First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in US
Johannesburg (NPR): The US government has officially granted 54 Afrikaans South Africans, white descendants of mainly Dutch colonizers, refugee status and they are expected to land in the US on Monday May 12, three sources with knowledge of the matter have told NPR.
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, in jail since 1977, was denied parole this week
Washington (NPR Network): Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has been denied parole.
