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… ongoing conflict, with millions more threatened by disease and famine. Yet for many in the West, Yemen remains a … Iran, and have used this as a cover to stake our claims in south Arabia, claims related to oil and other territorial … really was both in Yemen and across the Middle East, North Africa is that if you dismantle the one party dictatorship …

… How we understand policing in the United States depends not only on what … definitely a pleasure. I am Marcus Nevius, PhD candidate in African American history here at The Ohio State University. … patrols that were very common in the antebellum American South. And we know also that policing of racialized groups, …

… Suppose an African American goes to the polls on Election Day. Although … workers turn her away. "You're black," they tell her, "and blacks can't vote." The following year, the same voter … black freedoms — especially the right to vote. "The whole South is in the hands of the very men that held us as …

… Du Bois. Although he died more than 50 years ago, his life and work command more attention now than ever before. Many … first page of Du Bois' dissertation "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the United States: 1638–1871" ( left … who had killed his employer in an act of self-defense just southwest of Atlanta, caused Du Bois to think about …

… many of the tributes referred to him as “America’s Pastor”—and as the person who had preached the Christian gospel to … until the 1990s) across the United States and in Europe, Africa, and Asia. In 1973, Graham preached the gospel to one … the largest live crowds ever, 1.1 million people, in Seoul, South Korea. Graham once said that he was “not a great …

… Humans weren’t around when volcanoes formed Iceland’s unique island landscapes some 20 million years ago. … within the last 100 years.  Glacier flowing down Iceland's southern coast;  Volcanic landscape. Recently, the … Katla sits underneath the Mýrdalsjökull glacier in the south and will trigger massive flooding when it resumes …

… over the last several months, warning of labor shortages and a migration crisis . Despite an abundance of job … numbers of migrants have arrived to the United States’ southern border , the vast majority of whom are prevented … for laborers and looked to eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa in order to solicit their best and brightest. …

… in by condemning such actions, the focus dramatically expanded to questions of free speech, patriotism, and … The Ohio State University and a specialist in 20th century African American history.   Dr. Hasan Jeffries   Hi. Good to … intertwined. Looking at, you know, coming out of the south, my father was a big fan of Jim Brown and the Browns …

… 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 …