Black Brazilians protest racism, police violence
Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo, BrazilReuters Black Brazilians demonstrated in the country’s two largest cities on Thursday to protest against racism and police violence toward their communities in a local version of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with some accusing the country’s president of genocide. They were also protesting what they called […]
Rio de Janeiro drug shootout death toll rises to 28; judge sees signs of “arbitrary execution”
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilReuters The death toll from a police raid on a drug gang in a poor Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood on Thursday has risen to 28, civil police said on Friday, the deadliest operation ever carried out by the security forces in the Brazilian city. The bodies of three more victims removed from […]
Two killed in Mandalay city in bloodiest day of Myanmar protests
Reuters Two people were killed in Myanmar’s second city Mandalay on Saturday when police and soldiers fired to disperse protests against a 1st February military coup, emergency workers said, the bloodiest day in more than two weeks of demonstrations. Protesters took to the streets in cities and towns across Myanmar with members of ethnic minorities, […]
At the funeral of another Black man shot dead by police in the US, Rev Al Sharpton says firing the officer is not enough
Columbus, Ohio, USAP As light snow fell around the Ohio church Tuesday morning, Andre Hill’s family, friends and strangers angry about his death – clad in their Sunday best and Black Lives Matter masks – walked in to honour his life. Inside the church in Columbus, a photo of Hill, 47, surrounded by the faces […]
Amid escalated police presence, Californian Episcopal church offers sanctuary to protesters
Pasadena, USRNS Rev Mike Kinman, rector at All Saints Episcopal Church, got the call just before midnight on Thursday, 21st August. It was his son letting him know police had blocked off streets near Pasadena City Hall and All Saints Church. Officers were standing in a line on the City Hall steps, in riot gear, […]
LIFESTORY: TO BOTHAM JEAN’S PARENTS, FATAL SHOOTING STILL FEELS “AS IF IT JUST HAPPENED”
In an article published by Religion News Service, BOBBY ROSS, Jr, speaks to Bertrum and Allison Jean about their emotional journey as racial unity summit and mission trip pay tribute to their slain son Botham…