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2019: A Year of Flipping Scripts and Changing Narratives in Africa

Amanda Lichtenstein and Nwachukwu Egbunike Global Voices
Omoleye Sowore, Nigerian journalist and human rights activist.
Africa 2019: a year of revolutions, internet shutdowns, massive tree planting; a year of migration, feminist uprisings, and jailed journalists; of cyclones, climate change, and opposition rising, a year of cultural icons dying, illness, and cures.

“When They Kill One, A Thousand More Are Born”

Jen Moore Foreign Policy in Focus
Ten years ago, water activist Mariano Abarca was murdered in Chiapas. Since then, conditions have gotten worse. To mark the anniversary and continued struggle, his life was honored by a presentation of an environmental defense award in his honor.

Promoting Action on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

Ronald E. Stubblefield Maryland Matters
Racial and economic justice is necessary due to Maryland’s legacy of facilitating and advancing racism for the benefit of a few at the expense of the whole. With greater commitment, the state can correct for what occurred under the color of law.

Tech Workers Should Unionize

Hamilton Nolan Gawker
The fact that your company gives you good free lunches and shuttles to work and nice paycheck does not change the fact that you could get more by negotiating together, as a union. Anyone smart enough to get a job at Google is smart enough to grasp these facts.

The Historians' Group of the Communist Party - Ten Years that Reshaped History

Gil Shohat Imperial & Global Forum
In late 1946 a group of historians, friends and members of the Communist Party started regularly meeting in Marx’s House in London. By means of discussion papers, presentations, and conferences it was sought to alter the way the British people perceived their own history.

Dr. Quentin Young, Doctor to Martin Luther King Jr. and Obama, Dies at 93

Sam Cholke DNA Info
"From my adolescent years to the present, I've never wavered in my belief in humanity's ability - and our collective responsibility - to bring about a more just and equitable social order. I've always believed in humanity's potential to create a more caring society.