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Nov 29, 2022 · Based on fifteen years of research, answers to these questions and more are uncovered in Fighting for Justice, bestselling author and noted historian Mark Shaw’s improbable journey to exposing cover-ups of the JFK assassination while proving Marilyn Monroe and Kilgallen were murdered.
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Australia had some of the largest protests outside the U.S. after George Floyd’s murder. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in cities across the country during June. Alongside Black Lives Matter signs, protesters carried placards with the names of some of the 476 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who, according to the Guard...
News of George Floyd’s murder reached a Brazil already deep in crisis over racial justice following the 2018 election of President Jair Bolsonaro. The far-right leader has compared Black people—who make up 56% of the country’s population—to cattle, celebrated police brutality in mostly Black favelas and tried to strip Indigenous communities of pro...
In July 2016, 24-year-old Adama Traoré was out walking, looking forward to celebrating his birthday later in the evening, when police apprehended him. Traoré, who was Malian-French, later died in police custody; his last words were reportedly “I can’t breathe,” the same as George Floyd’s final words. Protests erupted in Paris after Traoré’s death—a...
The Black Lives Matter movement prompted a reckoning in India over colorism, discrimination against those with darker skin tones, which has deep roots in India’s caste system and colonial history. Last summer, after Priyanka Chopra joined Indian stars in voicing support for BLM, social media users pointed out she and many others had promoted whiten...
Black Lives Matter marches held across Japan in June 2020 were both a gesture of solidarity with protesters in the U.S. and a call to confront racism at home. Much of the discussion in Japan has centered on discrimination toward biracial individuals, following multiple high-profile incidents of prejudice. In 2019, a Japanese comedy duo said tennis ...
Elections in New Zealand in October 2020 brought to power one of the world’s most diverse governments. The first parliamentarians of African, Latin American and Sri Lankan heritage were voted in; almost half of the seats went to women; more than 10% of lawmakers identify as LGBTQ. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Cabinet picks were no less diverse...
After a video emerged in October that appeared to show officers from Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) killing a young man, protests erupted, led by young Nigerians who were angry with their government for ignoring corruption and extrajudicial killings. (Police initially denied responsibility.) The outcry went global when the military sho...
In June, Black Lives Matter protesters in the U.K. drew worldwide attention when they tore down a statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston and threw it into the harbor of Bristol in southwest England. But long before June, campaigners, activists and historians were interrogating the U.K.’s imperial past, and its deep implications for the...
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Dec 16, 2021 · What 2021 taught us about the fight for racial justice. By Brandon Tensley, CNN. Published Dec. 16, 2021. We witnessed the destructive power of anger and resentment this year. Brandishing...
Founded in 1991, the Institute for Justice (IJ) is a nonprofit, public interest law firm. The nation's only libertarian, civil liberties, public interest law firm. IJ litigates in state and federal courts around the country on behalf of our most fundamental rights, including private property, economic liberty, free speech and educational choice.
- The Rev. William J. Barber II. Speaking up for the poor. The newsmaking actions of Rev. William J. Barber II are founded on the idea that being a person of faith means fighting for justice—whether by working beside a conservative mayor to protest the closing of rural hospitals or by calling for an NAACP boycott of the state in response to the legislature’s actions… —Mary C. Curtis.
- Angela Doyinsola Aina. Empowering black mothers. The U.S. spends much more on health care than any other developed country does, and yet women in the U.S. are dying of -pregnancy-related causes more than they used to and more than in other developed nations.
- Greg Asbed, Lucas Benitez and Laura Germino. Justice for farmworkers. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) began in the 1990s as a collection of Florida-based farmworkers organizing to fight long-standing labor abuses.
- Dina Bakst. Helping working women. For many American women, especially low-wage workers in physically demanding fields, having kids means jeopardizing their jobs—so much so that they may be forced to choose between a paycheck and a healthy pregnancy.
Feb 17, 2023 · 1. Hilarie Burton Morgan, Actor & Social Justice Advocate. Nominated by Nicole N., USA. “Hilarie uses her platform to advocate for families who are involved in murder cases in small towns, where justice has not been fully served. She brought attention to my former student’s murder and uses her voice to fight for his family.
Dec 6, 2022 · Mark Shaw, J.D. ’72, is a former criminal defense attorney and legal analyst who has written more than 25 books, including five on the JFK assassination. His latest book, “Fighting for Justice,” explores the deaths of JFK, Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen.
