Joe Penney

The Hunger Strikers of Pine Prairie

Someone seeking refugee status would normally be held for forty-five days, but the African asylum-seekers there have been detained for more than a year.

The Toll on Ferguson’s Activists

The suspicion in the Ferguson activist community “speaks to the level of distrust for law enforcement in many communities in St. Louis,” said ArchCity Defenders director Blake Strode. “It speaks to what many people have experienced themselves with law enforcement, and what they believe law enforcement to be capable of.”

Africa and America’s Endless War

While America is making war in Africa and military engagement morphs into a proxy for foreign policy run by the Pentagon, China is doing business.