One of the last relics of ‘lost cause’ ideology is being removed as a federal panel renames US military bases that honor Confederate generals.
Scott Jenkins, sheriff of Culpeper County, Va., is one of a large number of so-called ‘constitutional sheriffs’ in the U.S.
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A significant number of county sheriffs across the US have a particular – and false – view of their role in defending Americans’ constitutional rights.
Ukrainian refugees wait near the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Four scholars of race, religion and immigration explain how US refugee and asylum policy has long been racially and religiously discriminatory in practice.
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs attends the Celebration of Black Cinema on Dec. 2, 2019, in Los Angeles.
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With a few notable exceptions, public monuments across the United States are overwhelmingly white and male. A movement is slowly growing to tell a more inclusive history of the American experience.
Fela Kuti’s Mr Follow Follow is the b-side of his album, Zombie.
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Recent social unrest across the country protesting the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the police chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York has reopened wounds and revealed deeply…
Customers queued to withdraw money as fears spread.
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Over the past two weeks, two of Bulgaria’s largest financial institutions have experienced bank runs. This triggered memories of the banking crisis in 1996-97 when one-third of the banks in this emerging…