Malala shares the prize with Kailash Satyarthi, a 60-year-old man from India who has helped lead a movement to end child slavery around the world.MalalaYousafzaiwasbornonJuly12,1997inMingora,theSwatDistrictofnorthwestPakistantoa SunniMuslimfamily.Whenshewasjust11yearsold,shestartedbloggingabouttheT ...
the Constitution, unique throughout world history. I am thankful for those who died protecting our borders in war. I am grateful to those who protect our sovereignty today. I am thankful for my freedom. All I could do was raise my eyes to the heavens and thank the One upon Whom this n...
John Caldwell Calhoun (; March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman from the Democratic party and political theorist from South Carolina who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for ...
Now, they pursue people who have gone missing because of natural disasters, war, trafficking, crime, human slavery or, of course, migration. They have helped to identify more than 20,000 people over the years. Sometimes, after a natural disaster, a government will do everything it ...
which was launched by the Western powers, and as a result of the anticommunism of right-wing Social Democratic leaders, who helped force the Communists out of governments in a number of countries. The majority of the trade union associations of the West left the WFTU in 1949 and established...
(reigned 1782–1809)—was to move his capital across the Chao Phraya River to Bangkok, which at the time was still a small village. By the mid-19th century, Bangkok had become a city of some 400,000 people, swelled by the huge numbers of Chinese who had poured into Siam during Rama...
The abolition of slavery in 1848 led white landowners to recruit indentured laborers for their plantations, particularly Tamils. Most Tamils stayed at the end of their five-year contracts and continued to work for the white landowners. At the turn of the century, some Chinese and Muslim Gujarat...
Skovia is without parents. She was being taken care of by a relative in the camp who forced her to be a slave and delivered a beating to her every night. The scars and bruises covering her little arms gave just a hint to the hell she was living through each day. ...
Although not nearly comparable to the South’s intractable position on the abomination that was slavery, I noted a few snippets directly relatable to today’s bitterly hostile political environment. “Ward excoriated the “Northern dough-faces”—pliable collaborators—who would “lick up the spittl...
Penniman: Yes, Jack Abramoff, who was a little bit of an advisor on this book, and as many of your readers and listeners know was thrown in jail for his stepping over the line as a lobbyist in Washington, helped guide us on this one. His point is that as long as members on ...