Category: History
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

New Zealand Shooting Live Updates: Attack on Christchurch Mosques Leaves 49 Dead “Nobody’s answering their phones,” she said. “We don’t know if they’re at the hospital or out of reach. Some have posted that they are safe, but others have not.” #HateCrime #MassShootings #NewZealand Political incivility, racial hostility roil U.S. high schools, study finds To bolster their…
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I’m Not Racist But…

Online Klan Rally Social media has solidified what I’ve always known: that racists, come in all shapes and sizes. You have liberal bigots, wealthy bigots, conservative bigots, poor ones, lady bigots, Republicans, Democrats, socialists, and everything else under the sun. Also, you realize thanks to social media that #WhiteFragility is always on and poppin’. I…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

6 Civilians and 2 Soldiers Killed as Tensions Rise Between India and Pakistan Over Kashmir “Tensions have been running high since Indian aircraft crossed into Pakistan this past Tuesday, carrying out what India called a pre-emptive strike against militants blamed for a Feb. 14 suicide bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 40 Indian troops. Pakistan…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Bobby Seale

Welcome to the “Black History Month” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week in February, we will highlight a historical black male figure that embodies what it meant to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor…
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Black Boy Joy

Three Years of Evolving Man Project It’s been three years since I launched the Evolving Man Project. 2018 was our biggest year yet, and there’s a lot more coming in the year ahead. The purpose of this site is a look into the personal journey of one black man in America. Being black in…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Trump ‘fear-mongering’ fuels rise of U.S. hate groups to record: watchdog “The words and imagery coming out of the Trump administration and from Trump himself are heightening these fears,” Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, told reporters on a conference call. “These images of foreign scary invaders threatening diseases, massive refugee caravans coming…
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Where Inclusiveness Goes to Die

Inclusivity in Trump’s America Since the Trump election, the media has played an elaborate game of mental gymnastics in defending Trump and his stunch supporters. At the same time, they have made half-assed attempts to critique the bigotry and hate surrounding the Forty-Fifth President. From the Trump propaganda network known as Fox News to the…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.

Welcome to the “Black History Month” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week in February, we will highlight a historical black male figure who embodied what it meant to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Fact-checking Trump’s announcement of a national emergency Where to begin with President Trump’s rambling news conference to announce he was invoking a national emergency to build a border wall? It was chock-full of false and misleading claims, many of which we’ve previously highlighted, either in our database of Trump claims or our list of Bottomless Pinocchios. Here’s a…
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The Long Voyage Home

Anchors Aweigh It seems like a lifetime ago. I was only seventeen and had recently graduated from high school. I had my whole life ahead of me. I made the decision to join the United States Navy. During that time, I came of age during that four-year enlistment. Through my travels, I saw parts of…