A leading reparations activist says there is merit in pursuing a variety of legal strategies that might convince U.S. courts that Black people deserve damages for past treatment in the United States. However, Kamm Howard, of the legislative commission of NCOBRA, the national Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, doesnât believe there is anything ânovelâ about the proposal by Dr. Jahi Issa and Reggie Mabry, that reparations activists recognize that slavery was legal in the U.S., and adjust their legal strategy, according. âSlavery was never legal under international norms,â said Howard. âOnly a small number of nations in Europe colluded together and created some rules among themselves on how to engage in these international crimes. Those were rules amongst criminals.â
Challenges to Zionism in the late 1960s and 1970s sparked an effort to redefine antisemitism focused on defending Israel while attacking the political Left. This resulted in the IHRA definition andâŚ
The detention facility appears to be the one that was previously targeted by the US-backed Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
As the Dominican Republic escalates its brutal crackdown on Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent, Red Malunga condemns the racist policies fueling systemic violence and human rightsâŚ
For two decades, draconian 1996 immigration laws have torn families apartâjailing long-term residents over minor offenses, fast-tracking deportations of asylum seekers, and fueling the cruel machineâŚ
Trumpâs brutality is just the latest flare-up of a bipartisan imperial evilâone that funds genocide in Gaza, war in Ukraine, and repression at home while both parties serve the same billionaire classâŚ
