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The world's largest Confederate Monument faces renewed calls for removal
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, a nine-story-high bas-relief sculpture carved into a sprawling rock face northeast of Atlanta, is perhaps the South's most audacious monument to its pro-slavery legacy still intact.
Despite long-standing demands for the removal of what many consider a shrine to racism, the giant depiction of three Confederate heroes on horseback still towers ominously over the Georgia countryside, protected by state law.
The monument - which reopens on Independence Day weekend after the Covid-19 pandemic forced it to close for weeks - has faced renewed calls for removal since the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died during an arrest by a white police officer who pinned his neck to the ground with a knee.
The brutality of Floyd's death, captured on cellphone video, triggered a national outcry against racial injustice, and revived a long-simmering battle between tho
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Life/Philosophy
Distortion and Misinterpretation of Sacred Scriptures: A Quranic Perspective
by V A Mohamad Ashrof
Sacred scriptures are divine revelations, beacons of light guiding humanity through the labyrinth of life toward truth, justice, and moral rectitude. However, history bears witness to instances where these texts…
How ABSSS led a peaceful transition towards nation for the landless and release and rehabilitation of bonded workers
by Bharat Dogra
While starting their work most voluntary organizations are reluctant to take up the most difficult issues. However when Gaya Prasad Gopal, popularly known as Gopal ji in development circles in…
Humble tributes to Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan on his 35th death anniversary!
by Dr Suresh Khairnar
Today,20 January 2024, it will be thirty-five years since Badshah Khan left this world! Although he had suffered more imprisonment and tortyr during the British regel than any other citizen…
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Deaths in December 2024
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2024.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
December 2024
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[edit]- Fahad Ag Almahmoud, Malian Tuareg militant, secretary-general of GATIA (2014–2023), airstrike.[1]
- Vinci Vogue Anžlovar, 61, Slovene film director, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[2]
- Niels Arestrup, 75, French actor (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A Prophet, War Horse).[3]
- Jacques Barsamian, 81, French singer, writer, and journalist.[4]
- Alioune Badara Bèye, 79, Senegalese novelist, playwright and publisher.[5]
- Gjorgji Bojadžiev, 74, Macedonian army officer, ch