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AJ+ is a unique digital news and storytelling project promoting human rights and equality, holding power to account, and amplifying the voices of the powerless.

Washington, DC

Joined February 2010

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Hey Trump, tell me you don’t want Senegal to win without telling me you don’t want Senegal to win.
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Zidane, Mbappe, Özil. For these footballers, the 90 seconds before a match was always about more than just a national anthem – it’s about identity and belonging. But in a moment of hyper nationalism, what expectations are piled onto these athletes? @sakhr breaks it down.
Colonial Wars Played On The Pitch
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“Indigenous football is culture.” Meet Mexico’s Indigenous national football team. They’re working to create their own Indigenous national cup – and putting community over money.
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🇬🇧: Keir Starmer has resigned as UK prime minister, leaving behind a legacy of enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Here's some of what Starmer has left in his rearview: increasing arms sales to Israel, sending UK spy planes over Gaza (reason unconfirmed) and banning the group
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While World Cup teams arriving in the U.S. have faced controversial searches, hourslong detentions and visa restrictions … Mexico is being praised for its hospitality and warm atmosphere.
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"She was a flower. She and I used to sleep on the same pillow." Israel killed Palestinian teenager Raghad Ashour as she was on her way to take an exam.
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Albanians tore down a barricade that has barred them from accessing ancestral lands for over 20 years. Thousands more rallied in the capital to oppose Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's planned luxury resort on a nature preserve.
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Five Black American farmworkers are taking a Mississippi farmer to court for paying higher wages to white Afrikaner seasonal workers.
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Ireland and Israel are scheduled to play two football games later this year ... and Irish people are furious. Here are some pics we’ve received of the many protests happening to #StopTheGame ⬇️
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We featured some in this exclusive interview with Irish rap trio @KNEECAPCEOL and their manager on why the games should be canceled:
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Iran vs. Belgium became about much more than football. In Los Angeles, home to the world's largest Iranian diaspora community, fans were divided over what it means to support Iran. @annakook spoke to supporters and protesters outside the stadium.
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The Caribbean island of Barbados – colonized by the British for almost 400 years – just laid out plans for reparations for slavery at a conference in Ghana. Barbados has announced its plans as part of a joint initiative of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which is putting
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Displaced Palestinians are suffering under suffocating heat in plastic tents,and forced to cool off in Gaza’s polluted waters.
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It's Bisan from Gaza. The World Cup is here, but Palestinian footballers are struggling to survive a genocide. Meet the young players still playing between the rubble.
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