Month: March 2019

Palm oil-based biofuels will no longer be permitted in Norway, the nation’s parliament announced last week. The move, which aims to thwart the destruction of Indonesian rainforests razed for palm oil plantations, makes Norway the first country to enforce such a ruling.

Source: Norway Is First Nation to Ban All Palm Oil Based Biofuel to Prevent Rainforest Destruction

Between April 29 and November 6, 1868, tribal leaders from the northern plains came forward to sign a treaty with representatives of the United States government setting aside lands west of the Missouri River for the Sioux and Arapaho tribes. In this written agreement, negotiated at Fort Laramie in what is now Wyoming, the United States guaranteed exclusive tribal occupation of extensive reservation lands, including the Black Hills, sacred to many Native peoples. Within nine years of the treaty’s ratification, Congress seized the Black Hills. By breaking the treaty, the United States initiated a legal battle for ownership of the Black Hills that continues to this day.

Source: The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, Never Honored by the United States, Goes on Public View | Smithsonian Voices | National Museum of the American Indian | Smithsonian

In honor of Black History Month, watch Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle remember Elizabeth Jennings, who desegregated New York’s trolleys 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus. Jennings is a #MonumentalAmerican.

Source: #MonumentalAmerican: Civil Rights activist Elizabeth Jennings

Many African-Americans don’t want to get into farming because of its painful history, but a new generation is making the land their own.

Source: Black Farmers Are Reclaiming The Industry from Racism, Stereotypes and a Difficult Past – VICE Impact

Many African-Americans don’t want to get into farming because of its painful history, but a new generation is making the land their own.

Source: Black Farmers Are Reclaiming The Industry from Racism, Stereotypes and a Difficult Past – VICE Impact

Many African-Americans don’t want to get into farming because of its painful history, but a new generation is making the land their own.

Source: Black Farmers Are Reclaiming The Industry from Racism, Stereotypes and a Difficult Past – VICE Impact

If you still don’t understand why many critics have issues with a Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated movie like Green Book, Seth Meyers is here to explain as the “white savior” of Amber Ruffin’s Late Night with Seth Meyers sketch.

Source: Green Book: Seth Meyers plays every white savior in movies | EW.com

A video of a bizarre altercation in a Massachusetts park seems to show a white woman calling 911 on a black man because his dog ‘aggressively’ humped her dog in a canine courting session gone wrong.

Source: White woman calls the cops on a black man in Massachusetts because his dog aggressively humped hers | Daily Mail Online

Houston, TX — On Friday, TFTP reported that the officers responsible for the public rape of an innocent woman on the side of the road would not be charged. After hearing the news, the attorney for Charnesia Corley announced that they had dash cam video of this sexual assault and they promised to release it.

Source: Horrifying Dash Cam Shows Cops Strip Woman Naked & Rape Her on the Roadside

The role of the Africans in Mexico’s quest to stop three centuries of Spanish rule is a little known story but one that deserves attention.

Source: The African connection to Mexico’s war for independence