TERNTON, Canada – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Governor General Mary Simon and Indigenous leaders gathered together to commemorate the first anniversary of the finding of unmarked graves at a former Indian Residential School site. While Trudeau made his way through the crowd in the late evening, there were also chants of ̶...
ISTANBUL – China’s foreign minister in a meeting with UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called for refraining from “politicizing human rights.” Wang Yi met with the visiting UN high commissioner for human rights in Guangzhou, northwest of Hong Kong. Bachelet is on a week-long visit from May 23-28 to China where sh...
President Biden is right. “For God’s Sake,” and our children’s sake, we must do something about gun violence in America. And we must do it now. Back in 1996, after a few years of mass shootings, Australia experienced a mass slaughter on a scale like we saw yesterday in Texas. Their Supreme Court hadn’t ruled that Australian politicians [&helli...
A group of faith leaders in Georgia on Wednesday asked the U.S. Justice Department to send federal election monitors to the state to help ensure that Black voters are able to cast their ballots in November’s midterm elections. In a letter to DOJ officials released in the wake of the state’s primary elections Tuesday, the faith [&he...
In the wake of the harrowing massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, progressive stalwart Nina Turner focused her ire on the right-wing lawmakers who take money from the National Rifle Association and argued that solutions to gun violence and other injustices plaguing the U.S. will continue to prove elusive until the ro...
Republican state Rep. Randy Fine of Florida on Wednesday openly threatened President Joe Biden in the wake of the deadly massacre in Uvalde, Texas by saying the man who “claims to be our president” tries to mobilize the political will to impose gun control restrictions in the United States. “I have news for the embarrassment ...
U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to find a way to tighten gun ownership laws after Tuesday’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that left at least 21 dead. The shooter killed 19 schoolchildren and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde YOU VAL DEE, Department of Public Safety Sgt. Erick Estrada told CNN. […]
Among Ruwa Romman’s goals for her first elected office run is showing Muslims “we have a place in this world.” The 29-year-old community organizer is nearly six months into a grassroots effort to represent Georgia’s 97th House district as a Democrat. If elected, she would be the first Muslim woman elected to the Georgia State […]...
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a case challenging the legality of the 2019 repeal of the religious exemption from vaccine mandates to attend school. The case was filed by 55 New York families and the non-profit Children’s Health Defense. Lead counsel Michael Sussman said attorneys have argued the case for almost three […]...
On Tuesday, Republican voters delivered a stark repudiation of the former U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen from him. They backed Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp for re-election by a huge margin over a candidate backed by Trump. Trump used much of his political capital hand-picking David Perdue to run […]...