Essay: Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too
As the US marks Juneteenth, KRIS MANJAPRA, author of ‘Black Ghost of Empire’, writes – in an article first published on The Conversation, looks the history of the day…
Lifestory: Syrian refugee brings the taste of home to Gaza
As the UN”s World Refugee Day is marked around the globe on 20th June, NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, of Reuters, reports on how Syrian refugee Anas Qaterji has made a life for himself in Gaza…
Church shooting survivor: Gunman “disengaged”, sat alone
United StatesAP The 70-year-old suspected gunman in a shooting that killed three people at an Alabama church sat by himself drinking liquor, rejecting offers to join the others gathered at the potluck dinner, before gunfire shattered the peace of the evening, a survivor recalled. “It felt like he was disengaged,” Susan Sallin, 73, said. Sallin […]
Updated: Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president
Updated: 12.25pm (AEST)Bogata/Bucaramanga, Colombia Reuters Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia’s presidency on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the country’s history. Petro beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez with an unexpectedly wide margin of some 719,975 votes. The […]