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The Prime Minister of Congo Patrice Lumumba speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter in Washington in July 1960.

How the U.S. issued its first ever order to assassinate a foreign leader

By IBW21Editors' Choice

A snub from the White House, a controversial stay at Blair House, an encounter with Dave Chappelle’s mother and a CIA-arranged tryst — what happened when Congo’s beleaguered leader visited…

October 18, 2023

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President Donald Trump will travel to Mississippi to stump for a candidate who spoke favorably of lynching and voter disenfranchisement.

Trump’s Racism Doesn’t Have To Be A Political Strategy. Sometimes It’s Just Racism.

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

By Ja’han Jones, Huff Post — In 1955, after the nation’s most infamous lynching ― of her son, Emmett ― Mamie Till-Mobley sent a telegram to President Dwight Eisenhower. In…

November 23, 2018

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How the U.S. issued its first ever order to assassinate a foreign leader

Trump’s Racism Doesn’t Have To Be A Political Strategy. Sometimes It’s Just Racism.

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