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The Man Who Faced Ebola First: Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum
The Congolese doctor who walked into Yambuku in 1976 and spent fifty years proving African science could beat Ebola.
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Global Conflicts
Africa's Own CDC: Ebola, Money and the Fight for Health Sovereignty
Born from the 2014 Ebola epidemic, Africa CDC now faces its hardest test in eastern Congo, with American aid in retreat.
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Global Conflicts
Without a Safety Net: Ebola, Eastern Congo and the Retreat of American Aid
Congo's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has passed 10,000 cases. Congolese health workers are holding the line with less U.S. help than in a generation, in a region where distrust of outside medicine has deep colonial roots.
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Black History Now
Africa's Iron Lady at 88: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia, and the World at Morgan State
As Africa's first elected woman head of state marks her 88th birthday, we look back to 1990, when an exiled Ellen Johnson Sirleaf brought Liberia's crisis to a room of HBCU students in Baltimore.
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Politics
Races to Watch: The Possible Firsts of Election Night 2026
Three states could elect their first Black governor, Georgia could elect the first Black woman governor in U.S. history, and Texas and Florida could turn on the Black vote. A fact sheet with links.
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Global
Ten Million Strong: What Brazil's Record LGBTQ+ Vote Teaches Us for the American Midterms
Erika Hilton, a Black trans woman, just won more votes than any woman in Brazil's congressional history. Days before Nov. 3, Brazil shows how the targeted can win.
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Black History Now
In the Mailbox: How Black Voters Are Being Courted, and Deceived, in Ohio's Senate Race
From NAACP scorecards to Republican-funded flyers posing as a socialist campaign, the mail tells the story of the fight for Black votes in Ohio.
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Black History Now
The Rising Tide of HBCU Sports
From Howard golf and tennis to Delaware State wrestling and HBCU lacrosse, baseball, softball, and bowling, Black colleges are competing in every arena again.
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Black History
The Crown in the Caribbean: What King Charles's Tour Reveals About the Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua
Three stops, three reckonings: plantations and Junkanoo in Nassau, sugar, indenture and oil in Guyana, and the republic and reparations question at the Antigua summit.
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Politics
“Who’s Running, Not Who’s on the Ballot”: Catherine Fleming Bruce on Her Write-In Run for the Senate
A father’s voting rights fight, the sacred spaces of the movement, and why South Carolina has never sent a Black woman to Washington.
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Global
Act III: France's Students March Again on October 31
The government offered a Parcoursup overhaul, 15,000 seats and 5 billion euros. Students call it crumbs and return to the streets on Saturday.
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Civil Rights
Walking In: Henrie Monteith Treadwell (1946–2026)
She helped desegregate the University of South Carolina in 1963, survived a bombing to enroll, and spent her life fighting for health equity.
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Black History Now
Vote Anyway: Three Eras of the Fight for the Ballot
From the 1920s to Selma to the young marchers of 2026, Black Americans have voted through every obstacle. After Callais, the lesson is the same: show up.
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Black History
Beyond the Postcard: Rastafari, the 1963 Coral Gardens Massacre, and Jamaica's Unfinished Debt
Jamaica sells Rastafari to the world. Sixty-three years after Coral Gardens, the movement is asking the state to pay what it owes.
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Civil Rights
Eleanor Bumpurs and the Long Line: From the Bronx to Aurora and Springfield
On October 29, 1984, New York police killed a 66-year-old grandmother over unpaid rent. Elijah McClain and Sonya Massey show how little the response to Black people in crisis has changed.
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Global Affairs
"Poison in the Water": After Brazil's Vote, a Threat Against Indigenous Families
A leaked voice message from Tacuru calls for poisoning the water of Guarani-Kaiowá communities. Indigenous lawmakers want the Federal Police to act.
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Black History Now
A Nation Under Siege: Haiti After Aristide, 2004–2026
Since Jean-Bertrand Aristide's 2004 ouster, Haiti has endured foreign troops, cholera, earthquakes, a presidential assassination and gang rule. Here is the contemporary picture, and the Haitians still fighting for a democratic future.
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Global
The Republic in the Streets: A Reader's Guide to France's Youth Uprising
Every HistorianSpeaks story on France's school uprising, the marches, the Trappes attack and the 2027 election, gathered in one place.
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Black History
Discredit, Disrupt, Destroy: What the FBI Files Reveal About the War on Black Leadership
Federal records gathered by the UC Berkeley Library document how J. Edgar Hoover's FBI set out to "neutralize" the Black freedom movement, and why those files still matter.
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Education
Black Studies, Then and Now: From HBCU Classrooms to Today's Battles
Born from the 1968 San Francisco State strike, Black Studies grew into hundreds of programs and more than a dozen doctoral programs — and now faces new political attacks.
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Global Affairs
Beyond the Schools: How France's Student Revolt Became a National Movement
It began with students asking for teachers and desks. It has become a national movement over wages, public services and racism. A story we will keep updating.
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Politics
Sí Se Puede: Dolores Huerta (1930–2026)
Farmworkers, Black freedom and the unfinished fight for justice: a tribute to the UFW co-founder who organized for seven decades.
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Politics
Holding the Gavel: Nadège Abomangoli and the Defense of the Banlieues
The first Black woman to chair France's National Assembly names the far-right rhetoric behind the Trappes attack, and new Mediapart evidence backs her up.
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Global Affairs
Defending the Vote: Will Brazil's Far Right Accept Lula's Victory?
Lula won. Brazil's far right, already shaken by Jair Bolsonaro's coup conviction, is struggling to accept it. A story we will keep updating through the January 1 inauguration.
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