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Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to secure bread and flour after the World Food Programme ended monthly assistance to 500,000 people on October 19 due to a funding shortfall, despite acute humanitarian needs.
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“A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it
creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial
problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a
dying civilization.”–Aimé Césaire
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The only Black-owned bookstore in Kansas is fundraising to stay open ksn.com/news/wichita-black-o…
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NFL star Azeez Al-Shaair honored another Palestinian girl today, wearing the name ‘Maryam Ghanem’ on his eye black during the Houston Texans’ game.
Maryam was saved from her burning home a couple days ago after watching both her parents burn to death after an Israeli airstrike.
This marks five consecutive weeks of Al-Shaair using his platform to honor Palestinian children.
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North Carolina university students walked out of classes Thursday, demanding justice for Nolan Wells.
Calls for an independent federal investigation into the 18-year-old Black college student’s death in July have spread from Mississippi to Atlanta, New York, and now HBCUs and other schools across the South, after a Jackson County grand jury declared that it found "no evidence" of a crime and declined to bring charges in September.
Wells’s body was found near Horn Island after a holiday boat trip with white friends. His family says they have received too few answers regarding the circumstances of his death.
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The Ghetto Informant Program:
The Ghetto Informant Program (GIP), *was* a vast surveillance initiative designed to penetrate Black communities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Church Committee Staff Report noted, “Perhaps one of the largest programs was the so-called ghetto informant program.” The numbers alone underscore the scale of state intrusion: “In August 1968, we had 3,248 racial ghetto-type informants… By October we were at 6,000. It reached its peak in 1972 with 7,500 ghetto informants.”
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The median net worth of Black American households declined by 25 percent from 2022 to 2025, according to newly released Federal Reserve data cepr.net/publications/black-…
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Hundreds marched in the streets near New York City’s Union Square on Wednesday night to demand a federal investigation into the death of Nolan Wells, the 18-year-old Black teen from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, whose body was found off Horn Island after a Fourth of July boat trip with a group of mostly white friends who returned without him.
Wells’s family and allies are pushing for answers after a Jackson County grand jury declined to bring charges last month. This week, they released findings from a nearly 300-page forensic report that includes Nolan’s friends’ private Snapchat conversations, intensifying calls for transparency and accountability in his death.
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Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair continues to write the names of Palestinian children killed in Gaza on his game-day eye black, standing by his message despite repeated warnings and fines from the NFL.
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Students in Albania have taken to the streets over education costs, poor university conditions and bleak job prospects, with protests in the capital turning violent as police fire tear gas and water cannons.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world’s most prestigious universities, has removed Haitian linguistics professor Michel DeGraff from his teaching duties after rejecting his proposed course about language, colonialism, and liberation, including discussions about Haiti and Palestine.
DeGraff had worked in MIT’s linguistics department for more than 28 years before being moved to a general faculty position.
The professor believes MIT’s decision was connected to his criticism of Israel and his plans to teach students about Palestine, colonialism, and freedom. He argues that the school is limiting his academic freedom and preventing him from teaching these subjects.
MIT’s reasons for rejecting the course included concerns about its place in the curriculum and other academic issues. However, DeGraff disputes the way the school handled the situation.
In March 2026, DeGraff filed a federal lawsuit against MIT, claiming that the school violated his rights. The case raises questions about academic freedom and whether professors can be punished for the subjects they want to teach.
The court has not yet determined whether MIT unlawfully punished DeGraff because of his opinions.
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ICE Is detaining West African women, some of whom have been in New York for decades, with plans to send them to countries they have no connection to
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Ten years after the Standing Rock protests captured national attention, the tribe is still fighting the project.
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Police clashed with students in Brussels, Belgium, after tens of thousands of trade unionists joined a nationwide strike against austerity measures.
Al Jazeera's Rosie Birchard reports from Brussels.
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NBA player Victor Wembanyama is supporting the student protests in France:
“I'm glad that students and young people are making themselves heard. Because I hear them and I support them, and I hope that the people who are way up there will do the same.”
