Zwein during one of the 2019 protests in Beirut. Credit: Victoria El-Khoury Zwein
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Mar 12 2021 (IPS) - The fight for equality around the globe has taken a few steps forward in some countries which provides a glimmer of hope for future generations for increased female participation and representation. However, that particular fight is taking new shapes and forms in multiple corners of the world, where women are still persecuted, silenced, threatened, killed, harassed, and stripped off their basic human rights on a daily basis. The question today is, when will the world become a safer place for women and girls?
The #BLM Movement is Officially a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee!
The movement for racial justice and equality #Black Lives Matter which was revived May last year by the violent death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of white police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian parliamentarian,
Petter Eide.
Founded in 2013 in the United State by three queer African-American women (
Alicia Garza,
Patrisse Cullors and
Opal Tometi) the movement has taken on an even more powerful global force seeing a collective Afro consciousness awakening worldwide as it pertains to the rights and human dignities of black people of African descent in every sphere of society.
What Trump Shares With the âLost Causeâ of the Confederacy
It is hard to miss the parallels between now and then of rewriting history and campaigns of disinformation.
By Karen L. Cox
Dr. Cox is the author of the forthcoming book âNo Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice.â
Jan. 8, 2021
Credit.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Wednesday morning, President Trump urged a crowd of supporters who showed up in Washington, D.C., to âwalk down to the Capitolâ and protest the certification of the election taking place nearby on Pennsylvania Avenue. A few hours later, he stood in the White House Rose Garden to deliver a different message after members of this same group â who carried flags bearing his name â stormed the Capitol, brawled with Capitol Police and breached both chambers of Congress. Mr. Trump repeated false claims about election fraud but told them: âYou have to go home now. We have to have peac
On Wednesday, supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol in an unprecedented effort to stop the counting of votes for the electoral college. Where do we go from here? We sit down with reporters and analysts and get their reaction.
Our reading list in 2020, like the rest of our lives, was colored by the triple whammy of pandemic, racial justice protests and the presidential election. But given the unpredictability of these 12 jam-packed, crisis-filled months, how did the thinkers, researchers, preachers and their publishers of the books we clung to know to furnish us with such timely analyses? As several of the authors of the most interesting books have noted, the answer is all too grim: In many cases, we only reaped what we had long sown.
But among our favorite histories, travelogs and memoirs below, there are as many solutions as there are jeremiads, and books as fun as they are enlightening.