Category: War
-
The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Trump’s portrayal of NATO in crisis carries risks for alliance “President Trump has not taken damaging actions against NATO, but his words are damaging,” said Adam Thomson, a former British ambassador to NATO and now director of the European Leadership Network think-tank in London. #Trump #NATO #UKTrumpVisit women honoured with #BecauseOfHerWeCan campaign Incredible, groundbreaking Indigenous Australian…
-
The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Protester arrested after climbing base of Statue of Liberty She wasn’t the only protester arrested at the Statue of Liberty on Wednesday. Earlier that afternoon, seven people were apprehended for holding a banner that read “ABOLISH ICE” off the base below the statue, which is technically called Fort Hood. #Protest#FourthofJuly#NYC Bavaria: Affluent, Picturesque — and…
-
The Week In Stories Around the Globe

Nikki Haley: ‘It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America’ U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley criticized the report for critiquing the United States’ treatment of its poor, arguing that the United Nations should instead focus on poverty in developing countries such as Burundi and Congo. The U.N. report also faulted the Trump administration for pursuing…
-
The Week in Stories Around the Globe

During Roundtable, Trump Calls Some Unauthorized Immigrants ‘Animals’ President Trump, speaking on Wednesday to a gathering of officials from California who oppose the state’s “sanctuary” law, compared some people who illegally cross the U.S. southern border to “animals.” #TrumpsAmerica#Immigration#Mexico#HumanRights ‘He was my whole world’: Palestinians mourn killing of loved ones “He was the spirit of…
-
The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Confederate flag-bearing trucks park outside Michigan school “If the motive was to intimidate, that was wrong,” he said. “Trying to intimidate by race, color, creed, political belief, or religious belief is wrong. We have to respond to that in the right way so that the right message gets out.” #Michigan#MidWest#Confederate#Bigots The Palestinian women at the forefront…
-
The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Trump is reinvigorating the American left We don’t yet know what the effects of all this activism will be in the long run. But I have zero doubt that in years to come there will be Democratic mayors, governors, senators and maybe even a president or two who will say, “Why did I get involved…
-
The Week in Stories Around the Globe

In Canada, You Can Now Use Bills With a Black Woman on Them While Americans are still waiting to deposit Harriet Tubmans in their bank accounts, our neighbors to the north have just unveiled a new $10 bill that features their own civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond. #Canada#CivilRights#BlackGirlMagic#ViolaDesmond UN moves towards recognising human right…
-
The Week in Stories Around the Globe

‘Black Panther’ Is Not the Movie We Deserve “Black Panther’s villain wants to liberate black people everywhere, which in the Marvel Universe earns him death. That’s racist. #BlackPanther#HonestMovieReview#BlackLiberation Iran plane crash wreckage found on mountainside The crashed plane was 25 years old, Iran’s civil aviation organisation said. Sixty passengers, two security guards, two flight attendants…
Activism, Art, Comics, Culture, equality, Equity, film, History, International, Nature, Politics, Poverty, race, Science, Social Media, Technology, Television, War -
The Week in Stories Around the Globe

‘We’ve seen the worst of humanity,’ Florida school official says as 17 killed in campus shooting A former student who had been expelled for disciplinary reasons opened fire at a South Florida high school Wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding at least a dozen others, authorities said. The suspected gunman, Nikolas Cruz, 19, was quickly…
-
The Evolved Man of the Week: Doris Miller

Welcome to the “Black History Month” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week in February, we will highlight a historical black male figure who embodied what it meant to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s…