New York City generously shares its homeless crisis with every corner of America. From the tropical shores of Honolulu and Puerto Rico, to the badlands of Utah and backwaters of Louisiana, the Big Apple has sent local homeless families to 373 cities across the country with a full year of..…
After the Napoleonic wars in Europe - spilling over into North America as the War of 1812 - France sold “Louisiana” - essentially the Mississippi and Ohio valleys - to the U.S. ..…
Napoleon’s finances were in shambles, a fact Jefferson took advantage of to solve America’s strategic problem: He negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France. ..…
The purpose of Indigenous People's Day is to shine light upon the incredible legacy of the indigenous people of this land and of this beautiful idea we call America, said David Sickey, chairman of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana and NALPI partner.. ..…
He asked his supporters to “Stand Up for America.” . Wallace received 13.5% of the vote. He carried five Southern states – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi – and almost won enough votes to throw the election to the House of Representatives to decide. . ..…
Trump also quoted Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana: “In America, if you hate our Country, you are free to leave.” . ..…
., America’s Voting Machines at Risk. . . [11] The 2020 estimate assumes that eight states (Louisiana, New Jersey, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Kansas, and Mississippi) will still be using paperless machines as primary polling place equipment in at least some counties and towns in..…
And don’t overlook Mississippi, which has been making sure and steady progress even as its neighbor to the west, Louisiana, gets all of the national attention. . Several of these states are the same ones that look impressive according to “America’s Gradebook,” an analysis from Matt..…
There is rapid growth of unusually extreme fires burning across South America, Australia, and western North America like the extreme and last year. . . Barry, recently caused downpours in Louisiana. The situation showed the compounding of risks that scientists have..…
He established French colonies Asia, Africa and America Louisiana, claimed in 1683, including Mississippi valley, was one of the largest land grabs in the history of European imperialism. ..…
Mike Johnson of Louisiana, the top Republican on the panel, said he respects the beliefs of those who support reparations. He called America’s history with slavery “regrettable and shameful.” . ..…
., sailed to France in 1752, to meet with Catholic King Louis XV to obtain land in the Louisiana Territory in order to move Maryland Catholics there. . ... The thirteen colonies in America, with their different denominations, realized they had to work together in order to defeat the..…
Jefferson asked him to be the governor of the Louisiana Territory, but he declined. . Fifty years after the Revolution began, Marquis de Lafayette visited America. ..…
“I guarantee you that my mother and her parents, who lived in Jim Crow Louisiana, probably had better food than folks living in urban America today, because they grew it themselves,” said Congressman Keith Ellison. ..…
“Louisiana’s natural gas and oil industry plays a critical role in fueling America with reliable and affordable energy and damage to our critical infrastructure risks interrupting critical services across the United States.” . ..…
Nonetheless, across North America, Arabic names remain part of the historical record. Louisiana court records of the 18th and 19th century show proceedings related to Almansor, Souman, Amadit, Fatima, Yacine, Moussa, Bakary, Mamary and others. ..…
In 1985, men and in every country east, south and southeast Asia, Oceania, Latin America and Caribbean and region that comprises Asia, Middle East and Africa had higher mean BMI than their rural peers. ..…
Supreme Court — based on a legal challenge to Louisiana law regarding “separate but equal” — upheld segregation as the law of the land, St. Katharine Drexel founded Xavier, America’s only historically black and Catholic university, in 1925. ..…
A: Unlike Las Vegas, what happens in Louisiana seldom stays here. It travels. Maybe it’s because the state is like the rest of America, only more so. ..…
He was the author of America's Declaration of Independence, and served as his country's third President. he doubled the size of America by Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon, 000 square miles at cost of $15 million.. ..…
Winner Shane Bauer, er for Mother Jones, has won for AMERICAN PRISON A Reporter's Undercover Journey into Business of Punishment, groundbreaking and brave look at the nexus of prison and profit America — one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.. ..…
En la lógica de los halcones que controlan la política de la administración de Trump hacia la América Latina, la acción es vista como una embestida final contra la izquierda y las fuerzas progresistas en el continente. ..…
It is believed that Tennessee is the first of America’s southern states—also including the Carolinas, Virginia, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, and Alabama—to include trans people in its hate crime laws. . ..…
When Democrats wanted to expand slavery into this new Louisiana Territory, it resulted in “Bleeding Kansas.” . Prior to the Civil War, America was divided into 5 categories: . Radical Northern Republicans: whose attitude was slavery is wrong — end it now. . . ..…
Southern University and A&M College System also holds the distinction as being the only Historically Black University System in America. . When accounting for all the five campuses throughout Louisiana that includes, Southern University, Baton Rouge; Southern University, New Orleans;..…
This is their playbook: stack the federal bench with anti-choice judges to gut reproductive rights,' said Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. . The president of anti-abortion group March for Life, Jeanne Mancini, said Friday that the Louisiana law takes 'concrete steps to..…
Kennedy is going to continue representing Louisiana in Senate and keep on helping President Trump make America great again, ment.. ..…
“I am a man who sees life in terms of missions — missions defined and missions completed,” he told Republican delegates in the Louisiana Superdome, acknowledging a swell of applause. He said he would “keep America moving forward” and strive “for a better America.” . ..…
“I am a man who sees life in terms of missions — missions defined and missions completed,” he told Republican delegates in the Louisiana Superdome, acknowledging a swell of applause. He said he would “keep America moving forward” and strive “for a better America.” . . . ..…
New Zealand’s population and economy is roughly comparable with Louisiana’s, the 26th largest state of America. I don’t know if politicians in the Louisiana State House think they run the world, too, but they’re delusional if they do. . ..…
In reacting to the Equal Justice Initiative 2015 report on the thousands of lynchings between 1877 and 1950, a writer for The American Conservative, Rod Dreher, himself from Louisiana, concluded the following in his blog, “When ISIS Ran the American South:” . No, the American South (and other..…
November 13, 2018 The Midterm Results are Challenging Racism in America in Unexpected Ways . by . . ... In 1898 the state of Louisiana held a constitutional convention with the declared aim of disenfranchising black people and perpetuating white rule. ..…
Lance writes: Normally, when my Thai wife and I cross Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, LA, USA, we do so over the record setting causeway bridge. ..…
This means over 25 million women of reproductive age — that’s more than a third of women of reproductive age in America — could lose access to safe, legal abortion. . These 20 states include Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi,..…
By subsidence of expansionism, Manifest Destiny Study of Nationalist Expansionism American History remains indispensable chronicle of U.S imperialism, noted, Despite the doubling of America's, the accession of Louisiana was not followed.. ..…
For the good of Louisiana and for the good of America, Suzie Terrell needs to be United States senator, 1,100 supporters at New Orleans luncheon. ..…
Not only did the EJI find evidence of 700 more lynching than previously thought, but over a period of four years the EJI staff spent thousands of hours documenting where lynchings actually occurred in the 12 most active lynching states in America: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,..…
overdue reckoning with America's post-slavery subjugation of black people unfolded Florida and Louisiana on Tuesday, as voters threw out vestiges of post- Reconstruction Jim Crow era. ..…
That statement seems to have referred not to the Louisiana platform but to a “Negro Resolution” adopted at the founding convention of the Socialist Party of America in 1901. ..…
Louisiana, United States Supreme Court, October 1, 2008, available at http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-343.ZO.html as of August 2, 2011. . ^ Justice Samuel Alito, Patrick Kennedy v. Louisiana, United States Supreme Court, October 1, 2008,..…
Experience the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Buy Lincoln at Amazon.com! . . 9 Louisiana Purchase . . . It’s been mentioned more than once before on Listverse, and you’re probably familiar with it anyway, but let us not forget that with one shrewd business deal, Thomas..…
Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor by Steve Lerner . Climate Change: Debating America’s Policy Options by David G. Victor . ..…