Botswana has officially removed colonial-era laws that criminalized same-sex relations from their Penal Code.
The High Court first ruled these laws unconstitutional in 2019, and the Court of Appeal upheld the decision in 2021.
BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The three countries voting against it?
🇺🇸 USA
🇮🇱Israel
🇦🇷 Argentina
Nearly all of Europe abstained.
Shyyell Diamond Sanchez-McCray, a Black transgender activist and drag performer, has tragically been murdered in her home town of Petersburg, Virginia.
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