Billionaire George Soros’ son vows to broaden Open Society Foundations’ scope after taking over empire
The foundation directs about $1.5 billion a year to groups such as those backing human rights around the world and helping build democracies, the Journal reported.
Honest tellings of history: ‘Black Was the Ink’ was banned because it unearths what’s often left out of American textbooks
“Black Was the Ink” is told through the eyes of a modern African American teen named Malcolm who embarks on a miraculous journey to Reconstruction-era America with the help of a ghostly ancestor. While in the past, Malcolm witnesses the historic contributions of Black legislators, who worked alongside white allies to bring justice, education, and land ownership to America’s newest citizens, the 4.4 million African Americans emancipated from slavery at the end of the Civil War.
Republicans join parents in Utah to protest ban on Bible in schools as a ‘violent, vulgar, incestuous’ book
The Bible removal is the highest-profile effort to remove a book from a school in Utah since the Legislature passed a law requiring school districts to create new pathways for residents to challenge “sensitive materials” and used a statute-based definition on pornography to define them.
Bombing of Fulani herders underlines pattern of deadly military assaults in Nigeria ‘overseen’ by US and Britain
Clashes between farmers and semi-nomadic herders have killed more than 3,600 people since 2016 in parts of Nigeria, according to a report published by London-based Amnesty International in December 2018. The violence is often painted as ethnic or religious in nature: chiefly Muslim Fulani herders clashing with mainly Christian farmers. But many experts say climate change and expanding agriculture are creating competition – and conflicts – over access to water and land, regardless of faith or ethnicity.
Credibility of legacy media put to test as a US children’s rights body sues major news companies for free speech, antitrust violations
Core partners of TNI’s “coalition of the willing” include the AP, Agence France Press, the BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Financial Times, First Draft, Google/YouTube, The Hindu, The Nation Media Group, Meta, Microsoft, Reuters, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Twitter and The Washington Post.
Why Caesarean deliveries in US are higher for Black than White women, 2.2m live in maternity care deserts
President Joe Biden’s budget for fiscal year 2024 includes $471 million in funding to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity rates, expand maternal health initiatives in rural communities, and implicit bias training and other initiatives. It also requires states to provide continuous Medicaid coverage for 12 months postpartum, to eliminate gaps in health insurance. It also includes $1.9 billion in funding for women and child health programs.
In ex-US Secretary of State ‘Henry Kissinger’s killing fields’ in Cambodia media couldn’t report on the carnage
In another confidential cable sent in December 1973, Thomas Enders made a final accounting of solatium payments to those who had lost a relative in Neak Luong. They had actually not received the $400 per dead civilian that they had been promised. In the end, the US valued the dead of Neak Luong at just $218 apiece.
Newly declassified documents profile former US foreign secretary Henry Kissinger as ‘history’s bloodiest social climber’
State Department documents, declassified in 2005 but largely ignored, show that the death toll at Neak Luong may have been far worse than was publicly reported at the time, and that the real toll was purposefully withheld by the US government.
It’s a sigh of relief for President Biden as US debt ceiling bill passes House with broad bipartisan support
The legislation suspends – in essence, temporarily removes – the federal government’s borrowing limit through January 1, 2025. The timeline allows Biden and Congress to set aside the politically risky issue until after the November 2024 presidential election.
Republican aspirant Ron DeSantis steps up withering attacks on party frontrunner Trump in Florida
Trump, the front-runner in the Republican race, recently assailed DeSantis’ handling of the Covid pandemic, when DeSantis resisted federal mask and vaccine mandates. DeSantis called Trump’s criticisms “detached from reality” and argued Republicans would respond by supporting him.
