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Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Named after an insulting song lyric regarding African Americans,

Source: Jim Crow Laws – HISTORY

The preservation of culturally and spiritually significant Southern African archaeological, geographical and communal sites is also the preservation of what inexorably links all humanity together. The Sacred Sites Foundation, with archaeoastronomical researcher and author Dean Liprini at the helm, are ensuring that our diverse heritage sites, and the communities ancestrally linked to them, remain protected […]

Source: Die Oog and the Great Motherstone are some of the windows that connect us to our primordial and spiritual past! – Sacred Site Foundation of Southern Africa

The Osage tribe in Oklahoma became spectacularly wealthy in the early 1900s — and then members started turning up dead. David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon describes the dark plot against them.

Source: In The 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money : NPR

CCR SA, Brazil’s largest toll-road operator, is heading to a first-of-its kind shareholders’ meeting on a prickly subject: corruption.

Source: Brazil Company Wants to Pay Executives to Confess to Corruption – Bloomberg

The air we breathe could be changing our behaviour in ways we are only just beginning to understand, writes Melissa Hogenboom.

Source: BBC – Future – How air pollution is doing more than killing us

Historical landmarks like the Cathedral of Notre-Dame are significant symbols of culture, so naturally, people will identify emotionally with these symbols just as they do with their culture. However, let’s face it, the cathedral is just a building, and portions of it burning without anyone getting hurt is the epitome of a “first world problem.”

Source: Billion Dollars Has Been Raised For Notre Dame Cathedral But We Can’t Fix The Planet

“Col. Karim’s ruling on permitting raping non-Jewish women is similar to the fatwa of a murderous organization that’s not so far from Israel’s borders.”, Arab, IDF, Israel, judiasim, Palestine, rabbi, rape,

Source: New IDF Chief Rabbi Says Soldiers Can Rape Arab Women To Boost Morale

The era of the trans-Atlantic slavery is documented in archives in former colonies around the world. Now, just as there’s the most potential to use those documents to fill in large gaps in history, some of those archives are at risk of being lost.

Source: Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost | Public Radio International