(Please scroll down to find links on topics including Leadership,  Institutional racism,  Ku Klux Klan,  Pit bulls & the black community,  Slavery & resistance,  Environmental justice,  African animal advocates,  Africa Network for Animal Welfare,  and Integration era.)

 

Leadership

• What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

• A black-and-white issue that the humane community has yet to face

• Four black leaders who built the humane movement

• Dick Gregory, 50 years a vegan activist, dies at 84

 

Institutional racism

• Galveston mock lynching may hasten police horse era to an end

• How Standing Rock 2016 echoes Birmingham 1963

• Pooped on for profit: pigs, chickens, & people in North Carolina

• When dogs mauled children outside the White House

• Echoes of the Old South in pigeon-shooting lawyer’s promotion to judge

 

Ku Klux Klan

• Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?

• Why mass shooters sometimes sound like conservationists

• Cockfighters “win” from delay of hurricane aid to Puerto Rico

• “Dog Fighting Awareness”: what the ASPCA ignored

• What was No Kill Nation founder Debi Day doing in Charlottesville?

• End of Debi Day for Nathan Winograd follows Charlottesville debacle

 

Pit bulls & the black community

• Pit bull advocates owe Michael Vick bigtime, at victims’ expense

• Bad dogs & minority communities

• Pit bulls, “bullying & backlash,” & who is really threatening whom

• Alabama mauling: “Emily’s Law” fails to protect public from pit bulls

• Four-year-old killed by pit bulls because Miami-Dade law was not enforced

 

Slavery & resistance

• Hurricane Dorian helps to solve the mystery of the extinct Abaco wild horses

• Why the Second Amendment does not protect hunting animals

• SHARK fights pigeon shooters where black man was hunted for sport

Environmental justice

• Film “Indian Point” shows how nukes hit river life

African animal advocates

• What Kenya’s wildlife needs most is water––not “fake news”

• $10 billion from China buys big changes in Kenya wildlife tourism

• Trophy hunting scheme & Chinese-built railway fire debate in Kenya

• “Kenya’s wildlife should remain in the wild” –– Sidney Quntai, 57

• South Sudan bans hunting; follows Kenya, with Chinese support

• Drought-driven land invasions hit Kenya wildlife conservancies

• Kenya crisis shows need to transition out of animal agriculture

• Kenyans rise in protest over lions shot & speared

• Fighting rabies panic & dog poisoning in Kenya

• Will Nairobi shoot dogs, vaccinate them, or serve them for dinner?

• Botswana,  please rethink resuming hunting! by Sebastian Mwanza

Africa Network for Animal Welfare

• The untold story of the conflict in Laikipia, Kenya by Sebastian Mwanza

• Desnaring in Kenya with ANAW and China House

• World Animal Day in Nairobi, Kenya

• Kenya adds humane education curriculum

• South Sudan bans hunting; but will the ban last? by Sebastian Mwanza

Integration era

•  Time Is Short And The Water Rises