hunger strike
Do Black Lives Matter?
June 1, 2015
by Heather Robinson
Simon Deng on Day 18 of Hunger Strike to Save South Sudan
He is a free man now, and he’s determined to use that freedom to stir President Obama to “save the lives of untold millions of Africans” who are in danger of dying in Southern...
Hunger Striker Finishes Day 15 to Save South Sudan
May 29, 2015
by Heather Robinson
Simon Deng, escaped slave and human rights activist, is finishing Day 15 of his hunger strike to save South Sudan.
“I’m feeling all right; the body is not here but the spirit is strong,” he told me today.
Deng, 55, has not...