South Africa: Power cuts widen digital divide and wealth gaps
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how rolling electricity blackouts mean South Africans unable to afford data and generators struggle to study or work online…
Excavation of graves begins at site of colonial Black church in US
United StatesAP Archaeologists in the US state of Virginia began excavating three suspected graves at the original site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches on Monday, commencing a monthslong effort to learn who was buried there and how they lived. The First Baptist Church was formed in 1776 by free and enslaved Black […]
Essay: Digital labour platforms subject global South workers to “algorithmic insecurity”
Researchers HANNAH J DAWSON and RUTH CASTEL-BRANCO, of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, look – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the issue of “algorithmic insecurity”…
Threat of prosecution hangs “forever” over Ukraine war crimes perpetrators – EU
Brussels, BelgiumReuters It may take years to hold perpetrators of war crimes in Ukraine accountable, the European Union’s top justice official told Reuters on Monday, but those responsible should know the threat of prosecution will hang over them “forever”. EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders spoke as the United States and more than 40 other countries […]
This Life: Removing the mud
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects, while cleaning up her bike in the aftermath of recent floods, on how Jesus cleanses us…
More than 100 Florida churches file lawsuit to leave United Methodist Church
United StatesRNS More than 100 churches are suing the Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church to immediately disaffiliate from the denomination. The lawsuit comes amid a slow-moving schism in the United Methodist Church largely over the ordination and marriage of its LGBTQ members. And, according to the head of a new, theologically conservative […]