Tag: New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker

With hope, inspiration and love, one of San Francisco’s own jewels, Sydney Brown, shares from Washington her view of the possibilities to unfold as the newly inaugurated President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris begin the process to serve all Americans.

A video calling for an Islamic State jihad in the Democratic Republic of the Congo appeared online and in a few news reports last week. It was purportedly made in Beni Territory, within Congo’s North Kivu Province, where a phantom so-called Islamist militia, the Allied Democratic Forces, has been blamed for massacres of the indigenous population that began in October 2014. I asked Boniface Musavuli, a native of Beni and author of “The Massacres of Beni: Kabila, Rwanda, and the Fake Islamists” to help contextualize the so-called news.