Can it be that the administration is now seeing the horror of President Duterte’s war on drugs? The video message of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Feb. 24 to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) suggested as much, appearing to prove that the Philippines’ legal and judicial systems are working the way they should, cognizant of the principles of accountability vis-à-vis violations of the law and of human rights. Guevarra presented the results of a
There has been much excitement in New York over the recent discoveries of two long-lost paintings of one of America’s great Black painters, Jacob Lawrence. Both paintings are part of a series called “Struggle: From the History of the American People” done between 1954 and 1956. The latest “lost and found” painting, which had been hanging in the living room of a nurse for two decades, is entitled “The Emigrants 1821-1830 (106,308),” referring to a statistic Lawrence dug up while doing research for the “Struggle” series; the 106,308 being the number of immigrants admitted to the States during that decade in
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