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The U.S. finally condemns Turkey for the Armenian Genocide

4 days ago
6 min

The U.S. finally condemns Turkey for the Armenian Genocide

The picture that accompanies this article shows the headlines that was in the New York Times newspaper on April 26, 1915. Read the blog to see how the massacre actually happened, but we will start first with the U.S. recognition that the massacre did actually happen. The United States recognizes the Armenian Genocide through two congressional resolutions: one passed by the House of Representatives and the other by the Senate in the United States Congress. The House of Represe

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"Son, daughter, and son-in-law all died in honor killings a decade apart."

Jun 10
4 min

"Son, daughter, and son-in-law all died in honor killings a decade apart."

That was the headline of a story in the Jerusalem Post a few days ago, May 24, 2021, to be exact. To summarize, the son, a 47-year-old filmmaker, is thought to have been murdered after arguing with his father over his unmarried status. Three years earlier, they had killed their daughter because she had posted a video on social media with a man to whom she was soon to be engaged. As for the son-in-law, the parents claimed at their trial that they had killed him a decade prior

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The Yellow Badge

Jun 4
3 min

The Yellow Badge

The image you see above is entitled “Yellow star from occupied France” and is a photograph taken by Olve Utne (CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=822921). The yellow star is a cloth patch that, up close, appears to have been cut off some garment or article of clothes. The word in the center of the patch, “Juif,” is a Jewish word in French for a Jewish male. The history behind this yellow badge (or patch) starts with the German occupation of France d

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