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• Blacks (racism, USA)

  United States: First Black woman confirmed to the Supreme Court

  20 April, by MIAH Malik

  Following a deadlock on the Judiciary Committee, the United States Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116^th justice of the Supreme Court on April 7. Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve on the court since it was established 233 years ago.
  The vote was 53 to 47, (...)

• Blacks (racism, USA)

  United States: Rittenhouse verdict gives vigilantes green light to kill

  22 November 2021, by MIAH Malik

  It was expected. The judge was clearly on the side of teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, the white vigilante from Illinois.
  Kyle Rittenhouse shot his victims while they protested for justice for Jacob Blake, who was paralysed from the waist down by a police shooting. Image: Wikimedia Commons
  The 12 (...)

• Blacks (racism, USA)

  Racism Exposed, Radical Action Needed: From Paris to New Orleans

  September 2006, by MIAH Malik

  IT TURNS OUT that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class divisions.
  The August 29 hurricane showed the world that the Bush administration’s so-called (...)