As Trump Slashes Federal Jobs, Alabama’s ‘Rocket City’ Braces for Impact
In Huntsville, a city fueled by defense and aerospace, there is anxiety but also cautious optimism that federal investment ...
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Syria’s mass graves: accounting for dead is crucial for the nation to heal
By Stefan Schmitt Shortly after the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria in December 2024, reports emerged of mass graves being ...
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH | Horrors and hope: Awareness of Selma brutality led to voting rights laws 60 years ago
As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn't blind to the fact racism existed. But he also knew freedom ...
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How the final shots of the Civil War came to be fired off the shores of Alaska
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...
UN News Centre11h
Sudan, ‘the most devastating humanitarian and displacement crises in the world’
Sudan’s ruinous civil war is approaching its third year, leaving a legacy of malnutrition, massive population displacement ...
Florida Political Review12h
The End of an Era: How the Fall of Assad’s Regime in Syria Will Reshape Global Politics
By the end of 2011, the Syrian Civil War had started, becoming a long-standing symbol of conflict in the Middle East.
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Marching for justice: John Lewis's journey as a civil rights icon
He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from Fort Campbell schools
At Fort Campbell, books are being taken off school library shelves containing references to slavery; the Civil Rights ...