Baltimore, Oct. 1, 2014….A major conference bringing together leaders in the fields of health care, law and social services will kick off a national campaign against human trafficking which has been described as a “horrible form of modern day slavery.”
By Herb Boyd Special to IBW Many of us remember Dowoti Desir when she was the Executive Director of the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural…
Has this President’s life been devalued in a way that could even have penetrated the thinking of those who have sworn to protect him?
CHICAGO, IL–On Tuesday, September 23rd, representatives from 25 organizations, armed with the Durban Declaration and Program of Action, met on the corner of 47th Street and Wentworth Avenue as Reparations Enforcers to work to collect $900 million from Norfolk Southern.
President Obama has had a sterling record of winning elections but not an impressive record in getting legislation through the United States Congress.
Each year, around this time, Caribbean leaders join other presidents and prime ministers in convening in New York to participate in the annual United Nations General Debate. And each…
“Instead of lynchings, we now enjoy the spectacle of the fraternal-order-of-police executing blacks and browns as sport.”
President Barack Obama listens while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a statement to the press after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House Sept. 30, 2014.
The principle of reparations is as old as warfare and humankind and is well established in international law. The principle requires the party who has caused injuries to another to redress the damage caused either through monetary means, rehabilitation or material labour. The principle has been generally enforced by the victor on the vanquished and has become the core of the peace settlement. Its punitive streak has been evident quite early, in 202bc, when Rome exacted reparations from a defeated Carthage, an African city state, at the end of the second Punic war. It was at Versailles (1919), however, that a defeated Germany was constrained to yield to exacting demands, the trenchant and prescient criticisms of which would launch J M Keynes into international acclaim. Seeming to be magnanimous, the succeeding generation would believe that it was rather generous, again with a defeated Germany, at the peace constructed at Yalta, Potsdam and Paris (1946).
From a new Brookings Institute analysis by fellow Jonathan Rothwell released yesterday.
Baltimore, Oct. 1, 2014….A major conference bringing together leaders in the fields of health care, law and social services will kick off a national campaign against human trafficking which has been described as a “horrible form of modern day slavery.”
The summer of 2014 was a summer of protest: African-Americans took to the streets with a simple but ambitious demand: “Treat us like human beings.”
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