How Newspapers Struggled to Cover Segregation in the North
Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.
10 Questions About the Vietnam War, Answered
The Vietnam War was a highly controversial conflict. We break down some of the most common questions about the war.
MLK in the North: The Civil Rights Leader Understood That Racism and Segregation Were National Problems
Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...
Ethiopia’s civil war: what’s behind the Amhara rebellion?
The Fano insurgency is taking place in a territory three times the size of Tigray, stretching the army’s resources.
FDD's Long War Journal2d
Sudanese Armed Forces retake Khartoum from Rapid Support Forces
The Sudanese Armed Forces announced the recapture of Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after nearly two years of ...
Dangerous Learning: The Story Of The Struggle For Black Literacy
In his new book, "Dangerous Learning," legal scholar Derek Black tells the story of the resistance to Black literacy in this ...
Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is misdescribed as 'concentration camp'
The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...
The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
A behind-the-scenes look at the 2 weeks leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter: Part 1
Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.
North Carolina judge challenging outcome of race wore Confederate uniform in college photo
A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb ...
The Forward7d
Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
PBS23d
Ugandan special forces deploy to South Sudan to protect government as civil war fears grow
The latest tensions stem from fighting in the country’s north between government ... remain steadfast in the path of peace.” Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between ...