Ethnic regimes were largely ignored in the mainstream media of the global North until the early 1990s, even when troubling events, such as genocide in Burundi, were unfolding. It was only with the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and the Rwanda genocide (1994) that it became more than apparent that another wave of ethnic cleansing and ethno-nationalist regimes were unfolding.
In the fantasy of White supremacy, traitors like Jefferson Davis and other Confederates are memorialized for being freedom fighters — the freedom of whites to own black human beings and work them to death — while a woman who risked her life time and again to free enslaved people is simply dismissed. Ignored. Erased.
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the transatlantic slave trade.
This is Part 3 in a Series on Slavery in America.
The addition of Chad took that country’s government by surprise and bewildered analysts of Central Africa.
It is thought some reached the US when the museum bought the private collection of a German anthropologist in the 1920s.
Rwanda will spend 5.5 billion Rwandan francs ($6.5 million). With 6.8 million registered voters, that’s less than a dollar per vote
As in previous years, it is expected that the Government will hand over homes to vulnerable citizens who need shelter.
the “slave trade and the legacy of slavery are the root causes of social and economic inequalities, hatred, fanaticism, racism and prejudice that today continue to affect people of African descent.” –Ambassador Ana Silva Rodriguez Abascal
Corruption has appeared in the land and the sea on account of that which men’s hands have wrought, that He may make them taste a part of that which they have done, so that they may return. I first saw the term “We Charge Genocide” on the cover of a book given to me in a New York City restaurant called “Ararat” off 36th street and 5th Avenue. It was an Armenian restaurant where the owner got to know Minister Louis Farrakhan, his family and staff who dined there from time to time for dinner. It was
After 21 years, 93 cases and $2 billion, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda wound up business at year’s end with one final case. The judges deliberated on an appeal sought by Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, the former minister for women’s development, her son, Arsene Shalom Ntahobali, and four government officials. Their convictions, which they sought to overturn, included genocide, complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity among other major crimes. The Tribunal, however, upheld the convictions although lowering the long sentences for the ex-minister and son for complicity in the deaths of thousands of Tutsis in their home town of Butare. There,