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The legacy of 9/11: Reflections on a global tragedy
… thousands of innocent civilians and displaced millions of people. Of the 26 million refugees and 80 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, the majority are from the Middle … the Harkness Tower carillon bells will toll four times to mark the events of that day: at 8:46 a.m. (the attack on the …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
GLC Student Column: “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle”: Reflections on MLK Day
… not a celebration. This message was relayed to the 2,500 people in the audience by Martin Luther King III, the son of … CEO compensation, which often surpasses the billion-dollar mark, and contrasted it to the measly $7.25 that the federal … would be necessary in securing jobs for working-class people with favorable conditions and livable wages. Dr. …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Ana Lucia Araujo on Objects as Archives Book Talk: The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism
… Araujo’s book is a corrective to the notion that enslaved people were exchanged for trinkets and things of little … she remarked. “It is not a static object,  other people can have it. And the object changes, it could be … gratitude, of power, and deceit. Each new recipient left a mark on the object. “It looks like a story that the same …
MacMillan Center
Ukraine elects a comedian president
… teacher in a popular television show, Servant of the People, who, after a rant about corruption that is secretly … by his production company, which produces Servant of the People. In December, the party, which has the same name as … who, supported by Russia, control, via self-proclaimed People’s Republics, substantial portions of the regions of …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Secondary Sources
… … Secondary Sources General Works Bales, Kevin. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy . Washington, DC: … of Wisconsin Press, 2016. Slavery and the Law Brandon, Mark E.  Free in the New World: American Slavery and …
MacMillan Center
Y-RISE initiative enlists faculty expertise in fight against poverty
… programs so that they can benefit the greatest number of people. The Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale, … policy and is delivered to hundreds of thousands of people. “The world becomes vastly more complicated when a … consideration in bringing a program to scale, said Mark Rosenzweig, the Frank Altschul Professor of …
European Studies Council
Yale sociologist Phil Gorski on the threat of white Christian nationalism
… they saw themselves, like the Israelites, as a chosen people. North America was the new Promised Land. The Native … Ham had seen his father Noah drunk and naked, God placed a mark on Ham’s son Canaan and condemned his offspring to slavery. Christians used this to justify enslaving people of African descent. Why is 1690 the origin for white …
South Asian Studies Council
Levin’s Trip Shows “Greater Name Recognition”
… profile here has gotten much greater, so we have access to people that we would not have had access to earlier,” Joseph … said in a phone interview from New Delhi. “The kinds of people that want to interact with him are at a much higher …