colonialism
World demands investigation of journalist’s murder by Israeli sniper
May 16, 2022Al Jazeeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper while she was covering a demonstration in Palestine.
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Puerto Rican union workers strike against austerity, point to U.S. responsibility
February 24, 2022They’re fed up with the island’s government, but even more with U.S. domination of their affairs.
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Rescuing the lost history of anti-colonial fighter and Communist W. Alphaeus Hunton
February 16, 2022Hunton, a leading figure in the struggle for African-American equality and against colonialism, was a well-known figure from the 1930s through the 1950s. The silencing of Black communist history, however, has left his life unexamined by...
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‘The Thirtieth of January’: Crime and tragedy commemorated in a historical painting
January 28, 2022When Robert Ballagh found a growing need to make a statement on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, he felt drawn to paintings that had impacted him in the past.
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Collective punishment, indiscriminate shooting: Bloody Sunday in Derry 50 years ago
January 28, 2022On Sunday, January 30, 1972, a British Parachute regiment carried out a massacre of 14 peaceful demonstrators at an anti-internment march in the Catholic district of the Bogside.
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