From a new Brookings Institute analysis by fellow Jonathan Rothwell released yesterday.

Above: Tear gas rains down on a woman kneeling in the street after a demonstration in Ferguson on August 17.
Americans are so accustomed to speaking about civil rights as an historical era

General view of the Island of Gorée, Senegal, which was from the 15th to the 19th century, the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast.
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First shipment of the ramped-up U.S. military response to Ebola arriving in Liberia. (Credit: US Army Africa/CC-BY-2.0)
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Bill Toledo, Peter MacDonald and George James Sr.—members of the Navajo Code Talkers

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The protests in Ferguson, Missouri mirrored images from the Civil Rights Movement 50 years earlier. But that’s where the similarities ended.