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… open things up for discussion. If you're interested in asking a question, please write it in the Q&A function at the … for me, as far as this project goes, I want to start with Martin Delany. The title of my submission is, "Martin Delany: Unapologetic African." And the reason why I …

… voting rights act. This had been precisely the intent of Martin Luther King, Jr., who had lobbying Johnson for support for a voting …

… Court, and of course pressure from the NAACP and from Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Movement. The towering landmarks of the …

… historically unified half of the country, while also blocking it from accessing the Red Sea, struck a nerve among a … protests took pause. Among the unintended casualties in the assassination attempt was ‘Abd al-Aziz ‘Abd al-Ghani, one of … the 1930s when Imam Yahya, the ruler of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of North Yemen, financed a study abroad program for …

… On March 1, 1887, Russian police foiled an assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander III.  Three young … who stopped "The Second the First of March" from taking place.  Alexander III escaped unharmed, and on May 8, … that could withstand state repression while leading the working class in revolution.  But, seeing in Lenin's …

… lands. Since the twelfth century C.E. Christian Ethiopian kings have warned Muslim Egyptian sultans of their power to … regular patterns, increasing between May 17 and July 6, peaking in September, and then receding until the next year. … Egypt and Ethiopia was institutionalized when the Aksumite King Ezana converted to Christianity in 330 C.E. For 16 …

… have been unheard of among most evangelicals. Consider that Martin Luther and John Calvin, the two most influential leaders of … and the pope at the center of the resistance to God’s kingdom. Carl McIntire, one of the most outspoken …

… or Roman Catholics settle amongst us; whether subjects of Kings, or citizens of free States . . .  they will find it … and self-rule — that the act was based on.  And in our time Martin Luther King would refer to these same principles to advance …

… policies that have long exposed young and poor/working-class communities to violence and human rights abuses. … up against local governments to demand better living and working conditions. Armed with machetes, sticks, and rocks, the … de Brazos Caídos (Fallen Arms Strike). Workers stopped working, and teachers and students stayed home from school …

… Whether Barack Obama or John McCain finds himself taking the oath of office on January 20, he won’t be the first … past, faced a situation closer to today’s mess: forgotten Martin Van Buren. When Martin Van Buren placed his hand on the Bible on March 4, …

… Black America.” The Black Panther himself is T’challa, the king of Wakanda, a mythical African nation that also happens … he was influenced in part by his trip to Lesotho. The small kingdom, surrounded on all sides by South Africa, avoided … death. Lee and Kirby had both served in World War II. Working in 1966 they were steeped in the science and technology …

… war in the Gulf A soldier named Tim McVeigh . . . ―Charlie King, The War is Coming Home , 1996 On April 19, 1995, a … carried out by a U.S. citizen on American soil. Charlie King’s antiwar anthem highlighted the connections between … called for undermining the state through bombings and assassinations. Over the next decade, they engaged in Turner …

… cooperation in foreign and defense policy.   Working with the governments in Great Britain, Australia, New … Canadian nationalists, most of whom lived in French-speaking Quebec and had no familial ties to Britain, were … centrist Liberal prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, denounced the ambassador’s ideas. Ottawa made its own …

… have the time to examine and address: charges of trafficking against communist Cuba, for example, or the long … War and Japan in the aftermath of the Opium Wars.   Miriam Kingsberg Kadia  I think it's also really important to note … than we are. And we really need to spend some time  unpacking the biases that come into these terms, particularly in …

… as a horse race, with Polk (second from left) shown as a bucking horse. Most observers expected former President Martin Van Buren to earn the Democratic nomination in 1844, … widespread unrest triggered by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy (who had been running for the …

… status, imperial ambition, and military might. When Hittite kings displayed lions, tigers, wolves, leopards and bears; … from faraway lands appeared luxurious and spectacular. No king would be worthy of his crown without an elephant or a … gave sixty parrots and a macaw to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, setting a precedent for stocking European …

… issued a gag order preventing Drake officials from speaking about the subpoena. When word of this order spread, … War I. Other “scares” followed. From 1938 to 1945 Rep. Martin Dies of Texas, no defender of civil liberties, … communists were behind the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam war protesters. With …

… to life in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom—and shows how they helped shape the postwar world by … acculturation. The stories Judd tells are at once heartbreaking and restorative, and she vividly captures how the … to life in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and shows how they helped shape the postwar world …

… down segregation laws. Another two years and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., had emerged as a civil rights leader through the …

… did the most important court in England, the London-based King’s Bench, shut down completely in 1348 but in some … super-companies that were prominent moneylenders to the kings of Europe collapsed entirely. By some estimates, the … offices began meeting in alternate locations. While the King’s Bench in the capital did cease operations, those in …

… Dawn Staley tweeted, "More senselessness. Video is heartbreaking. How many more mothers will have to bury their sons and … into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In honor of the occasion, Martin Luther King, Jr. , noted his accomplishments in …

… hope for freedom has been embodied in that brave woman. Thinking that more than a decade of house arrest had ended Suu … is co-editor of the first two volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King and a writer for the History News Service. … …

… most of the news media covering the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and other black men doesn't usually … the interests of capital. So anyone who was you know, striking or protesting or advocating radical political ideas, … the exception of the riots that took place after Martin Luther King's assassination. Most of the riots that took …

… government consisting of both Shi'is and Sunnis, thereby making a deliberate effort to draw support from the Sunni … history) by Balami.   The defining crisis stemmed from the assassination of Ali (r. 656-661), son-in-law of the Prophet … father’s death 19 years later. Yazid proclaimed himself a king of the new Islamic empire by virtue of family ties. And …