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The #BLM Movement is Officially a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee! The movement for racial justice and equality #Black Lives Matter — which was revived May last year by the violent death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of white police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian parliamentarian, Petter Eide. Founded in 2013 in the United State by three queer African-American women ( Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi) the movement has taken on an even more powerful global force — seeing a collective Afro consciousness aw...

What Trump Shares With the ‘Lost Cause’ of the Confederacy It is hard to miss the parallels between now and then of rewriting history and campaigns of disinformation. By Karen L. Cox Dr. Cox is the author of the forthcoming book “No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice.” Jan. 8, 2021 Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times Wednesday morning, President Trump urged a crowd of supporters who showed up in Washington, D.C., to “walk down to the Capitol” and protest the certification of the election taking place nearby on Pennsy...

On Wednesday, supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol in an unprecedented effort to stop the counting of votes for the electoral college. Where do we go from here? We sit down with reporters and analysts and get their reaction.

Our reading list in 2020, like the rest of our lives, was colored by the triple whammy of pandemic, racial justice protests and the presidential election. But given the unpredictability of these 12 jam-packed, crisis-filled months, how did the thinkers, researchers, preachers and their publishers of the books we clung to know to furnish us with such timely analyses? As several of the authors of the most interesting books have noted, the answer is all too grim: In many cases, we only reaped what we had long sown. But among our favorite histories, travelogs and memoirs below, there are as many ...