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Freedom Flotilla has attempted to break through Israel's blockade multiple times, with only two ships ever allowed close to ...
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Voyage of Courage
For the past week, the small yacht Madleen, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, carried a determined band of activists led by Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, French Member of the ...
Today, scholars from more than 30 countries, including 28 Nobel Laureates, are taking on the similar risks by signing a ...
Israel—long described as the only democracy in the Middle East—has recently seized humanitarian flotillas in international ... In Hungary, freedom of the press and civil rights have been ...
On the day of Donald Trump’s military parade, Europeans are commemorating 40 years of borderless travel on the continent.
Juneteenth marks a pivotal part of our nation's history. For one family, it's also a time to reflect on their past: the journey of their enslaved ancestors and the success that followed.
On Jan. 1, 1863, nearly two years into the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ...
On June 1, the Freedom Flotilla’s ship Madleen set sail from Sicily, carrying a crew of activists, including Greta Thunberg, ...
On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress voted to replace the colonies' part-time militias with a full-time army – and ...
Portuguese? French?—its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade. The interactive animates more than 20,000 voyages cataloged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.
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Songs of freedom, flight, and water
" Songs of Flight " illuminates these stories with emotional precision and musical depth, as loving homages that return the enslaved's story back to its victim, and out of the hands of the slaveowner.