Category: History
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Words won’t save Gaza – The West must stop enabling Israel’s war Firstly, the UK and its allies must immediately suspend all arms exports and related components to Israel. Current UK measures – suspending just 10 percent of arms licences – are grotesquely inadequate. If the foreign secretary can describe the atrocities being committed by…
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The Rent’s Too Damn High
As a child, I would sit and imagine what life would be like as an adult. For example, things my imagined older self would buy and faraway places I’d travel when I had the funds. All the places I saw on the Discovery Channel and PBS as a kid I wanted to go as an…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison, where US criminals could be held El Salvador’s president has offered to incarcerate criminals deported from the U.S. at The Terrorism Confinement Center, a mega-prison intentionally isolated from urban areas that can accommodate up to 40,000 inmates. #ElSalvador #MegaPrison #TheTrumpadministration #ThisIsAmerica South Sudan to accept man deported from US in bid…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
No Other Land Director Hamdan Ballal Injured and Missing Following Attack “There were dozens of settlers together with the Israeli soldiers and they were threatening us with weapons. The police were there from the beginning and did not intervene. While the soldiers were pointing their weapons at us, the settlers started attacking the houses of the…
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CyberPunk 2025 is Dumb AF
The American dystopian is unique to the United States of America. This nation is an innovator of the sci-fi genre known as cyberpunk. For good reason, too, its origins as a nation are violent and grim. Its future seems to be no different. Wikipedia defines cyberpunk it as such: “Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
CDC says it is monitoring mysterious deadly disease in Congo At least 1,318 people have exhibited symptoms of the mysterious malady and 53 people have died from the disease as of Feb. 25, the World Health Organization said Tuesday in its most recent update. On Feb. 27, the WHO reported that 60 people had died…
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The Evolved Woman of the Week: Yuri Kochiyama
Welcome to the Evolving Folks Project’s “Evolved Woman of the Week” profile. Each week, we will highlight an individual who embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to Japanese American civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama (1921–2014).…
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Black America Time to Get on Code
Black self-defense in the age of Trump 2.0 era Yes, Donald Trump has reached the presidency, a man with thirty-four convictions. A man who tried to overturn the 2020 election result by siccing his cultists on the U.S. Capitol. The United States of America is a nation founded on African slavery and the Native American…
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The Evolved Woman of the Week: Elaine Brown
Welcome to the Evolving Folks Project’s “Evolved Woman of the Week” Black History Month Edition profile. Each week, we will highlight an individual who embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the Philadelphia native, activist,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The Power of Black Self-Defense in Lincoln Heights Black people in a small city showed the rest of the country the importance of organizing. They acted fearlessly in the face of open racism. They didn’t consult with elected officials or public intellectuals. They knew they were in danger if they didn’t act of their volition.…
