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Istanbul, Turkey — A “freedom convoy for Palestine” is on its way from Istanbul to a United States military base in southern Turkey in solidarity with the people of Gaza as Israel wages war on the besieged enclave. Cars and vans displaying Palestinian and some Turkish flags departed from Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Stadium on Friday […]
Published October 27, 2023 The opening day of the symposium celebrating the landmark work, “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans,” by celebrated historian and Duke faculty emeritus John Hope Franklin, was held, aptly enough, on the campus of North Carolina Central University. The transcendent volume was published in 1947 while Franklin was […]
Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King has been branded a liar by the family of two American hostages who he claims he ‘worked frantically behind the scenes’ to free from Hamas.
By Stephen M. Lepore For Dailymail.Com 02:06 23 Oct 2023, updated 02:53 23 Oct 2023 Natalie Raanan, 17, and her mother Judith Raanan, 59, arrived in Israel on Friday King posted on Instagram last week claiming that he had helped free the women
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September represents International Underground Railroad Month and several Michigan-based institutions, organizations and individuals continue to share the story of abolitionists, slaves and others. “The Underground Railroad was not a physical railroad. It was a network of people across racial identities who helped people fleeing enslavement,” the Michigan’s History Center writes on its website. Canada, where […]
The 2024 Secretary of Defense Freedom Award nomination season opens soon, meaning Guard and Reserve servicemembers across the nation can submit their exceptional employers for national recognition beginning October 1 until December 31. Nominations for the Freedom Award must come from a Guard or Reserve servicemember, or their family members, employed by the organization they […]
Review of Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair L. M. Kelley (Liveright, 2023). When sixteen-year-old Minnie Savage boarded a train from Lee Mont, Virginia, to Philadelphia in 1918 with nothing more than a sandwich, she told no one of her plans. The promise of jobs and opportunity in the North […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — For 45 years, Historic Columbia has worked to highlight Black culture through its annual Jubilee Festival. “It’s my favorite holiday. … For the freedom of Black people,” Marley Green said. It’s a chance to sing songs of the past, share recipes of yesterday, and spread knowledge with future generations. “Celebrate being Black, […]
Despite warming ties between the U.S. and India, an alliance between the two nations still remains off the table, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. India is a “very independent” country, and the traditional alliance relationship the U.S. has with other countries “creates an almost unexpectable level of deference on the part of the […]