Human Rights Watch went to the Texas-Mexico border to see Operation Lone Star, Texas’ border deterrence program, in action.

We witnessed horrific human rights abuses.

Today, Gov. Abbott is in Eagle Pass w/ other far-right governors promoting Op. Lone Star

I was there last week for Human Rights Watch & saw asylum-seekers — incl. at least 4 babies — trapped on the TX side of the river under razor wire. National Guard and DPS agents refused them water. 🧵1/10

The three survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will have their case heard by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. 

The survivors are entitled to justice.

BREAKING: Kids incarcerated at Louisiana's Angola prison say they were locked in windowless cells with no air-conditioning for nearly 24 hours a day this month, as heat indexes in the area topped 133 degrees. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg has the story. theappeal.org/angola-prison-…

Read this thread! This is an extremely disturbing trend, especially with the impending implementation of CARE Court and the likely passage of SB43. Involuntary 'treatment' is re-emerging (not that it ever left) as a major form of social control and criminalization.

After waiting 102 years for justice, three survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre just received the news that their reparations case was dismissed.

The massacre, led by an angry white mob, left hundreds of Black people dead and destroyed more than 1200 homes.

Biden Made A Big Promise On The Death Penalty — But He Hasn’t Delivered. huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide… HuffPost Jessica Schulberg President Biden Jessica Brand @wrencollective

A win for voting rights in the United States! The Supreme Court's ruling in Moore v. Harper is crucial in protecting the rights of all voters, including against discrimination based on race and religion.

Read HRW’s amicus brief in the case here: hrw.org/news/2022/12/0…

Juneteenth is a great time to uphold pro-democracy values, protect rights to accurate information and education, and grapple with US racism and the legacy of slavery. Read about the freedom to learn: freedomtolearn.net #FreedomToLearn

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the last deportation from Chagos.

From 1967 to 1973, the United Kingdom and United States forcibly removed all Chagossians from their islands.

Chagossians have not been allowed to return home since.

US Supreme Court Rejects Alabama’s Discriminatory Voting Map trib.al/7g8fzpm

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‘I’ve never seen so much vitriol’: activist Paul Boden on America’s homelessness crisis
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In the span of about 24 hours between May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob descended on Greenwood, a successful black economic hub in Tulsa, Oklahoma, then-known as “Black Wall Street,” and burned it to the ground.

No one has ever been held responsible.

FROM BIRTH TO DEATH: I spent the past year exploring how the legacy of racism in America has laid the foundation for the health inequities Black people face from their first breath to their final moments.

Five stories. Five families and communities.

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On this day in 1970, police opened fire on a crowd of students at Jackson State College in Mississippi, killing two students and injuring dozens more. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

People come to the U.S. for more for more opportunity, certainly.

But they also leave their homes because they have no choice.

Destabilizing U.S. policies don't help. It's past time to end Trump-era policies that help force people leave home.

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BREAKING NEWS: Norberto Peets was just exonerated in the Bronx, New York after 26 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
“Sometimes, I never thought I would see this day. But I knew I had to keep going, and I did.”

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Monday at 7pm, I’ll join Rio Grande Valley-based community organization La Unión del Pueblo Entero and Austin groups at this vigil at the TX Capitol.

The vigil will honor the lives of the people who were killed in Brownsville today and call for end to policies that dehumanize migrants.

Jordan Neely was the latest victim of an alarming rise in vigilantism, encouraged by policies embracing the idea that people without homes + living with mental health conditions, especially if they are Black, need to disappear.