The Guardian — Mon 19 Dec 2022 Dutch Prime Minister apologises for Netherlands’ role in slave trade PM Mark Rutte says Dutch state ‘enabled, encouraged and profited from slavery’ for centuries Jon Henley Europe correspondent Mark Rutte has offered a formal apology on behalf of the Dutch state for the Netherlands’ historical role in the … Continue reading Follow-up: Apology for Slavery in Suriname Delivered by Dutch PM
Enough babble about the World Cup. Spare me the hype surrounding the Super Bowl. I’m not even thinking of MLB Spring Training. There’s a spot in the Big American History Record Book waiting to be filled, and I’m fed up & full to the eyebrows with waiting.
Pulitzer Prize-winning national columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. is retiring and wrote his final column Tuesday. “Time flew, didn’t it? Now, it’s time for me to fly off, too.”
In the recent midterm elections, the North Carolina vote suppression party fell only one seat short of reclaiming the veto-proof majority, which they had deployed like a sledgehammer on human rights until governor Roy Cooper’s political skills broke through it. Now, as he explains here, they are looking to the rightwing bloc on the U. … Continue reading Quote of the Week: A Nationwide Warning from North Carolina
Minorities make up a majority or near majority in fewer new state legislative districts despite accounting for nearly all of the population growth over the past decade.