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We Charge Genocide was ignored by much of the mainstream American press. One exception, the Chicago Tribune, called it "shameful lies" (and evidence against the value of the Genocide Convention itself). [19] I. F. Stone was the only white American journalist to write favorably of the document.
We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government against the Negro People. Editor. New York: International Publishers, 1970. Four Score Years in Freedom's Fight: A Tribute to William L. Patterson on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, Chicago, Illinois, October 22, 1971 ...
In February 2015, Ackerman published a series of articles in The Guardian describing the Homan Square facility as "an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site."
In Chicago, she founded the Chicago Freedom School, [10] the Rogers Park Young Women's Action Team (YWAT), [3] Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, [11] [12] Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander, [13] and We Charge Genocide (WCG). [14] In 2009, Kaba founded the organization Project NIA, which advocates to end youth ...
She has served on multiple committees and boards regarding the efforts of reformation of the justice system such as Violence Against Women, Black Scholar and We Charge Genocide. Kaba worked with Royal to create Missing Daddy. Royal wanted to illustrate the book as such the characters had darker complexions because she felt that there had been a ...
The World Court ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, but it stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire.
In 2021, Alex Hinton, director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University, says the original We Charge Genocide petition was "very compelling" but ahead of its time. He said, "While many may think that genocidal annihilation only looks like Nazi mass murder, the U.N. Genocide Convention clearly incorporates ...
Liberal netizens tore into the elderly husband of Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) for appearing to turn down Vice President Kamala Harris’ handshake last week, but viral footage that swirled online ...