Feb 24, 2019 | Black Lives Matter, Community, FORusa Feature, FORusa Publications, Racial, Reparations
“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.” –El Hajj Malik El Shabazz...
Feb 22, 2019 | FORusa Feature, FORusa Publications, Indigenous Peoples, Racial, Reparations
There is a crisis going on at our borders. Children are separated from their families. Mothers are separated from their babies. Many Americans are beginning to take notice and cry out, but the problem is not getting resolved. Democrats are blaming Republicans who in...
Feb 21, 2019 | Beloved Community, Black Lives Matter, Campaigns, Civil Rights, FORusa Feature, FORusa Publications, Reparations
Over the past two years, the article that has come up most frequently in my Facebook feed describes how a report submitted to the U.N. Council on Human Rights has argued that the United States should begin “reparatory justice” processes concerning the “current and...
Oct 26, 2018 | FORusa Feature, General, Human Rights
Nadia Murad, now a United Nation Goodwill Ambassador on Trafficking of Persons, is the co-laureate of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2014, when she was 21, she and her neighbors in a predominantly Yazidi village in the Simjar mountainous area of Iraq were attacked by...