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“I DON’T THINK WE’RE FREE IN AMERICA” – AN INTERVIEW WITH BRYAN STEVENSON

ALTHOUGH THE UNITED STATES has just elected a new president whose promise to make America great “again” evoked an unspecified, presumably more glorious past, Americans’ appreciation of their own history, and particularly its most damning chapters, is limited at best.

The country’s long history of racial violence can hardly be denied, but that history is regularly erased from public commemoration. Some civil rights victories are celebrated, but the violence that preceded them is seldom acknowledged.

Officials in US replace science with climate change denial days after Donald Trump's election victory

'As it has done throughout the centuries, the Earth is going through a change'


According to Cheeto Jesus climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese Meanwhile in Alaska villages north of the north pole are being abandoned due to climate change  

With over 100,000 paper cranes, man built bridge between disabled and non-disabled

Among the spectators at a Rio Paralympics wheelchair basketball game was Kunisuke Yamada, 81, who lives in the Brazilian city that hosted the 2016 games. Yamada felt like he was watching the game with his late brother, Momoho, who was born with cerebral palsy and spent his adult life building ties between people with disabilities and the non-disabled. Kunisuke believes that the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics changed his younger brother's life.

Parties can’t use religion, caste to win votes: Indian court

Landmark ruling comes ahead of polls in five states, including UP, where BJP has pledged to build a Ram temple at the disputed Ayodhya site