Campbell, who spent a year at Rikers Island after being convicted of “brawling” at an antifascist protest in 2018, and Shanahan (Captives), who spent 30 days at Rikers after Continue reading ...

The Damascus Affair would transcend local prejudice to ... for their persecuted brethren across borders. Damascus in 1840 existed at a precarious political crossroads. The city had fallen under ...

But his fortunes were undone in 1840 by the family’s association with the suspected murder of a Franciscan monk. Several of Damascus ... them of wrongdoing. The affair was a mortal disgrace ...

spoke Saturday afternoon before his congregation on the protest made by Secretary of State John Forsyth at the instance of President Martin Van Buren on the occasion of the Damascus persecutions ...