Civil Rights / Human Rights

There Are No Pure Cultures – We Have Always Been Global

In the 1990s, an entire generation was robbed of its historical consciousness by a powerful and…
Musk’s Comments About South Africa Reveal He Never Really Knew The Place

Elon Musk was born in South Africa during the apartheid era. Isaacson’s biography makes much of…
South Africa Was The World’s Most Fastidiously Organized White Supremacist State

When I first arrived in South Africa in 2009, it still felt as if a storm…
U.S. Executions Surged in 2025 to Highest Level in 16 Years

US executions have surged in 2025 to the highest level in 16 years, as Donald Trump’s…
Redistricting Battles, Set Off by Trump, Have Few Parallels in U.S. History

Election lawyers and experts say that what is happening now is a crisis with few parallels…
Equality In Law Is Not Equality in Practice

I wrote this in 2017, during the rise of #BlackLivesMatter, and it remains true today. ====…
Head of Workplace Rights Agency Urges White Men to Report Discrimination

The head of the U.S. agency for enforcing workplace civil rights posted a social media call-out…