Why Cuba Isn’t a U.S. Playground Just Yet
Cuba and the U.S. took the first major step this week toward becoming friends, but it doesn’t mean that there’ll be a McDonalds on Havana street corner just yet.
Are Sanctuary Cities Safer?
More than 200 cities don’t cooperate with U.S. Immigration to deport undocumented immigrants. Police say it helps them to fight crime by building trust with immigrants.
Obama Dropped the N-bomb and Everyone Freaked Out
President Obama used the word n***** on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast and the U.S. went nuts. But what he actually said about race makes a lot of sense.
Charleston Reacts: Mother and Daughter Transcend Race
This mother and daughter transcend the boundaries of race – and try to bring Charleston together.
A one-minute quick-turnaround edit for Al Jazeera’s AJ+ following the shooting of nine black people by a white man in Charleston, South Carolina. The video, originally published on the AJ+ Facebook and Youtube pages, as well as being picked up by other media, received almost 600,000 views.
Charleston Shares Emotions During Vigil for 9 Shooting Victims
Charleston held vigils Thursday night to mourn the nine who were killed by 21-year-old Dylann Roof. The community spoke to AJ+ about how they’re coping in the aftermath of the violence.
Is Racism Alive and Well in South Africa’s Schools?
South African apartheid ended in 1994 – but this video footage suggests that segregation at one school in Johannesburg may be alive and well.
NASA: Whole World is Drying Up
It’s not only California that’s got water problems – NASA says the whole world is drying up.
The Pope Wants You To Believe In Climate Change
Pope Francis wants to save not just Christian souls, but the Earth, too. The pontiff has written a 192-page religious text warning the world that more needs to be done to tackle climate change.
‘Just forget about Syria. Forget about going back’
No matter how hard he tries, Nemer, a 22-year-old Syrian immigrant living in New Jersey, cannot shake the vision from his mind: 60 people huddled in a tin cell made for 10 out in the Syrian desert. They take it in turns to sleep on the floor. At night the desert is so cold the metal is like ice; by morning the prison is an oven.
This was the fate of a friend jailed for 18 months for publishing an anti-regime poem on Facebook. ‘Like this they torture you for 24 hours,’ says Nemer (who is using a pseudonym out of concern for his family’s safety). ‘But when a friend calls me to say, “Just forget about Syria, forget about going back,” it’s like pulling one of my nerves. It’s like holding my heart and taking it out of my body to tell me I’m not going back to Syria.’
Haiti cholera victims get a hearing in US court
Delama Georges lives one stop from the end of the No. 2 train line in Brooklyn, right next to Holy Cross Cemetery. His proximity to so much death did not bother him until Nov. 9, 2011, when he learned that both his parents contracted cholera during a visit to his sister in Haiti. While Georges’ mother lay in a coma, brought on by dehydration from violent vomiting and diarrhea, his father died, joining more than 8,500 Haitians who died in the epidemic, which began four years ago this month.