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… Trump’s failure to immediately condemn the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis following the events in Charlottesville, VA by … elections that fall, which led to federal occupation of the South and measures to allow black voting rights. 3. Colfax … and killed roughly 60 black Wilmingtonians. Over 2,100 African-Americans left the city during the carnage and did …

… States is delivered by winter storms from the Pacific, and over the past year, those storms were largely blocked by … of California is in severe to exceptional drought. The southwestern states are also experiencing moderate to severe … 25 percent of normal for late January. Elsewhere in the Southwest, Lake Powell, the largest reservoir on the …

… The issues of race and racism remain as urgent as ever to our national … mid-17th Century, however, colonial leaders had relegated Africans alone to a status of permanent slavery. In order to … principal legacy of the institution of slavery, North and South was the persistence in the belief in of white …

… about efforts across the United States to draw new state and federal legislative districts following the 2010 Census. … not just in the mostly one-party, racially segregated South of that day. Many of the states of the North and West … a redistricting scheme that seriously under-represented African-American residents' voting power, the Court would …

… The specter of Watergate has hovered over the Clinton scandal. Yet overlooked in the stampede to compare Bill … of the Radical Republicans, who wanted to reconstruct the South by making African Americans citizens and creating an interracial …

… in the United States can explain the neglect of this landmark law. The American Revolution had provided the … compelled to check the felonious dispatch of slaves to the South. The successes of these measures removed the incubus … slaves to liberate themselves by escaping to the North. New African-American churches, schools and mutual help …

… A group of African-Americans is demanding in federal court in New York that the United States … a social fund to improve health, education and housing for African-Americans.   But this is a weak argument because it …

… Upon the Altar of the Nation is a provocative and disturbing moral history of the Civil War. It is not a … conduct. From the outset religious leaders in the North and South helped shape the conduct of the war by imbuing their … of Southern cities. Stout only briefly mentions the rape of African American women and the execution of African American …

… decision at the time. Many decried it as judicial overreach and resisted its implementation for decades. The case that … European indentured servants as their primary labor to African slaves. As these two labor pools worked alongside … despite the undeniable evidence of interracial offspring on Southern plantations resulting from slave owners forcing …

… of the on-going American military commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan has combined with memories of Vietnam and … governments in Laos, Cambodia and—most pivotally—South Vietnam, where they continued to exercise a large … the dissolution of the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa and Asia. Communist-supported guerrilla insurgencies …

… November 4, 2008, after months of hard-hitting campaigning and nationwide discussions on the need for change, the United States elected an African American for President.  The campaign and subsequent … city at a moment when civil rights was viewed largely as a Southern issue.  Although he was not a well-known leader of …

… Party’s nomination for president. Fulani’s announcement and Buchanan’s acceptance of her endorsement has drawn sharp … voters who have seldom seen eye-to-eye in the voting booth: African Americans and working-class whites. While African … in the new territories. Populists in the 1890s brought Southern black and white farmers and laborers together in …

… showcased his Third Reich at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and Jesse Owens’ four gold medals were hailed as a repudiation of Nazi racism. African nations boycotted the 1976 Montreal games over the issue of South Africa’s apartheid policies. The United States and …

… The wars in Vietnam and Iraq differ in major respects, but U.S. policy in both … For that reason, the intervention in Iraq, like that in South Vietnam, seems almost certain to end in failure. … needs; the problem is that so few Iraqis seem to agree. South Vietnam’s governments also had serious problems. The …

… Proclamation, President Obama’s declaration that gay and lesbian Americans deserve a right to marry is a historic … of white Northerners (and perhaps more than a few white Southerners) on slavery. Northerners understood that the … no practical authority. At this time he still encouraged African-American emigration to Liberia. Nevertheless, the …

… era of women's activism, the Women's Movement of the 1960s and 70s. In the wake of World War II, the revived women's … vital roles in the war effort. Men of Color, including African Americans, Latinos, Chicanos, and Japanese men, … that not only were the women in the Latino and Chicano and African American communities less willing to return to the …

… Though restaurants and their customers use such words as “traditional,” … from the distinct culinary traditions of the people of the Southwest whose desire for dishes like chili and tacos … avocados are a global conflict commodity comparable to Africa’s so-called blood diamonds. Regional Mexican Fare: …

… Which Martin Luther King Jr., will we honor this year?  The Southerner who broke the back of legalized segregation?  Or … what he called “the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism” throughout the nation, North and South? Unless we give both sides their full due, we will be …

… April 4, 1968, at 6:01 pm, James Earl Ray, a white drifter and petty criminal, raised a bathroom window at the rear of Bessie Brewer’s Rooming House on South Main Street in Memphis, TN and aimed a Remington Model … and small, stretching from the East Coast to the West, African Americans poured into the streets to vent their …

… were alive to give you wise counsel, now that your candidacy for the Democratic Party’s nomination is official. … He realized that if he were to become the city’s first African American elected mayor he would need a ground swell … candidates may face at the polls, especially in the South. To reach the most elevated political office in the …

… will erode national sovereignty, usurp domestic courts and end up limiting America’s freedom of action on the … court. There are plenty of recent precedents — from South Korea to Mexico — where former leaders have been … (The Iraqi Governing Council wants to create a South Africa-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address …

… of COVID-19 has been shocking—in terms of global spread and relatively high lethality—but it is hardly the first … by 1833, the disease crossed the Atlantic to both North and South America. Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes … Asia, the Pacific and beginning in 1970 spread across Africa. More recently still, localized epidemics broke out …

… From Plague to Influenza and HIV, learn about the history of global pandemics in … associate professor in the department and I specialize in African and Indian Ocean history and the history of HIV … the Black Sea in the late 1340s, where it spread as far as southern England in one year. Traditionally it has been …