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The historical roots of racism in the United States rest on a convergence of early colonial labor systems, transatlantic slavery, legal codification of race, and the social invention of “whiteness” to...
A growing body of science and reporting identifies hotspots where “Day Zero” — the point when local water demand exceeds supply and taps run perilously low — is already a realistic near-term risk, not...
Cowboy-like traditions developed in multiple regions independently over many centuries, rooted in equestrian herding practices from the medieval Mediterranean and the Islamic world to distinct ranchin...
The slur "" is etymologically traced by scholars to niger, meaning "black," which passed through Romance-language forms such as negro and nègre before appearing in English variants; over the 18th and ...
’s family traces its roots to ’s region and to areas historically linked with present-day , but public records and reporting do not establish a clear, uncontested ethnic designation of “” for Erdoğan ...
The first people to herd domestic cattle in the Americas were not the high-plains “cowboys” of 19th‑century myth but early colonial herders in the Caribbean and Mesoamerica — a workforce that historic...
The slang form nigga derives historically from the racial slur nigger, itself tracing back through English borrowings of Spanish/Portuguese negro from Latin niger “black,” and has been attested in dia...
Rafael Cohen Henriquez was a member of Curaçao’s Sephardi Jewish Cohen Henriquez family, recorded in genealogical databases as born 8 June 1850 in Curaçao and dying 23 July 1921 in Curaçao . Contempor...
Tensions between Ashkenazi and Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews in Israel and the Jewish diaspora are long-standing, rooted in early Zionist institutional dominance by Ashkenazim and subsequent Sephardi/Mizrahi ...