding more about the course of love in time can help us think through our options in the present.
Who was Olive Morris? Google Doodle celebrates 68th birthday of co-founder of the British Black Panthers
Adam Maidment 26/06/2020 Google likes to change its logo to acknowledge holidays, events and notable figures on the search engine’s homepage. Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Ella Fitzgerald, and Scottish scientist Mary Somerville have all been immortalised in this way. … Continue reading
The shadow of genocide haunts Bolsonaro – 08/07/2020 – Opinion – Folha
The president has done his part of the promise to the indigenous Conrado Hübner Mendes The political history of the 20th century bequeathed two words that express radical and absolute evil: fascism and genocide. In the index of political … Continue reading
Leona Tate Turns School She Helped Desegregate Into Center for Equality
By Kelly Richman-Abdou on July 6, 2020 “The history of the school desegregation in New Orleans has not been told correctly…it’s time people learned the truth.” On May 17, 1954, the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court … Continue reading
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