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Month: February 2022

Jewish and Japanese American groups among growing multiracial effort calling for reparations for Black Americans

Maya Brown, CNN As a third-generation Japanese American, Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka remembers the fight for reparations during the Japanese redress movement in the 1970’s. Black leaders in the civil rights movement were among the effort’s biggest supporters, she says. Masaoka said winning reparations gave the Japanese American community strength, a chance to stand up and

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy makes a statement in Kyiv on Friday.

How Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky went from star satirical TV actor to the Kremlin’s ‘target number one’

By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Volodymyr Zelensky approached a lectern under bright lights, preparing to deliver a message to the Ukrainian people. “Today I will start with long-awaited words, which I wish to announce with pride,” he said. “Finally,” he continued. “Ukraine is United … This is our victory.” The speech was fiction. It is from

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