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![A federal jury in Florida found that Chiquita Brands must pay $38.3 million to family members of people killed during Colombia’s long civil war by a violent right-wing paramilitary group funded by the company. The verdict on June 10 by a jury in West Palm Beach marks the first time the company has been found liable in any of multiple similar lawsuits pending elsewhere in U.S. courts, lawyers for the plaintiffs said. [ AMY SANCETTA | AP ]](https://williamfelice.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/a-federal-jury-in-florida-found-that-D6TUZUMOTHZSZBPA4AWXWUVSGQ-150x150.jpeg)
What it means that Chiquita was held liable for paramilitary killings
July 13, 2024 10:34 am Leave your thoughts![Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson creates vibrant and colorful objects that incorporate fundamental American ideals, yet question their status for Indigenous peoples and other groups. For example, a work titled “We want to be free” is found in beadwork on a large figure with a striking body of rainbow fringe. In addition to the 1866 Civil Rights Act, Gibson also includes references to the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 that finally granted U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. [ Courtesy of William F. Felice ]](https://williamfelice.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/native-american-artist-jeffrey-gibson-OXYLRJSVG5H4HHZXGFQQA2N4Z4-150x150.jpeg)
Would Florida schools even allow this spectacular art exhibit?
June 18, 2024 10:49 am Leave your thoughts![A lake of meltwater forms on the tongue of the Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, on June 13, 2023. Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported on April 22, 2024, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File) [ MATTHIAS SCHRADER | AP ]](https://williamfelice.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/a-lake-of-meltwater-forms-on-the-tongue-3L56NC3KDN52DMF3ITPY2XDLBY-1-150x150.jpeg)
To fight climate change, the young and the old are leading the way
April 26, 2024 12:46 pm Leave your thoughts![James Baldwin said that reading Charles Dickens “taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had been alive.” [ Associated Press ]](https://williamfelice.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SR3QRVX64NG3ZA6EAWM277IMQA-150x150.jpg)
The ‘liberal’ in liberal education doesn’t mean what many people think
March 25, 2024 9:20 am Leave your thoughts![A dog walks in a yard where items collected for recycling accumulate in La Esperanza neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Feb. 22. An Oxfam report says that "Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship and hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide. At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in 10 years.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) [ RODRIGO ABD | AP ]](https://williamfelice.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/R52DQW7NN2NANHLBTB6ELPCWO4-150x150.jpeg)
Making the global elite squirm at Davos
February 27, 2024 3:46 pm Leave your thoughts![President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks on the radio from the Oval Room of the White House in 1941. During an extraordinary 12 years in office, Roosevelt guided the nation through a bleak period of Depression-era unemployment, a severe Midwest drought known as the Dust Bowl and battle against the Nazis and Japanese in World War II. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin, File) [ HENRY GRIFFIN | AP ]](https://williamfelice.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/N5QUMFMKYNB2ZKASRASKLIPIXY-150x150.jpg)
Here’s how we can protect America’s children and families
January 21, 2024 12:34 pm Leave your thoughts![Eleanor Roosevelt pushed hard for the Declaration of Human Rights. Here she holds a poster of the declaration in English. [Exact date unknown] [ Provided ]](https://williamfelice.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/DDRZH6LFMVCXTOW6WM4I2FXEYM-150x150.jpeg)
The day when human rights went global
December 9, 2023 11:21 am Leave your thoughts![Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering stands in the prisoner's dock at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial in Germany in Nov. 21, 1945. Goering is wearing headphones of the court translating system. [ AP ]](https://williamfelice.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/EMWMNOTYIJHCBKCKUIMAXDCDV4-150x150.jpeg)
As a professor in Florida, here’s what crying in front of my class taught me
November 22, 2023 5:19 pm Leave your thoughts![Gov. Ron DeSantis pictured in April in Jacksonville. He recently exploded at a Black questioner who suggested he and his policies bore some blame for the racist shooting last month in Jacksonville that killed three Black people. [ JAMES GILBERT | Getty Images North America ]](https://williamfelice.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/INWICZL7A5GN6T3AHSNEZAURIY-150x150.jpg)