Both the late singer and his close friend Martin Luther King Jr. saw their civil rights advocacy as the cutting edge of a still broader struggle for equality, writes Sam Pizzigatti.
One day after the Rana Plaza collapse in April 2013, Taslima Akhter photographed the ruins in what she saw as an act of remembrance, writes Vijay Prashad.
During the 1999 conflict over Kosovo, the KLA was seen by the U.K. as terrorist, but was covertly and overtly supported by the Labour government, Mark Curtis reports.
The Oman-mediated peace talks to end the nine-year-old war in Yemen received a boost after China brokered a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia last month, Peoples Dispatch reports.
This is a fight to maintain and protect the status quo for Israelis, not Palestinians who have been denied all basic democratic rights under Israel since 1948, writes Nour.
This talk was given ahead of Easter Sunday on Holy Thursday at a protest at Princeton Theological Seminary demanding the removal of hedge fund billionaire Michael Fisch as chair of the seminary’s trustee board.
Azerbaijan presented the resolution on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries earlier this week, People’s Dispatch reports. It passed with 33 votes in favor and was predictably rejected by the U.S. and its allies.