A billboard in New York City that showed a picture of a black girl with the message, "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb," has been taken down.

An overview of the trial of Shawna Forde in Tucson tells us little we don't already know.... I kept missing the fact that she was a beautician....

A rather unbiased piece (though tipped off in the end) by a "real socialist" (not your animus Obamacreation that you keep dreaming up around every left-leaning corner in DC today) about the facts on the ground & what you should know about the Egyptian revolution: that it's "a mas …

While the new report may be the first of its kind, the unique plight of immigrant women, particularly the sexual harassment and violence to which they are subjected, is not entirely undocumented.

At least the British press is covering the trial of Shawna Forde for this outrageous murder of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores & her father by the renegade Minutemen operative.

We definitely need to heed Tim's advice to put away "the safe & sanitized version of this man & his compatriots" & "awaken from the stupor" which our "Ambien-induced haze" has cast upon us in order to deal with the legacies of injustice which MLK against which he spent his life f …

What would it be like if we really remembered Martin Luther King and honored his memory? Would we think about the advances he and his supporters made in civil and human rights? Would we work to preserve and expand them?

A second time around, this expose on the culture of corruption & secrecy that allows Border Patrol officials literally get away with murder was even more rewarding & meaningful: it is an absolute must-read, regardless of your political persuasion.

It does us well to reflect on the stories of our victims....

Let's hope that noone protests at the funerals!

An encyclopedia of rightisms!

Now this is what an adult conversation looks like!

WBAI's Evening News had the best coverage, detailing the stories of the unscrupulous restauranteur who answered a plea for payment with a whack of a frying pan & the contractor who threw someone out of a moving vehicle after they had severely beaten them - all for asking when the …

Imagine if your employers felt that they could strike you upside the head with a frying pan when you asked to get paid or throw you out of a moving car after severely assaulting you - & get away with it! Would you believe in the need for better labor laws then?

"Neighbours of a mother arrested after her four-year-old daughter was killed as an apparent religious offering told how they heard screams from the family's flat.

"More than one in three South African men questioned in a survey admitted to rape, the latest evidence in the country of a violent culture of patriarchy.

•Between 1920 and 1970, 900,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries. The 1940s were a turning point in this tragedy; of those expelled, 600,000 settled in the new state of Israel, and 300,000 in France and the United States.

A cartoon published last week in the newspaper that serves as the official mouthpiece for the Palestinian Authority continued Ramallah's campaign of incitement against the State of Israel, and explained at least in part why peace has not yet been achieved with the PA.

Those who have some transient leverage upon this group or that group may be able to negatively affect other groups – and they do, right willingly – but they do it at a high price to the health and well being of everyone.

JAKARTA, Indonesia, October 13 (CDN) — Islamic organizations have mounted a campaign against the planned construction of Mother Teresa Catholic Church in West Java Province, where Christian leaders report 20 other churches have faced Muslim hostility since 2009.

Shortly before Russia inserted the fuel rods into Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor on August 21, some experts warned it would be the last opportunity for Israel to destroy the facility and prevent Iran from going nuclear.

The Palestinian Authority has publicly labeled Jewish worship at the Western Wall to be "sin and filth" in a television program broadcast in Arabic on Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year.

Machete-wielding rioters hacked at least 200 people to death yesterday in the latest wave of religious violence in Nigeria.

It's no secret that the leaders of many Christian traditions prefer to stick with unambiguously male depictions of God, despite the feminine alternatives present in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. But it hasn't always been this way.

Now these Muslim feminists have had enough. Hoping to reform Islam by making it more women-friendly, Ms. Thompson—an American convert to Islam—has organized several "pray-ins" at mosques in the D.C. area.

To NGOs, the gems represent the repression they campaign against. But these riches could transform my country...

A home on the street in the same Eastpointe neighborhood where several black families received hate mail is now the subject of an arson investigation.

In a shocking incident, some unknown assailants chopped off a Christian professor's hand in the south Indian city of Kerala on Sunday morning.

"I was in the room playing with my cousin and they called us to come," Delan said. "They cut my cousin. I was very afraid. I was crying and crying. My mother is very fat; I knew if I could run she could not catch me, but she held me too strong. I could not get away.

Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated roadside bombs that killed eight people, including one civilian, in two separate attacks in Thailand's restive south, police said Friday.

Psychological violence is now a criminal offense in France, but some judges say the new law may be difficult to enforce and prosecute.

"It's getting worse and worse," Hood said. "All we get from the Police Department is, 'Stay in your house.' We will stay in our house, but we should haven't to."

excerpt: ''Over the phone, Krystal has a calm and lilting Southern accent. She identifies as a woman now, but when she entered Louisiana's juvenile justice system at 12 years of age, she presented herself as a boy and used male pronouns.

WWII Vet, Walter Hughes, 89 Beaten Down in the Street by a Drunk Woman It is alleged that Ms Hegarty, 34, in an unprovoked attack, repeatedly punched and kicked her frail victim as he lay on the ground. He died later that day.

California and six other states are hoping to prohibit the sale to minors of violent video games that show images of humans being maimed, killed or sexually assaulted -- and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the states will be able to regulate the sale.

"The people of South Sudan have a right to secede from the north, should they chose to do so in a referendum early next year. They also have a right to a peaceful government respectful of human rights -- one which they seem increasingly less likely to inherit.

Egypt is stepping up security on its border with the Gaza Strip after earth moving equipment came under fire from the Palestinian side for three days, a security source said on Saturday.

As violence against women in Pakistan continues to grow, every new incident is eerily reminiscent of an earlier event that was equally if not more shocking. Two reports from Punjab on Monday are a blot on society's collective conscience.

A study of schoolchildren in Glasgow, Scotland, revealed some extremely disturbing findings: violence against women was perceived as justifiable if there was a "reason" behind it (anything from having an affair to being late making tea).