Meryl Sebastian BBC News, Kochi Alamy Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair was one of the few Indians to hold high government positions during British rule Long before India gained independence, one defiant voice inside the British Empire dared to call out a colonial massacre – and paid a price for it. Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair, a...
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma is preparing to award its black community a $105m (£73.8m) reparations package to address the harms caused by the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the largest and most violent racial attacks in US history. The plan, by Monroe Nichols, Tulsa’s first black mayor, focuses on community redevelopment and...
Israel killed the UNRWA employee, sent to respond to the massacre of 15 paramedics, via a blow to the back of the head. The UN has dubbed Israel’s killing of a UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) rescue worker in March a “summary execution,” sharing new details regarding Israel’s widely condemned paramedic...
Carol Malia Presenter, BBC Look North (North East & Cumbria) Duncan Leatherdale BBC News, North East and Cumbria BBC Derrick Bird left a trail of devastated families and survivors in his wake Fifteen years ago, taxi driver Derrick Bird killed 12 people in a murderous shooting spree across Cumbria. Many locals still refuse to speak...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Content Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence to children. As the Jewish community prepares to observe Passover this year, I’m thinking a great deal about the centrality of children to the Exodus story we tell around the seder table. In particular, I’m...