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Reporters Without Borders (@rsf_en) is calling for a special independent team to investigate this week’s “shocking murder” of a Pakistani #journalist, saying there is “every reason to doubt” local police claims that it was a so-called honor killing. https://bit.ly/2XdGzZf
No jokes today friends, instead just a list of books by Black authors that I think you should pick up/preorder.
Because the best way to fight white supremacy is to confront it daily. And fiction is excellent at giving us those tools.
News website @openDemocracy reports that the U.S government is funding a website in Armenia that is spreading #coronavirus disinformation. https://bit.ly/3deO9st