It’s only taken them over three weeks, but the African Union’s finally broken its silence and come out against plans to essentially dismember war-torn Sudan. The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary and its allies signed a charter in Kenya last month for the creation of a government to rival Khartoum, its opponent in Sudan’s proxy war. The AU is urging the international community to have no dealings with any parallel administration - not something the Arab states bank-rolling the RSF are likely to heed.
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Sudan's nearly two-year foreign-backed proxy war has devastated the North-East African country. However, UNICEF has released a shocking report on widespread sexual violence committed by armed men against children and adults. While both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the United Arab Emirates-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are accused of war crimes and human rights violations, the UN has singled out the RSF for systematic and widespread use of r*pe as a weapon against civilians, such as abduction and s*xual slavery of women and girls in parts of Sudan under its control.
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Continued…..Sources
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sudan-civil-war-child-rape-sexual-assault-unicef-army-rsf-rcna194648
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sudan-civil-war-children-unicef-rsf-rcna130738
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66317210
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2023/8/14/dont-let-the-other-soldiers-watch-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-sudan
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session57/A-HRC-57-CRP-6-en.pdf
UNICEF
Children as young as one reported among survivors of rape during Sudan’s violent conflict
NEW YORK, 4 March 2025 – Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children, including infants as young as one, amid the nationwide conflict rippling across Sudan.
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HOW LBJ TRIED TO CENSOR CIVIL RIGHTS HEROINE
Today, we pay tribute to Fannie Lou Hamer, an indomitable civil-rights leader and passionate community organiser whose legacy continues to inspire us. She passed away on 14 March 1977, but her fight for justice and equality resonates powerfully to this day.
During the 1960s, Black Southerners came together to organise and resist White-supremacy and systemic violence against African-Americans. Hamer was one of the founders and the vice-chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, a political force created to challenge the racist mainstream Mississippi Democratic Party.
Today, we pay tribute to Fannie Lou Hamer, an indomitable civil-rights leader and passionate community organiser whose legacy continues to inspire us. She passed away on 14 March 1977, but her fight for justice and equality resonates powerfully to this day.
During the 1960s, Black Southerners came together to organise and resist White-supremacy and systemic violence against African-Americans. Hamer was one of the founders and the vice-chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, a political force created to challenge the racist mainstream Mississippi Democratic Party.
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Continued……In 1964, in a bid to change things, she gave a powerful testimony to the Democratic National Convention, explaining her hardships and why the Mississippi Democrats needed to reform.
This was televised - or it was supposed to be - until President Lyndon B. Johnson cut her off air during an ‘urgent’ TV press conference. This turned out to be a complete distraction - Johnson merely reminded reporters that it had been nine months since Kennedy’s assassination! That gave the game away: LBJ simply didn’t want Hamer’s words to reach the wider nation.
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This was televised - or it was supposed to be - until President Lyndon B. Johnson cut her off air during an ‘urgent’ TV press conference. This turned out to be a complete distraction - Johnson merely reminded reporters that it had been nine months since Kennedy’s assassination! That gave the game away: LBJ simply didn’t want Hamer’s words to reach the wider nation.
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THE COLONISER NEVER LEFT
This week, world leaders gathered to celebrate the Commonwealth - a club of 56 nations supposedly united by shared values and mutual prosperity. But behind the fanfare lies a brutal truth - the Commonwealth is simply the British Empire in new clothes. Pan Africanist scholar PLO Lumumba has long called out this illusion. In this clip, he argues that the Commonwealth was simply a way for the British Empire to rebrand while still maintaining the oppressive, exploitative system it benefited from.
Indeed, Commonwealth Day was known as Empire Day before the name was changed in 1958. While the Commonwealth promotes itself as a vehicle for unity and justice, there is nothing ‘common’ in the ‘wealth.’ Britain, like many colonial powers, refuses to atone for historical injustices.
This week, world leaders gathered to celebrate the Commonwealth - a club of 56 nations supposedly united by shared values and mutual prosperity. But behind the fanfare lies a brutal truth - the Commonwealth is simply the British Empire in new clothes. Pan Africanist scholar PLO Lumumba has long called out this illusion. In this clip, he argues that the Commonwealth was simply a way for the British Empire to rebrand while still maintaining the oppressive, exploitative system it benefited from.
Indeed, Commonwealth Day was known as Empire Day before the name was changed in 1958. While the Commonwealth promotes itself as a vehicle for unity and justice, there is nothing ‘common’ in the ‘wealth.’ Britain, like many colonial powers, refuses to atone for historical injustices.
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Continued……The Caribbean, for instance, has demanded $24 trillion for Britain’s role in slavery. By some estimates, the UK owes India alone $45 trillion for its colonial-era plundering of the nation. Despite this, various administrations across Britain’s political spectrum have rejected calls for apologies and reparations.
The UK also perpetuates the oppressive status quo left in place after flag independence. It’s one of the IMF’s richest members, yet in 2021, the Fund granted London $27.5 billion in Special Drawing Rights - more than was allocated to all low-income countries combined ($21 billion). The IMF is hellbent on implementing neoliberalism on our continent, cutting funding for critical sectors such as healthcare and education, while deregulating labour and imposing privatisation - to disastrous effect.
Why, then, would any self-respecting sovereign country choose to be a part of the Commonwealth?
Video Credit: Africa Web TV (YouTube)
Sources
Caribbean demands
https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-news/trillions-owed-in-reparations-for-slavery-says-report/
India bill
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india/
Rejection of reparation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65401579
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlnrjd3087o
Britain in the IMF
https://debtjustice.org.uk/news/joint-statement-on-uks-re-channelling-of-special-drawing-rights-sdrs-allocation
IMF in Africa
https://actionaid.org/publications/2023/fifty-years-failure-imf-debt-and-austerity-africa
The UK also perpetuates the oppressive status quo left in place after flag independence. It’s one of the IMF’s richest members, yet in 2021, the Fund granted London $27.5 billion in Special Drawing Rights - more than was allocated to all low-income countries combined ($21 billion). The IMF is hellbent on implementing neoliberalism on our continent, cutting funding for critical sectors such as healthcare and education, while deregulating labour and imposing privatisation - to disastrous effect.
Why, then, would any self-respecting sovereign country choose to be a part of the Commonwealth?
Video Credit: Africa Web TV (YouTube)
Sources
Caribbean demands
https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-news/trillions-owed-in-reparations-for-slavery-says-report/
India bill
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india/
Rejection of reparation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65401579
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlnrjd3087o
Britain in the IMF
https://debtjustice.org.uk/news/joint-statement-on-uks-re-channelling-of-special-drawing-rights-sdrs-allocation
IMF in Africa
https://actionaid.org/publications/2023/fifty-years-failure-imf-debt-and-austerity-africa
National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC)
Trillions owed in reparations for slavery says report
A study on the quantification of reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery (TCS) in the Americas and the Caribbean has found that trillions of dollars are owed to these countries as a result of the slave trade.
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GHANA PRESIDENT MEETS REVOLUTIONARY SAHEL LEADERS
Ghana’s newly elected president, John Mahama, recently completed a tour of the three Alliance of Sahel States (AES) countries, namely Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. The friendliness between Ghana and its northern neighbours may be no surprise after Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré received an illustrious welcome at Mahama’s inauguration on 7 January.
Nevertheless, certain regional players, like Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Ghana, have attempted to ensure envoys draw the AES states back into the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Instead, the AES countries finalised their exit from the ECOWAS bloc on 29 January 2025.
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Ghana’s newly elected president, John Mahama, recently completed a tour of the three Alliance of Sahel States (AES) countries, namely Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. The friendliness between Ghana and its northern neighbours may be no surprise after Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré received an illustrious welcome at Mahama’s inauguration on 7 January.
Nevertheless, certain regional players, like Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Ghana, have attempted to ensure envoys draw the AES states back into the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Instead, the AES countries finalised their exit from the ECOWAS bloc on 29 January 2025.
Video credits: @joynewsontv (X), @rtburkina (X + IG), @faso7_bf (X + IG), @ortntele (X), @bf1tele (X) / @bf1tv (IG)
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Continued…. Sources
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/29/sahel-states-exit-ecowas-launch-regional-passport-and-joint-military/
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https://statehouse.gov.ng/news/president-tinubu-receives-president-bassiruo-faye-of-senegal-says-west-africa-must-work-in-unison-to-defeat-terrorism-human-trafficking/
https://en.sputniknews.africa/20240530/niger-invites-ecowas-countries-to-join-alliance-of-sahel-states-1066799471.html
Sputnik Africa
Ghana’s President Mahama Vows to Rebuild Trust Between AES and ECOWAS
The President of Ghana arrived in Mali on Saturday for a one-day visit, during which he and Malian President Assimi Goita discussed economic and security issues, as well as regional tensions. After this, the Ghanaian leader headed to the...
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Sudan has banned all imports from Kenya. It comes after Nairobi infuriated Khartoum by hosting the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary - which is engaged in a brutal proxy war with the Sudanese army - for talks on setting up a rival government in Sudan.
A decree issued by Sudan’s acting Trade Minister, Omar Ahmed Mohamed on 13 March, states that Kenyan goods will be banned from entering the country via ports, airports and border crossings - effective immediately until further notice.
A decree issued by Sudan’s acting Trade Minister, Omar Ahmed Mohamed on 13 March, states that Kenyan goods will be banned from entering the country via ports, airports and border crossings - effective immediately until further notice.
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Continued…. In late February, Kenya facilitated discussions involving the (United Arab Emirates-backed) RSF and its alleged allies, which signed a political charter and another for a transitional constitution, paving the way for the formation of a parallel authority in areas controlled by the RSF.
Kenya’s hosting of the signing drew sharp criticism from Sudan’s foreign ministry, which recalled its ambassador from Nairobi in protest, accusing Kenyan President William Ruto of acting on “his commercial and personal interests with the militia’s regional sponsors.” In mid-January, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates signed an economic agreement, which they called a “historic milestone in economic relations between the two nations.” The UAE has been accused by the UN of supplying weapons to the RSF.
Sudan ranks as the tenth-largest global importer of Kenyan tea and the second-largest in Africa. According to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), Kenya exported goods worth $48.2 million to Sudan in 2023, with tea accounting for $29.6 million, processed tobacco for $3.66 million and seed oils for $1.84 million.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/23/sudans-rsf-allies-sign-charter-for-rival-government-despite-criticisms
https://www.voanews.com/a/sudan-s-rsf-allied-groups-to-sign-charter-to-form-parallel-government/7984593.html
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/africa/sudan-junta-threatens-to-cut-tea-imports-from-kenya-4937894
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/ken/partner/sdn
https://mfa.go.ke/kenya-and-uae-sign-landmark-comprehensive-economic-partnership-agreement
https://www.reuters.com/world/uae-flights-flood-airstrip-un-says-supplies-weapons-sudan-rebels-2024-12-12/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crln9lk51dro
Kenya’s hosting of the signing drew sharp criticism from Sudan’s foreign ministry, which recalled its ambassador from Nairobi in protest, accusing Kenyan President William Ruto of acting on “his commercial and personal interests with the militia’s regional sponsors.” In mid-January, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates signed an economic agreement, which they called a “historic milestone in economic relations between the two nations.” The UAE has been accused by the UN of supplying weapons to the RSF.
Sudan ranks as the tenth-largest global importer of Kenyan tea and the second-largest in Africa. According to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), Kenya exported goods worth $48.2 million to Sudan in 2023, with tea accounting for $29.6 million, processed tobacco for $3.66 million and seed oils for $1.84 million.
Sources
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/23/sudans-rsf-allies-sign-charter-for-rival-government-despite-criticisms
https://www.voanews.com/a/sudan-s-rsf-allied-groups-to-sign-charter-to-form-parallel-government/7984593.html
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https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/ken/partner/sdn
https://mfa.go.ke/kenya-and-uae-sign-landmark-comprehensive-economic-partnership-agreement
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crln9lk51dro
Sudan Tribune
Sudan bans Kenyan imports over support for paramilitary force
March 13, 2025 (PORT SUDAN) – Sudan’s Ministry of Trade and Supply on Thursday suspended all imports from Kenya, it said, in protest at Kenya’s hosting of meetings with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). On Feb. 23, Kenya hosted meetings between…
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MIA MOTTLEY NOT SCARED OF U.S. VISA BAN, STANDS WITH CUBA
One Caribbean island nation is not amused by US threats of visa restrictions against officials facilitating Cuba’s medical internationalism.
In this recent video clip, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said if a US visa ban is the price for enjoying Cuba’s medical solidarity, so be it. She urged the rest of CARICOM (regional bloc Caribbean Community) to join her by standing on principle.
Cuba has been a pillar in the region’s healthcare. It has dispatched doctors to Haiti since 1998, has at least 400 medics in Jamaica and, as Mottley attests, played a crucial role in Barbados’ COVID-19 efforts.
One Caribbean island nation is not amused by US threats of visa restrictions against officials facilitating Cuba’s medical internationalism.
In this recent video clip, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said if a US visa ban is the price for enjoying Cuba’s medical solidarity, so be it. She urged the rest of CARICOM (regional bloc Caribbean Community) to join her by standing on principle.
Cuba has been a pillar in the region’s healthcare. It has dispatched doctors to Haiti since 1998, has at least 400 medics in Jamaica and, as Mottley attests, played a crucial role in Barbados’ COVID-19 efforts.
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Continued……Cuba has also benefited Africa, with Algeria boasting links as far back as when French colonial doctors exited during Algeria’s hard-fought independence struggle in 1961. A few years later, Cuba formalised its medical solidarity work, helping people as far away as Ghanaians and South Africans to enjoy increased rural healthcare.
The small island nation that has survived under an increasingly restrictive US economic blockade since 1960 provides more medical assistance than the G7 member-states (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) and the World Health Organization combined.
While many have related to Mottley as a beacon of progressive politics for advocating for climate-change mitigation and reparations for crimes against humanity during the European slave trade and indigenous genocide, some have raised concerns about her. For instance, in 2024, Mottley’s government dropped an agreement to pay $3.88 million to the heir of a slavemaster, British aristocrat Richard Drax, after critics worldwide denounced the plan.
Mottley also pledged to send Barbados’ troops to Haiti under a US-funded occupation led by Kenya that is still underway. Such a move misses or conveniently ignores the economic and sociopolitical factors—including the role of the US, France and Canada, among others—that led to Haiti’s crisis.
Let us know what you think.
Video credit: @PMOBarbados on YouTube (@miaamormottley on X, @mamottley on IG)
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News
https://cayman.loopnews.com/content/watch-barbados-pm-mia-mottley-stands-cuban-doctors-nurses-732155
Cuba Haiti
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169%2Fintejcubastud.15.2.0203
Cuba Jamaica
https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/03/13/cuban-doctors-in-caricom-are-not-trafficked/
Cuba Barbados
https://www.foreign.gov.bb/barbados-cuba-sign-a-health-cooperation-agreement/
Cuba Algeria
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169%2Fintejcubastud.15.2.0203
Cuba Ghana/South Africa
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2023/05/20/ghana-grateful-for-cuban-doctors-40-year-professionalism/
Barbados to pay slaveowner heir
https://caribbeanempowerment.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/barbados-mia-mottley-to-pay-reparations-to-slave-master
Mottly
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/barbados-leader-halts-3m-payout-to-uk-mp-for-drax-hall-plantation
US destabilisation of Haiti
https://haitisolidarity.net/haitians-struggle-to-survive-under-us-destabilization-policies
US blockade of Cuba
https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-cuba-relations
Barbados troops to Haiti
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-44023-haiti-flash-barbados-suspends-its-decision-to-send-troops-to-haiti.html
US congressmembers call medical internationalism 'slavery'
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/foia/Cuban_Medical_Professional_Parole_Program-Representative_Schultz.pdf
The small island nation that has survived under an increasingly restrictive US economic blockade since 1960 provides more medical assistance than the G7 member-states (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) and the World Health Organization combined.
While many have related to Mottley as a beacon of progressive politics for advocating for climate-change mitigation and reparations for crimes against humanity during the European slave trade and indigenous genocide, some have raised concerns about her. For instance, in 2024, Mottley’s government dropped an agreement to pay $3.88 million to the heir of a slavemaster, British aristocrat Richard Drax, after critics worldwide denounced the plan.
Mottley also pledged to send Barbados’ troops to Haiti under a US-funded occupation led by Kenya that is still underway. Such a move misses or conveniently ignores the economic and sociopolitical factors—including the role of the US, France and Canada, among others—that led to Haiti’s crisis.
Let us know what you think.
Video credit: @PMOBarbados on YouTube (@miaamormottley on X, @mamottley on IG)
Sources
News
https://cayman.loopnews.com/content/watch-barbados-pm-mia-mottley-stands-cuban-doctors-nurses-732155
Cuba Haiti
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169%2Fintejcubastud.15.2.0203
Cuba Jamaica
https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/03/13/cuban-doctors-in-caricom-are-not-trafficked/
Cuba Barbados
https://www.foreign.gov.bb/barbados-cuba-sign-a-health-cooperation-agreement/
Cuba Algeria
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169%2Fintejcubastud.15.2.0203
Cuba Ghana/South Africa
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2023/05/20/ghana-grateful-for-cuban-doctors-40-year-professionalism/
Barbados to pay slaveowner heir
https://caribbeanempowerment.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/barbados-mia-mottley-to-pay-reparations-to-slave-master
Mottly
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/barbados-leader-halts-3m-payout-to-uk-mp-for-drax-hall-plantation
US destabilisation of Haiti
https://haitisolidarity.net/haitians-struggle-to-survive-under-us-destabilization-policies
US blockade of Cuba
https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-cuba-relations
Barbados troops to Haiti
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-44023-haiti-flash-barbados-suspends-its-decision-to-send-troops-to-haiti.html
US congressmembers call medical internationalism 'slavery'
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/foia/Cuban_Medical_Professional_Parole_Program-Representative_Schultz.pdf
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Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley spoke out strongly in support of the medical aid provided by Cuban doctors and nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic, in response to a US threat to revoke visas of officials who support alleged “labour exploitation
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REST IN PEACE, BREONNA TAYLOR (JUNE 5, 1993-MARCH 13, 2020)
This week marked the fifth anniversary of the tragic shooting of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor (1993-2020) during a 2020 police raid in the US city of Louisville, Kentucky. Plain-clothed officers entered her home using a controversial ‘no-knock’ warrant, which allowed them to avoid announcing their presence or purpose. In the chaos, they discharged their weapons 32 times, with one officer firing 10 shots through a covered window and glass door.
Taylor’s murder ignited nationwide protests, with many rallying under the banner #SayHerName.
In August 2022, federal prosecutors charged three officers—Kyle Meany, Joshua Jaynes, and Kelly Goodlett—for knowingly using false information to obtain the no-knock warrant.
This week marked the fifth anniversary of the tragic shooting of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor (1993-2020) during a 2020 police raid in the US city of Louisville, Kentucky. Plain-clothed officers entered her home using a controversial ‘no-knock’ warrant, which allowed them to avoid announcing their presence or purpose. In the chaos, they discharged their weapons 32 times, with one officer firing 10 shots through a covered window and glass door.
Taylor’s murder ignited nationwide protests, with many rallying under the banner #SayHerName.
In August 2022, federal prosecutors charged three officers—Kyle Meany, Joshua Jaynes, and Kelly Goodlett—for knowingly using false information to obtain the no-knock warrant.
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Continued……. A judge dropped the federal charge on Meany and Jaynes two years after Goodlett pleaded guilty. However, by October 2024, the US Department of Justice brought a new indictment against Meany and Jaynes. Then, on 1 November 2024, Brett Hankison became the first convicted officer, found guilty of violating Taylor’s civil rights through the use of excessive force.
Although Black people represent 13 per cent of the US population, our people account for about one-quarter of those killed by police each year. According to statista.com, the rate of fatal police shootings of Black people from 2015 to December 2024 was 6.1 per million annually, compared to 2.4 per million for white people. Many of these fatalities are unjustified, unarmed and unprovoked, highlighting a troubling disparity. Despite centuries of struggle, these issues persist for an internally colonised group like Black people in the US.
On a more hopeful note, US Senator Rand Paul reintroduced a bill in 2024 aimed at instituting a nationwide ban on no-knock warrants, known as the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act.
May she rest in peace.
Sources
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6jp80dx4no
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/4/us-charges-four-police-officers-in-breonna-taylor
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/report-black-people-are-still-killed-police-higher-rate-groups-rcna17169
https://fox59.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/kentucky-sen-rand-paul-reintroduces-breonna-taylor-act/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3900
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/23/us/federal-judge-dismisses-felony-charges-louisville-officers-breonna-taylor-raid/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/breonna-taylor-federal-charges-filed-2-ex-officers-joshua-jaynes-kyle-meany
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123070/police-shootings-rate-ethnicity-us
Although Black people represent 13 per cent of the US population, our people account for about one-quarter of those killed by police each year. According to statista.com, the rate of fatal police shootings of Black people from 2015 to December 2024 was 6.1 per million annually, compared to 2.4 per million for white people. Many of these fatalities are unjustified, unarmed and unprovoked, highlighting a troubling disparity. Despite centuries of struggle, these issues persist for an internally colonised group like Black people in the US.
On a more hopeful note, US Senator Rand Paul reintroduced a bill in 2024 aimed at instituting a nationwide ban on no-knock warrants, known as the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act.
May she rest in peace.
Sources
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6jp80dx4no
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/4/us-charges-four-police-officers-in-breonna-taylor
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/report-black-people-are-still-killed-police-higher-rate-groups-rcna17169
https://fox59.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/kentucky-sen-rand-paul-reintroduces-breonna-taylor-act/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3900
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/23/us/federal-judge-dismisses-felony-charges-louisville-officers-breonna-taylor-raid/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/breonna-taylor-federal-charges-filed-2-ex-officers-joshua-jaynes-kyle-meany
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123070/police-shootings-rate-ethnicity-us
BBC News
Ex-officer found guilty in death of Breonna Taylor
Brett Hankison is the first officer convicted in the 2020 botched raid on Taylor's apartment
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