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An Axios review of a new National Archives portal found just three digitized unsolved cases of lynchings, racial violence and murders of Black Americans, spawning several decades. The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection portal is the federal agency's latest attempt to index civil rights violations and provide a subject guide, part of an aim spelled out by law to bring justice to the victims in those cases.
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On November 10, 1898, white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, massacred upwards of 60 Black people and overthrew the city’s democratically elected government, instigating the only successful coup d’état in United States history. No one was brought to justice for the horrific violence, and over the next century, the event was largely ignored, whitewashed as a “race riot” if it was mentioned at all.
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Missing Pieces Project maps buildings in 189 locations where African American abolitionists spoke against slavery
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Missing Pieces Project maps buildings in 189 locations where African American abolitionists spoke against slavery
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Center was one of the first US schools for formerly enslaved people, and now preserves Gullah Geechee culture
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it intended to launch a formal review of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists destroyed a thriving Black business district and killed hundreds of people in the Oklahoma city.. “It only took 103 years, but this is a joyous occasion," said Damario Solomon-Simmons, the lawyer who filed a lawsuit on behalf of remaining survivors.
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Though so-called bawdy house riots were common in seventeenth-century London, the disorder of 1668 revealed the city’s deep political and religious resentments.
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Sri Lankan authorities are conducting a campaign to deny Hindus and other religious minorities access to places of worship and other property and redesignate locations as Buddhist sites.
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The reality of the court’s decision is that there isn’t a number to quantify Black pain for survivors and their lineage
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Book says one of Australia’s most eminent scientists promoted discussion of eugenics in the 1960s and 70s, but not that he supported racist ideas – and researchers praise his thorough commitment to reconciliation and racial justice.
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En 10 ans à la tête de l’Inde, Narendra Modi a mis en œuvre une politique très hostile aux musulmans, qui constituent quelque 15 % de la population.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, a time filled with uncertainty and fear, ethnically minoritised NHS staff have not only had to contend with the virus but also a workplace fraught with inequalities.
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This online micro-course explores some of the major histories, migrations, artists and activists that have contributed to the presence and survival of Black people in Canada. The course tracks Canada’s evolving relationship to Blackness and Black people, while inviting learners to reflect upon the ways Canadian views of race and multiculturalism have influenced Black communities throughout the country. Four modules for a total of eight hours. Free registration available.
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Started in 1936 by Harlem postman Victor Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guide published over three decades that helped African Americans travel the country safely, and with dignity, during a time of Jim Crow laws and segregation. Presented until 10 March at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles; from 30 March to 23 June 2024 at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta; and from 13 July to 13 October 2024 at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.
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Virtual Exhibit: Started in 1936 by Harlem postman Victor Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guide published over three decades that helped African Americans travel the country safely, and with dignity, during a time of Jim Crow laws and segregation. The Green Book was also an indispensable resource for the era’s successful Black-owned businesses and rising African American middle class.
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La industria petroquímica y de combustibles fósiles en el área de Luisiana conocida como “Corredor del Cáncer” ha devastado la salud, la vida y el medioambiente de quienes residen allí.
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L’industrie des combustibles fossiles et de la pétrochimie dans une zone de Louisiane surnommée « Cancer Alley » (« Allée du cancer »), a dévasté la santé, la vie et l’environnement des habitants.
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The fossil fuel and petrochemical industry in the Louisiana area that has come to be known as “Cancer Alley” has devastated the health, lives, and environment of residents.
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Matter-of-fact accounting of the legal mechanism of slavery provides insight into American history and the country’s fraught present. At a time when many schools across the country grapple with teaching truthful American history, the preservation of precious archival documents can provide a vital lens through which to understand the past and its implications for the present and future.
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In 1976, then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said the then-nascent right-wing movement that pushed Jewish settlers into what was supposed to be Palestinian land was a “cancer” and an “acute danger” to Israel’s democracy. He warned that it would lead to apartheid, a specter raised in later years by his successors Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert.
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