The 16 days will run from November 25th to December 10th and will incorporate the following:
November 25th- The International Day Against Violence Against Women
November 29th- International Women Human Rights Defenders Day
December 1st- World Aids Day
December 10th-International Human Rights Day

The mobile home, left, and tool shed at Big Creek, W.Va., where authorities say 20-year-old Charleston, W.Va., resident Megan Williams, a black woman, was allegedly abducted, held captive for at least a week and tortured by six white individuals from Logan County, W.Virginia. Source AP.

Megan Williams is a 20 year old Black woman who [...]

Issues in the Niger Delta
Ifieniya Lott, a women’s rights activist and Patterson Ogon from the Ijaw Council for Human Rights speak to Sokari Ekine of Black Looks about the environmental justice issues people face in the Niger Delta. As the recent elections have been criticised for widespread rigging particularly in the Niger Delta region, this [...]

Professor Ebiegberi Alagoa is Emeritus Professor of History at the Univeristy of Port Harcourt and has published extensively on the Niger Delta. Sokari Ekine of Black Looks interviewed him about the changes that have taken place in the Niger Delta since the excecution of Ken Saro Wiwa in 1995, the rise of militancy in [...]

Ebiegberi Alagoa, a Nigerian Emeritus Professor of History discusses the oil-rich Nigerian Niger-Delta. Part 1.

One of the questions I have been asked many times since leaving South Africa is “are they going to be ready for the World Cup”. My standard refrain is they shouldn’t be hosting the world cup in the first place which like BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) will benefit a small minority with an even [...]

Sokari (Black Looks) presents what it was like earlier today in Atlanta, the host city of 2007 United States Social Forum.
Exhausting day - so much so Robtel and I missed the 8pm showing of the film Bamako at the Africa Tent - I really wanted to see this film but my legs were [...]