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America's immigration story actually starts in the darkness of prehistory. Archaeologists estimate that Paleo-Indians began their great trek from Asia around 30,000 B.C., in pursuit of shaggy, straight-horned bison (now extinct) and other edible fauna. They gradually moved south and east from Alaska as the glaciers...
And here's where Malikah Jamillah Sherman of scenic Staten Island put distance between herself and the pack. Malikah built a three-dimensional city--sort of like a diorama but not really--out of colorful construction paper. On the roof of each building, she wrote a word or two describing...
Nigerians have never given up the idea that their tumultuous but potentially powerful nation will someday have the democratic government it deserves. They may have started down that road in earnest last week when the city of Lagos, a boisterous, sprawling metropolis of more than 6 million, stood empty and...
In the eyes of a skinhead, Portland, Oregon, looks like the city of the future. Not that Loren Christensen would agree; the gang enforcement officer with the Portland police maintains that his town has "tolerance for different life-styles, as long as they're liberal life-styles. There's no...
According to the New York-based Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, skinheads have taken 22 victims in the past three years; in 1992 they were responsible for seven deaths, almost a quarter of all bias-related murders in the U.S. The ADL concluded that the punks, who...