Word: millennium
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...PRIVATE First Class Christopher Lujan put a haunting, human face on the war in Iraq. Lujan, with his innocent face, seemed out of place in the uniform of war and on the streets of hell. Many of us are unable to comprehend how, at the beginning of a new millennium, we are still sending out our beloved children to kill and maim one another. Where are the protests? Will we never learn...
...America or Europe, the world is cold and indifferent to the Negro.” In light of the global community’s refusal to forgive the debts of predominantly black developing nations, to fulfill its promised contributions to fighting AIDS, to meet or even seriously consider the millennium development goals to eradicate poverty and hunger, to intervene in the atrocities of Rwanda or Darfur, or to merely report on the poverty, violence and hunger that is wreaking havoc on black communities everywhere, Garvey’s statement is equally true today. Since non-black people have done little...
...terrible conclusion is that no once cared that Jews were being killed. At the time of the most terrible test, friends and benefactors didn’t lift a finger This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust.” After a half-millennium during which the world has created, exacerbated and ignored the global plight of black people, it is time for us to draw a similar lesson. During our most terrible tests—Rwanda, Darfur, the AIDS epidemic, mass incarceration, civil wars, impossible national debts, violence in our ghettoes, educational, economic and political inequalities?...
...might have seen the show's success coming, but TV history suggested the series didn't stand a ghost of a chance. (Hey, she started it!) Since the launches of Twin Peaks and The X-Files, the network schedules have been littered with failed attempts at spooky, paranormal series: Millennium, The Others, Miracles, Wolf Lake and more. (The exceptions, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joan of Arcadia and HBO's Carnivale, have been cult hits or cable shows.) Viewers, meanwhile, gravitated to reality shows and firmly realistic cop procedurals...
...official launch of the project’s final recommendations will also take place in over 100 other countries around the world. Juma is currently in Nairobi, Kenya to lead the Millennium Project’s official launch there...