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...pacify concerned Black Americans. It is not about justifying or proving black history’s importance. Rather, the goal is to restore the grains of truth within the hourglass of our time as our true history continues to struggle to justify its existence. Each of us holds the pen of today, and we have the power to right our history as we will see it tomorrow. Black History Is Your History...
...countries, most of the more than 370 items on display are usually found in Istanbul, in the Topkapi Palace Museum and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art. Many are appearing for the first time outside Turkey, including a set of drawings commonly attributed to "Mohammad of the Black Pen." These kinetic images depicting nomads, Sufi dervishes and demons and dating from 14th and 15th century Central Asia are not, in fact, by a single artist. They "must be the earliest surviving examples in the Turkic world of pictures made for display during recitals of stories," says Filiz Çagman...
...felon, he was busted in his early 20s by the FBI for engineering one of the biggest frauds in U.S. history. His ZZZZ Best carpet-cleaning scam, a mid-1980s securities caper, was worth $300 million before it went up in smoke. That rap landed him in a federal pen on a 25-year sentence. After serving seven years and four months, he got out in 1995 and, like the con man portrayed in the hit movie Catch Me If You Can, he started helping the feds. "Three weeks out of jail, my arresting officer extended an invitation to speak...
Finally, just to square things as far as fallacies are concerned, the spokesperson for the UN that I quoted in the second paragraph was Marie-Helene Verney, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Too often these sorts of essays end with the author impaling himself on his own pen...
...last week, three of the PEN attendees were detained by Beijing police, including the branch's two founders: Yu Jie, a prolific essayist and frequent critic of Chinese political culture, and social commentator Liu Xiaobo. The police questioned the three about their writings and copied material from their computers. Yu's wife Liu Min says police told her that her husband was suspected of "endangering state security," and that she should "tell her old man to quit writing." All three men were later released, but as of Thursday night, Yu said police were still stationed outside his door and following...