Day: April 23, 2024

William Strickland, civil rights activist and friend of Malcom X, dead at 87

12:08 am April 23, 2024

William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist and supporter of the Black Power movement who worked with Malcom X and other prominent leaders in the 1960s, has died. He was 87. Strickland, whose death April 10 was confirmed by a relative, first became active in civil rights as a high schooler in Massachusetts. He later […]

Columbia president condemns terrorism ‘full stop’ after video surfaces of her calling it ‘form of protesting’

12:07 am April 23, 2024

As Columbia University President Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik faces scrutiny from ongoing campus protests over Israel’s war with Hamas, a more than 20-year-old video is getting renewed attention for remarks on the causes of terrorism. The video, filmed just two months after 9/11, shows Shafik – who was then vice president at the World […]

The US is expected to block military aid to an Israeli army unit. What is the Leahy law?

12:06 am April 23, 2024

Israel expects its top ally, the United States, to announce as soon as Monday that it’s blocking military aid to an Israeli army unit over gross human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago. The move would mark the first time in the decades-long partnership between […]

Judge declares mistrial in case of Arizona rancher charged with murder of Mexican national on border property

12:04 am April 23, 2024

A jury was unable to reach a verdict in the case of Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly, who was accused of second-degree murder in connection to the death of a Mexican national found fatally shot on his borderland ranch in January 2023. The jury began deliberating April 18. After days of being unable to reach […]

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