Let’s Be Honest, America: Human Rights Are Still On the Line For the last four years the United States has suffered a presidential administration truly extraordinary in its disregard for civil and human rights. As this wearying year draws to a close and Human Rights...
A Review of Who Stole My Bible: Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny by the Rev. Jennifer Butler For those of us who grew up in mostly white Christian churches in the United States—part of a privileged, dominant racial and religious majority, in a...
The Brother of George Floyd Offers Historic Testimony before Global Human Rights Body On Wednesday, three weeks after the killing of George Floyd, his brother riveted the United Nations Human Rights Council with resounding testimony about the grief and anger the...
George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police—the cruel, unjustified killing of yet another Black man by White officers charged to protect and serve—is a mournful window into America’s shameful human rights crisis. If the inherent right to life venerated in...
In This Together The Human Right to Health Care in the Time of COVID-19 Several weeks ago, World Health Organization officials finally named the global transmission of the novel corona virus with a powerful word previously avoided: pandemic. Cases of COVID-19, the...
