The river runs red, the river runs red. No winners or losers when you count the dead. The world has evolved to allow the presence of conflict. It has been a constant throughout all of history and we now accept its eternal immortality. Now, there is such an abundance of…

For many, it’s an established fact that the Indigenous people of the United States and Canada were victims of genocide, but sadly, some people are still in denial. The truth is that white colonizers arrived in the America’s with diseases and weapons that worked simultaneously to eliminate the vast majority…

Every night in India a woman lights a match in one clay lamp. She lights the flame to pray for a long life for her family. I imagine that she has repeated this every night for a very long time, but in May she began to light two lamps every…

It’s easy to deny that an ethnic genocide could ever occur in the 21st century, and it’s common to wonder how something like the Holocaust could have taken place less than 100 years ago. Somehow we have been taught that racism is a thing of the past. However, re-education camps…

Fatima Aldrighetti, Ingrid Escamilla, Jazmín Millán Elenes, Jovana Sarahi Mendoza, Mariana Lima, and Yunuen López Sánchez. These five women are included in the 35,000 murders that occurred in Mexico in 2019. A new record. While writing this piece, I knew that I wanted to mention the names of some of…

Antisemitism isn’t just in history books, you see it more than you think, even now. It’s the villains of your favorite Disney movies, it’s in sayings like “Hip, hip, hooray” and “Long time no see”, or in stereotypes and biases you take to the bank and the voting booth. …