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Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story

… and immigrants at the turn of the century, police brutality plagued cities as well. Newspapers noted the frequency with … a stolen car on foot. Black leaders in Memphis, a city long plagued by police brutality, called for a boycott on white …
The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.

A Postcard from Leith, Scotland

… Leith also became the entrance for substances that would plague Scotland to this day. The first recorded opioids in …
Chinese women putting up posters on a wall

Modern China and Its Institutions

Review of Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping, by Klaus Mühlhahn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019)
… and uncritical truisms of Chinese history, which sometimes plagues other historical works on the country. Deng Xiaoping …

The Year of Africa

… exploitation of Congolese resources by Western powers plagued and plague the nation to this day. This copper mine in the …