Jan
16
2013
The horrifying, little-known story of how hundreds of thousands of blacks worked in brutal bondage right up to the middle of the 20th century.
January 15, 2013 |
On July 31, 1903, a letter addressed to President Theodore Roosevelt arrived at the White House. It had been mailed from the town of Bainbridge, Georgia, the prosperous seat of a cotton county perched on the Florida state line.
The sender was a barely literate African American …
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Jan
16
2013
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Jan
16
2013
Several months ahead of national elections in Pakistan, a mass protest calling on the government to resign has taken hold of Islamabad. Tens of thousands of Pakistanis have been camping outside Parliament in the capital, led by a Canadian Pakistani cleric named Muhammad Tahrir-ul-Qadri.
Mr. Qadri specifically called on Pakistan’s Parliament to be dissolved by a deadline that passed on …
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Jan
16
2013
Teachers at two Seattle Washington High Schools last week refused to administer the standardized, district-required Measure of Academic Progress, or MAP test, claiming that it is unfair to students and a waste of “dwindling school resources.”
Spurred by the district’s decision to use the exam as a way to evaluate instructors, the boycott began as teachers from both schools railed …
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Jan
16
2013
Record shattering weather events are becoming more and more commonplace around the planet. According to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration 2012 will go down as one of the ten hottest years on record since weather tracking began in 1880. Heat waves like the one recently seen in Australia, where temperatures reached 105 degrees Fahrenheit, have set off massive wildfires. …
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Jan
16
2013
“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” — Max Planck
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Jan
16
2013
GENEVA — The chief human rights official at the United Nations, Navi Pillay, called on Monday for an international inquiry into human rights offenses committed by the North Korean government over many decades. Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, called for an international inquiry into human rights offenses committed by North Korea.
Ms. Pillay, the Geneva-based high commissioner for human rights, pointed to North Korea’s “elaborate network of political prison camps,” …
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Jan
15
2013
We’ll take a look at what’s unfolding in Pakistan as tens of thousands of protesters camp out in Islamabad calling for revolution. And, teachers in Seattle launch a boycott of federal tests in schools. Plus, a new report shows how mainstream media’s coverage of climate change is dramatically waning even as the real effects of global warming are more apparent than ever. …
Jan
15
2013
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …
Jan
15
2013
As President Barack Obama gets ready on Wednesday to spell out White House proposals to curb gun violence, three new national polls indicate a majority of Americans support most gun control measures.
But they are divided by political party, gender, age, race and education over some of the proposals.
The polls released this week came one month after a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
The tragedy seemed to …
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