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10 Jun 2019, 7:07 am
The report illustrates the “staggering number” of unlawful deaths and police killings in context of the “war on drugs,” in addition to killings of human rights defenders. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 6:30 am
Such alliances produced abolitionism, the Social Gospel movement, Catholics in the New Deal, the civil rights movement, opposition to the Vietnam war. [read post]
7 Jun 2019, 5:03 am
They were overwhelmingly—but not entirely—the product of elite institutions; unusually, a large minority were women or people of color. [read post]
6 Jun 2019, 7:20 am
The most famous example is, of course, westward migration to the frontier in the nineteenth century, in which millions moved west to settle the vast territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, the Mexican War, and other land acquisitions. [read post]
5 Jun 2019, 7:40 am
In my own life, the social justice movements that shaped me individually and America as a country, which despite our problems remains the envy of the world, are the civil rights movement, the fight for women's liberation, and the mobilization against the Vietnam War. [read post]
4 Jun 2019, 9:30 pm
Or, on the contrary, did they put forward war and violence? [read post]
31 May 2019, 7:37 am
In this way I hoped to build up in the Library of Congress a center of documentation that would be helpful in explaining the “war on the peoples” behind the current European “war on the armies” (Lemkin, 109). [read post]
31 May 2019, 1:01 am
Women, non-white, and non-Western people made vital contributions to the Manhattan Project and the physics underlying it. [read post]
30 May 2019, 9:30 pm
He faced execution if found guilty for his role in levying war against the United States. [read post]
27 May 2019, 8:25 pm
Republicans revere Reagan but he crippled the unions, the organizations of working men and women. [read post]
27 May 2019, 8:30 am
The term has been in use since 1918 when President Wilson took up the suggestion of Women’s Committee of National Defenses to allow mothers who had lost a child in World War I to wear a black armband adorned with a gold star. [read post]
27 May 2019, 6:03 am
Earth may run red with other wars, but they are at peace. [read post]
27 May 2019, 5:54 am
There is also evidence that organized women’s groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, “Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping” by Nella L. [read post]
27 May 2019, 4:59 am
On March 16, 1968, roughly a hundred American soldiers stormed the village of My Lai, killing 504 unarmed civilians, including 17 pregnant women and 56 infants. [read post]
26 May 2019, 11:30 pm
Memorial Day honors the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. [read post]
25 May 2019, 9:38 pm
For decades, the men and women of the U.S. military were at risk of inhaling the toxic fibers. [read post]
24 May 2019, 10:00 am
In the 1970s, when it appeared that the CIA and FBI were spying on civil rights and anti-war organizations, a Senate committee conducted a massive investigation. [read post]
24 May 2019, 8:00 am
The seeming confusion over Memorial Day, especially when we’ve lost almost 7,000 American servicemen and women in the wars we’ve been fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, and against ISIS, for almost two decades, bothers me. [read post]
24 May 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal 9th Circuit Rejects Challenge to Foreign-Donation Ban Politico – Josh Gerstein | Published: 5/16/2019 A federal appeals court rejected a legal challenge to Congress’ ban on most foreign nationals donating to state and local election campaigns. [read post]
23 May 2019, 9:30 am
Appealing for Liberty is the most comprehensive study to give voice to these African Americans, drawing from more than 2,000 suits and from the testimony of more than 4,000 plaintiffs from the Revolutionary era to the Civil War. [read post]
