Colombian mercenaries accused of committing war crimes in Sudan were trained in military bases in the United Arab Emirates, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. We speak with @joey_shea, author of the @hrw report.
On this day in 1830, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing Indigenous people who had lived in the southeastern U.S. for centuries to migrate west in brutal and dangerous conditions.
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🚨🔥 JUST IN: 30 years later, three Black men are exonerated after judge overturns 1997 murder convictions‼️😤
Black men are wrongly convicted at a higher rate & are exonerated an astonishing 7 to 8 times more than our white counterparts‼️🤔
Salute to the American who witnessed a ceremony of white supremacists traitors attempting to venerate their long dead, loser confederate ancestors on Memorial Day. A day created to commemorate the Black American soldiers who so ceremoniously handed them the glorious defeat. He acted accordingly, despite the race soldiers inteference. Well done young man.
On this day in 1892, a white mob destroyed Ida B. Wells's newspaper office while she was away and threatened bodily harm if she returned because she challenged the myth of Black criminality.
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It has been 143 days since the U.S. abducted sitting President Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores.
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🚨ICE attacks protesters outside Delaney Hall ICE Prison in Newark, NJ on day 5 of massive prisoner hunger/labor strike. Sources tell us ICE is actively trying to transfer out leaders of hunger strike. Via @JonFarinaPhoto. SUPPORT our ON THE GROUND reporting 🔽
As they kill Black #VotingRights and representation in this country, there are House Negroes who help #JimCrow along.
Nobody Toms like Clarence!
My latest in @thelasentinel.
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Call on the Creator, the Great Spirit, to be with our families. “He will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge.” — Psalm 91:4
Today we grieve. Not because they are gone—
but because they should still be here!
Photo Credit: Mia McKay
#MMIWR#MMIP
BLM Birmingham, @BlackVotersMtr, @splcenter, @ACLU and everyday Alabamians have the statehouse PACKED OUT!
Demanding district maps that protect #VotingRights in light of the special session called after last week’s Supreme Court ruling.
There is no complete national database tracking our missing. Cases are scattered across tribal, state, and federal systems that do not communicate with each other. Families file reports that never make it to federal databases.