Haiti(then Saint-Domingue) formally declared independence from France in 1804 and became the first sovereign nation in the Western Hemisphere to unconditionally abolish slavery in the modern era. Which country abolished slavery last? Mauritaniais the world's last country to abolish slavery, and the ...
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became dizzy and weak while cutting sugarcane on a Dominican plantation. Jean-Marc, like many cane cutters in the province of La Romana, was employed by the private sugar company, Central Romana Corporation [CR]. Much of CR’s mostly Black laborers (known as “cane cutters”) are unauthorize...
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Vladimir Lenin, the leader behind the communist Bolshevik Revolution, died in 1924 of a brain hemorrhage. The man whobrought terror to so manywas 54 at the time of his death.Doctors notedLenin's cerebral arteries were "so calcified that when tapped with tweezers they sounded like stone.” I...
What that meant to me was take one step at a time. When you feel you just can’t get out of bed because of depression and the thought of another horrible day say out loud:Walk. Put one foot in front of the other. Do only what’s in front of you. If you are compulsively washing...
Some say, as Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray did in their 1994 book, The Bell Curve, that the cause is genetic. And though The Bell Curve has been discredited in scientific circles, the idea that IQ is somehow linked...