Talking Rights

With Secretary Clinton’s trip to Africa highlighting the fighting that continues in the Congo, an opinion piece in the Washington Post is calling for American troops to support the tiny UN force.
Michael O’ Hanlon, at Brookings writes:
If the situation is to improve, we need to do the one thing that is required above all others [...]

Jeffrey Gettleman of the New York Times published an excellent piece last Wednesday on the relationship between Rwanda and the Congo, the site of one of the worst human rights situations currently on-going in the world. It’s impossible to understand the Congo without factoring in Rwanda and its own tragic history, most recently on display [...]

I’ve been slow in posting the iTunes videos of the Duke Human Rights Center events. This is a great one, featuring noted historian John Hope Franklin talking with CUNY scholar Lea Wernick Fridman about African-American politician, historian and journalist George Washington Williams.
Williams had a fascinating, complicated life. A Civil War veteran, he fought with Mexican [...]