MLK in the North: The Civil Rights Leader Understood That Racism and Segregation Were National Problems
Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...
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South Sudan opposition leader Riek Machar detained amid warnings of renewed civil war in world's youngest country
South Sudan's main ... amid warnings of renewed civil war in the world's youngest country. Riek Machar was "in confinement by the government", and his life was "at risk", opposition spokesperson ...
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The world’s youngest country fought for decades to govern itself. Now it’s on the cusp of another civil war
The deal ended a five-year-civil war, which killed an estimated 400,000 people. South Sudan is polarized between the majority Dinka tribe, which Kiir hails from, and Machar’s Nuer ethnic group ...
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South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, UN envoy says
There were high hopes when oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long conflict. But the country slid into a civil war in December 2013 largely based on ethnic ...
The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
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Is South Sudan on the brink of another civil war?
"After years of fragile peace, South Sudan is once again on the brink of civil war," German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock posted on social media. Patrick Oyet, DW correspondent, described the ...
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Fears of civil war in South Sudan stem from political rivalry between the president and his deputy
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar ... to Machar in the start of a civil war that killed an estimated 400,000 ...