Kurds in the new Syria hope to preserve cultural rights they gained in years of war
Kurds in the new Syria hope to preserve cultural rights they gained in years of war - Kurdish leaders are negotiating with the new authorities in Damascus ...
Post-Assad Syria: How HTS will have to compromise on its orthodoxy for a stable regime
With Islamist HTS consolidating its grip on power,there are fears that it might impose an illiberal constitution or the one ...
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I starred in a Super Bowl ad on Black, Jewish partnership. But Israel divided us. | Opinion
Decades of 24/7 African American support wasn’t sufficient to many Jewish organizations and leaders. Now, to be authentic if you were a Black leader, your support in the Black-Jewish coalition is only ...
Did You Know That White Supremacists Overthrew A Thriving Black-Led City In North Carolina?
On November 10, 1898, white supremacists led the only successful U.S. coup, overthrowing Wilmington’s Black-led government in the ‘Wilmington Massacre.’ Its full toll and legacy remain unknown.
This Fort Worth native joined about 90 African Americans who fought in Spain’s civil war
Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...
New Black history exhibit on Civil War era opens at Riley Museum
Library events: Leon County celebrates Black History Month with library events, resources ...
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Harriet Tubman led Civil War military raids as well as her better-known slave rescues
While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...
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Little is known about early days of Blacks in Ripon
Americans have celebrated Black History Month each February. This week, explore the history of Ripon’s early African-American ...
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
Myanmar civil war: 4 years on, drone killings & abduction of civilians still rising as military faces setbacks
The number of mass killings of civilians via airstrikes, drone attacks, shelling, missile attacks, and through landmines and ...
In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich region is left in limbo
Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.