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...Jesse Jackson to strengthen ties between African and African-American businessmen benefited from Abiola's largesse, as did the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation: each reportedly received a $250,000 donation. Few people asked where the money came from; even fewer returned it. The currying of favor continued under the brutal reign of Abacha. During that time, all manner of prominent African Americans from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to delegations of clergymen, newspaper publishers and businessmen accepted government-sponsored tours of Nigeria, then sang the dictator's praises...
...assistant secretary of state, he helped to negotiate the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia. He acted as U.S. human rights envoy to Bosnia in 1995 to investigate crimes against humanity. Shattuck was also a key player in establishing the international criminal tribunals for investigating the brutal killing in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia...
...recently, a third group--all black--has landed on England's shores, seeking retribution for the slavery, brutal killing and humiliation their ancestors suffered at the hands of British generals. Immigrants from the old Empire's colonies in the Caribbean and Africa now populate England's lower and middle class neighborhoods, joining the revolt against the long-standing symbols of aristocratic influence...
...staging a rally outside the courthouse in Jasper, Texas, but the Klansmen face the unfamiliar experience of having their activities monitored by shotgun-wielding members of the New Black Panther Party, who plan to protect the town's black citizens. The Klan event is ostensibly intended to condemn the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr. for which three men with white supremacist links have been charged...
...that idea led Lewis from his family's sharecropper farm in Alabama to the front lines of the battle for racial justice during the 1960s; he never flinched as he suffered arrests and beatings during the lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville, Tenn., the Freedom Rides and the brutal police assault on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Ala., that paved the way to the movement's greatest triumph, the Voting Rights...