On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ostensibly eliminated chattel slavery in the antebellum South.…
Hundreds of oil workers from a state-owned petroleum corporation in the West African state of Ivory Coast walked off the…
Feb. 1 — The International Criminal Court put former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo on trial Jan. 28 in the…
Vernon F. Dahmer Sr., a staunch NAACP activist and a close friend of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was killed…
Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Jan. 23 that the United States is…
The 13th annual Martin Luther King Day rally and march took place Jan. 18 in downtown Detroit, where a host…
Gunmen attacked a four-star hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Jan. 15, highlighting so-called “Islamist extremist” organizations’ operations in West…
Several developments in South Africa over the last few weeks have brought to the fore the ongoing unfinished quest for…
This year's national commemoration of the 87th birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. comes during a period…
A co-founder of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) in 1954 has died in exile in Switzerland. Thousands attended the…