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As expected, the alley’s owner turned them away because only whites were admitted.
South Carolina State Stand Unmatched by Any Made on a Field
On New Year’s Day, it will be 150 years since Abraham Lincoln set black people free from slavery. And there is no such thing as black people. The first of those statements is not precisely true; a clarification will be offered momentarily.
Leonard Pitts: Race is the stupidest idea in history - Leonard Pitts Jr.
Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline
A 1998 memo written by al-Qaida military chief Mohammed Atef reveals that Osama bin Laden’s group had detailed knowledge of negotiations that were taking place between Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban and American government and business leaders over plans for a U.S. oil and gas pipeline across that Central Asian country.
On January 22, Frontline airs a program asking why the executives on Wall Street who oversaw the economic meltdown in 2007 have remain unprosecuted.
The New Untouchables Are Wall Street Executives, Despite Evidence Many Likely Criminally Violated Sarbanes-Oxley Act
American History: People
There is a classified America we were never meant to see. From Academy Award®-winning writer/director Oliver Stone, this ten-part documentary series looks back at human events that at the time went under reported, but that crucially shaped America's unique and complex history over the 20th century.
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Tulsa race riot
The Tulsa Race Riot was a large-scale, racially motivated conflict on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in which whites attacked the black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma . It resulted in the Greenwood District , also known as ' the Black Wall Street ' [ 1 ] and the wealthiest black community in the United States, being burned to the ground. During the 16 hours of the assault, more than 800 whites were admitted to local white hospitals with injuries (the black hospital was burned down), and police arrested and detained more than 6,000 black Greenwood residents at three local facilities, in part for their protection. [ 2 ] An estimated 10,000 blacks were left homeless, and 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed by fire.
Wilmington Insurrection of 1898
The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 , also known as the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 , occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898 and following days; it is considered a turning point in North Carolina politics following Reconstruction . Originally labeled a race riot , it is now termed a coup d'etat , as white Democratic insurrectionists overthrew the legitimately elected local government, the only such event in United States history. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the Wilmington Insurrection, two days after the election of a Fusionist white mayor and biracial city council, Democratic white supremacists illegally seized power from the elected government.Wreckage from a bomb that killed Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in January 2010 Eslamirad Mohammad/Zuma Press Rumors about an imminent military attack on Iran over its nuclear program have come and gone for years. In recent weeks such talk has intensified, though it's still anybody's guess as to whether Israel or the United States might openly carry out military action any time soon.
Tracking the Secret War on Iran
November 1979 Iranian students seize 63 hostages at the US embassy in Tehran.
US-Iran relations since 1979: timeline | World news
Mossad Caught Running MEK Assassinations of Iranian Scientists
Mossad Caught Running MEK Assassinations of Iranian Scientists7 February 2013 Last updated at 10:51 GMT A chronology of key events: 550-330 BC - Achaemenid dynasty rules the first Persian Empire.
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The US government has recognized the new standing government in the Maldives just days after the nation's democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, was ousted in a military coup.