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Racial Reckoning in the United States: Expanding and Innovating on the Global Transitional Justice Experience

In the United States, new efforts to address state-backed racial violence and discrimination tap into a long global history of transitional justice. Case studies in Brazil, South Africa, and Northern Ireland shed light on which types of transitional justice programs are likely to be most effective in the United States.

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11 events marking 1898 massacre to be held in Wilmington, New Hanover

11 events marking 1898 massacre to be held in Wilmington, New Hanover
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America Hasn t Reckoned with the Coup That Blasted the Black Middle Class

Yves here. This is a fascinating, if also deeply disturbing account of how a prosperous black community was attacked after North Carolina blacks also were starting to get political power by teaming up with white populists and Republicans. And you’ll see that “coup” is indeed the correct description. The fact that the Wilmington coup was a durable success and no perp was held to account was proof that the white backlash against rising blacks would go unchecked. If you were a Black person in America in the 1890s, you wanted to live in Brooklyn. Not Brooklyn, New York. No, you wanted to be in the bustling Brooklyn district of Wilmington, North Carolina. At that time, 25,000 people lived in the thronging Cape Fear River port, the state’s largest city. More than half of them were Black. In Brooklyn, you could meet Black seamstresses, stevedores, cobblers, restauranteurs, shop owners, artisans, midwives, merchants, doctors, lawyers, bankers, and police officers. The federal cu

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There have been other attacks at the US Capitol before this week

There have been other attacks at the US Capitol before this week The chaos at the US Capitol on Wednesday wasn’t the first time there’s been violence at one of the most iconic American buildings. For more than four hours, supporters of President Donald Trump occupied the Capitol in an attempt to fight against the ceremonial counting of the electoral votes to confirm President-elect Joe Biden’s win. One woman was shot in the chest and later died, DC police told CNN. Multiple officers were injured with at least one transported to the hospital, multiple sources told CNN.

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US politics: Attacks on the US Capitol throughout history

Here s a look at those incidents. US Capitol burns in 1814 British troops attacked the Capitol on August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812, according to the Architect of the Capitol website. The attack was in retaliation for Americans burning of the Canadian capital, York, in April 1813. British troops met little to no resistance during the raid, according to the Capitol architect website. Most of the population of the city at the time fled, the website says, but those who remained . were witness to a horrifying spectacle. The British torched major rooms in the Capitol, which then housed the Library of Congress, as well as the House, Senate and Supreme Court, the website states. The White House, the navy yard and several American warships were also burned.

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