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Australia needs a Media Freedom Act. Here's how it could work
Australians picked up their morning papers yesterday to find heavily blacked-out text instead of front-page headlines. This bold statement was…
Before Emmett Till, 23-year-old George Armwood was dragged from jail, hanged and burnt in 1933
Before the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, the harrowing story of George Armwood in 1933 had sent shivers down…
White Mob of 2,000 People Lynch George Armwood in Maryland
On October 18, 1933, a mob of at least 2,000 white residents of Princess Anne, Maryland beat, hanged, dragged, and…
How Asia transformed from the poorest continent in the world into a global economic powerhouse
By sladkozaponi/Shutterstock Deepak Nayyar, University of Oxford In 1820, Asia accounted for two-thirds of the world’s population and more than…
Britain is still failing to acknowledge the legacy of slavery – memorialising its victims would be a start
Monday, 21 October 2019 23:33 Written by theconversation A statuette of a proposed memorial that has yet to find full funding. Memorial 2007 Caroline Bressey, UCL The…
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