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A Biography of America. The Black Panthers. The Black Panthers were formed in California in 1966 and they played a short but important part in the civil rights movement.

The Black Panthers

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The Travelling Teachers: New York

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The hard lives — and high suicide rate — of Native American children on reservations

The tamarisk tree down the dirt road from Tyler Owens’s house is the one where the teenage girl who lived across the road hanged herself. Don’t climb it, don’t touch it, admonished Owens’s grandmother when Tyler, now 18, was younger. There are other taboo markers around the Gila River Indian reservation — eight young people committed suicide here over the course of a single year.

“We’re not really open to conversation about suicide,” Owens said. “It’s kind of like a private matter, a sensitive topic. But the silence that has shrouded suicide in Indian country is being pierced by growing alarm at the sheer number of young Native Americans taking their own lives — more than three times the national average, and up to 10 times on some reservations. Timetoast timeline maker. Make a timeline, tell a story. Native American Timeline. Native American History Timeline of Important Dates. How It All Went Down. Political Party Quiz. Trump gets down to business on 60 Minutes. The following script is from "Trump" which aired on September 27, 2015.

Trump gets down to business on 60 Minutes

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Electoral College - Facts & Summary

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Reflections on the 9/11 Memorial

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Today, The National Gun Victims Action Council (NGAC) Launches BREW NOT BULLETS: SAY NO TO

CHICAGO, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Valentine's Day 2012, the National Gun Victims Action Council (NGAC) is launching BREW NOT BULLETS: SAY NO TO STARBUCKS…UNTIL STARBUCKS SAYS NO TO GUNS, a national boycott of Starbucks and its related products. (Logo: NGAC announced today's calls for the Starbucks boycott on Jan. 23 (Press Release: Starbucks Boycott) only after exhaustive efforts to avoid a boycott were rejected All efforts to avoid this boycott "The boycott will end only when Starbucks rejects the NRA's Pro-Gun agenda by 1) banning all guns from their stores and 2) committing to be an Aggressive Corporate Advocate for sane gun laws," says Elliot Fineman, CEO of the National Gun Victim's Action Council (NGAC).

Starbucks rationale is contained in their official Starbucks response —"In the end, we determined that following local laws is the best approach for us. Elliot Fineman | NRA: The largest civil-rights group ever. I am the president of the largest civil-liberties organization this nation has ever seen.

NRA: The largest civil-rights group ever

Home. National Gun Victims Action Council Home- National Gun Victims Action Council. Even in Shadow of Massacre, Connecticut’s Gun Law Faced Uphill Fight. Photo HARTFORD — Almost from the moment that Adam Lanza ended his siege, it seemed that Connecticut, dominated by Democrats and already with some of the nation’s toughest gun laws, would quickly pass sweeping new restrictions on firearms. Its legislature did so on Thursday. But the process was fraught from the start, and up until the very end, the leaders had to contend with potential deal breakers and ferocious lobbying by pro- and anti-gun forces. The driving force was the massacre of 26 children and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14.

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