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2023-02-27: News Headlines

Sharde Gillam (2023-02-26). At NAACP Image Awards, Serena Williams Accepts The Jackie Robinson Sports Award. newsone.com Serena Williams arrives at the 54th Annual NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 25, 2023, in Pasadena, California. | Source: Aaron J. Thornton / Getty | Congratulations to The award recognizes individuals in sports for their achievements in athletics as well as for their work in social justice, civil rights, and community involvement. With her accepting this award, Wi…

David Rosen, Progressive. (2023-02-26). Lessons From Majid Khan's Release From Guantánamo. popularresistance.org On February 2, U.S. prisoner and former al Qaeda courier Majid Khan was released from the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba after more than sixteen years of imprisonment. "We are very pleased with Majid's release," says J. Wells Dixon, a senior staff attorney at the New York City-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). | "Majid's transfer to Belize is the culmination of nearly twenty years of work by the CCR and the law firm Jenner & Block," Dixon tells The Progressive "Our only regret is that he was not released sooner." | On October 7, 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States, tog…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-27). Black History Month – Dr. Lionel Kankeu Fonkoua, helping at-risk patients and increasing diversity in clinical trials. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Lionel Kankeu Fonkoua Black History Month is a month for all people to celebrate and learn about the diverse and important contributions of Black Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity, and discrimination. The Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Dr. Lionel Kankeu Fonkoua, an oncologist with…

Sharde Gillam (2023-02-26). At NAACP Image Awards, Serena Williams Accepts The Jackie Robinson Sports Award. newsone.com Serena Williams arrives at the 54th Annual NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 25, 2023, in Pasadena, California. | Source: Aaron J. Thornton / Getty | Congratulations to The award recognizes individuals in sports for their achievements in athletics as well as for their work in social justice, civil rights, and community involvement. With her accepting this award, Wi…

David Rosen, Progressive. (2023-02-26). Lessons From Majid Khan's Release From Guantánamo. popularresistance.org On February 2, U.S. prisoner and former al Qaeda courier Majid Khan was released from the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba after more than sixteen years of imprisonment. "We are very pleased with Majid's release," says J. Wells Dixon, a senior staff attorney at the New York City-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). | "Majid's transfer to Belize is the culmination of nearly twenty years of work by the CCR and the law firm Jenner & Block," Dixon tells The Progressive "Our only regret is that he was not released sooner." | On October 7, 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States, tog…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-27). Black History Month – Dr. Lionel Kankeu Fonkoua, helping at-risk patients and increasing diversity in clinical trials. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Lionel Kankeu Fonkoua Black History Month is a month for all people to celebrate and learn about the diverse and important contributions of Black Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity, and discrimination. The Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Dr. Lionel Kankeu Fonkoua, an oncologist with…

TRNN (2023-02-26). Apply now: Baltimore Pipeline of Working and Emerging Reporters (P.O.W.E.R.) Fellowship. therealnews.com Just Media and The Real News Network are joining forces to create more opportunities for emerging journalists in Baltimore, especially young Baltimoreans of color, to report on the local criminal justice system, informed by the experience of this system's impact on their own communities. | Who should report stories on policing and mass incarceration? Who gets a platform to cover the impacts of this carceral system on Baltimore's Black communities, and the alternatives these communities envision? | This…

Sharde Gillam (2023-02-27). At NAACP Image Awards, Gabrielle Union And Dwyane Wade Honor Their Daughter Zaya. newsone.com Source: Amy Sussman / Getty | All eyes were on During the heartfelt speech, Dwyane Wade looked directly into the camera and spoke to his daug…

americanthinker (2023-02-26). Dumbing down America with DEI. americanthinker.com An agenda against minority certainly Americans exists, but it's not conservatives perpetrating the oppression.

Anonymous Contributor (2023-02-26). Mexico: Feminist Political Prisoners Magda Soberanes and Karla Tello Released from Prison. itsgoingdown.org

Kawsachun News, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-02-26). Undefeated Revolutions And The Peculiar Character Of Gabriel Boric. popularresistance.org The United States was able to actually overthrow, oust and defeat electorally, as a result of this pressure, several countries in the region, several left-wing governments, starting from the one in Honduras in 2009, then Fernando Lugo in Paraguay in 2012. Tried, nearly successfully, a coup d'etat in Ecuador in 2010 and then everybody knows who was behind the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and obviously was training, Sergio Moro, the judge that managed to imprison Lula and even was involved in many ways in the 2019 coup d'etat against Evo Morales in Bolivia. | So by 2019-2020, it looked like the United Stat…

Staff (2023-02-26). Seven years on, injustice remains: Remembering Omar Nayef Zayed. samidoun.net 26 February 2023 marks the seventh anniversary of the death of Omar Nayef Zayed, former Palestinian prisoner who escaped from occupation prisons, in the Palestinian Authority embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he sought refuge after the Israeli occupation demanded his extradition 28 years after he liberated himself. The self-liberation of six Palestinian prisoners in the …

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