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NEW HAVEN — LAST week, a milestone passed for my family in South Carolina — the 150th anniversary of the last day of slavery. We were the slaveholders.
NEW HAVEN — LAST week, a milestone passed for my family in South Carolina — the 150th anniversary of the last day of slavery. We were the slaveholders.
Alexis Tsipras during a parliamentary session for the creation of a committee for claiming war reparations. Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters
he White House on Monday announced the imposition of new sanctions on various Venezuelan officials, pronouncing itself “deeply concerned by the Venezuelan government’s efforts to escalate intimidation of its political opponents”…
Facebook can be a weird place on Martin Luther King Day. Some of my friends post famous passages from MLK’s speeches.
Yesterday, a few days after the US Department of Justice issued a report on the injustice in the Ferguson police department and court system, a judge at the center of the controversy was forced to resign.
Yesterday, Barack Obama sent a letter to Congress announcing that he was applying the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to Venezuela…
In America the concept of reparations for slavery is generally thought to have originated during the Civil War era…
Jail is not supposed to be where you put the mentally ill or those too poor to pay bail.
On March 7, 1965, protesters marched along Alabama’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on a mission led by Martin Luther King Jr. and guided by his goal to achieve fair voting rights.
I’ve been in transit or offline all of today and didn’t see President Obama’s Selma speech in real time.
The Internet is such a part of everyday life that many people don’t notice how much they rely on it. Those Skype calls to faraway relatives?