By Viviane Faver The new coronavirus is spreading into African rural areas, where the public health system creaks: ICU units are full and turning patients away. After governments eased lockdowns, the continent registered 10,000-12,000 cases daily. After measures were softened, Kenya recorded nearly 90,000 infections […]
By Viviane Faver During the year 2020, the Trump administration was quick to put ten prisoners to death, more American civilians in a year than all states combined. The wave of executions surpassed historical norms and was contrary to the decline in the practice […]
By Viviane Faver This weekend, pro-Trump protesters tore and burned Black Lives Matter banners at two African American churches in D.C., according to the Washington Post. According to the organization Black Lives Matter, the group had targeted the Ashbury United Methodist Church, which has […]
By Viviane Faver Aurora, Colorado lawyers, police officers, and doctors involved in Elijah McClain’s death filed several motions with the US Colorado District Court last week to dismiss a lawsuit filed by McClain’s family in August. The lawsuit alleges that discriminatory […]
By Viviane Faver The new administration must dismantle Trump’s deportation machine and end family detention and separation. Only in Pennsylvania, more than twenty-three black and Latino families, including 28 children, face hasty deportations. Due to the violence from which they fled, and are likely to […]
By Viviane Faver The superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, retired Army Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, stepped down days after the Washington Post documented “relentless racism” suffered by the Black cadets at the state-sponsored school. The retired four-star general wrote in a public resignation […]
The Brazilian government fails to act, but solidarity and voluntary work are doing everything to save the Brazilian forest Photo credit: Marcele Becker By Viviane Faver The Pantanal forest is the largest continental wetland in the world. Formed by flood plains, it […]
By Viviane Faver A black man was trialed and convicted – without concrete evidence – in a small town in North Carolina in the early 1970s by an all-white jury for the rape of a prominent local white executive’s white wife. This is the story […]
By Viviane Faver The Greek government faces criticism accused of pushing migrant boats back into the Mediterranean Sea, effectively condemning many on board to death or inhumane conditions. According to The New York Times, Greek authorities have quietly forced the departure of more […]
(Photo credits: Peter Cooper) by Viviane Faver Amid so many protests in New York, one has been standing out and gaining more and more followers and strength in the form of community on the wheels – The Street Riders New York City. Like other protest […]
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