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A theme of our ongoing coverage of the legal proceedings on Guantanamo Bay is the immense difficulty of prosecuting individuals previously tortured and subjected to incommunicado detention. Indeed, the government may reach plea deals with the five defendants in the Sept. 11 case instead of finishing the critical suppression hearings – which still have several […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation inspired stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace and beauty, will be depicted on a U.S. postage stamp to be issued in January. The stamp will be the 46th in the U.S. Postal Service’s Black […]
Morehouse College is the only all-male historically Black college in the country. A recently published book argues that, as a result, the institution is uniquely affected by, and also perpetuates, specific ideas about what it means to be a Black man in America, including the idea that Black men are “in crisis” and Black male […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 4, 2022) — University of Kentucky Libraries will welcome University of California, Los Angeles Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies Safiya Noble, Ph.D., on Oct. 4, for a discussion of the ways digital media intersect with issues of race, gender, culture, power and technology. Drawing on research from her new […]
CNN — The summer before his junior year in high school, Philip Yancey attended a Fourth of July rally that featured some of the most dangerous racists in America. It was 1964, and the event, billed as “Patriots Rally Against Tyranny,” was held at . . .
When Boyah J. Farah arrived in the United States as a teenager, he expected the country to be paradise. And for a while it was – when he rode his bike down the quiet streets of his Boston-suburb, past smiling neighbors with their perfectly manicured lawns. “I really thought that God favored America,” he said. […]
When Boyah J. Farah arrived in the United States as a teenager, he expected the country to be paradise. And for a while it was – when he rode his bike down the quiet streets of his Boston-suburb, past smiling neighbors with their perfectly manicured lawns. “I really thought that God favored America,” he said. […]
When Boyah J. Farah arrived in the United States as a teenager, he expected the country to be paradise. And for a while it was – when he rode his bike down the quiet streets of his Boston-suburb, past smiling neighbors with their perfectly manicured lawns. “I really thought that God favored America,” he said. […]
With that information in hand LeMay ultimately chose to shift tactics. In an interview the author explained to me how LeMay made that decision: “He has a perfect new weapon (napalm), he’s got a bomber that’s capable of reaching there (the B-29), and he has breakdowns of every Japanese city on where he should target. […]
With that information in hand LeMay ultimately chose to shift tactics. In an interview the author explained to me how LeMay made that decision: “He has a perfect new weapon (napalm), he’s got a bomber that’s capable of reaching there (the B-29), and he has breakdowns of every Japanese city on where he should target. […]