I was already plenty aware that a lot of the myths Americans like to tell themselves about World War II and how great our soldiers were in freeing Europe were full of it. For one thing, historians now know that American soldiers engaged in a...
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On October 26, 2005, the European Court of Human Rights decided in the case of a domestic laborer from Togo named Siwa-Akofa Siliadin in her case against her French employers,.
I am never sure if systems of racism like the U.S. are worse, what with their own hatred and discrimination, or if systems of racism like Brazil are worse, where.
People attend a march in tribute to Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer during a traffic stop, in Nanterre, Paris, on June 29, 2023. The slogan reads “Justice for Nahel.” Sarah Meyssonnier—Reuters Two days before the US Supreme Court struck down...
Americans really struggle to deal with the problematic parts of our past. But comapred to the French, with their own weird national myths, Americans do an OK job. I mean,.
French President Emmanuel Macron, gestures as he poses for a photograph after the recording of his New Year's speech at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018. (AP.
This 1966 newsreel is....weird. These people look like idiots. I assume that this never caught on in the United States. I hope not anyway. I also trust that part of Paris 68 was rejecting this. https://www.youtube.com/embed/PDLPSVr3wTE
On April 25, 1947, a strike wave in France began when workers at Renault auto factory in Boulogne-Billancourt walked off the job due to a decline in bread rations from.
The British leaving the EU really opens up the possibilities for those of us who missed the old days of the British and French killing each other over this and.
Paris, Pont Saint-Michel, 1961: "Here we drown Algerians" Sixty years ago today, Algerian migrants around the Paris region gathered for a peaceful march to protest a restrictive and discriminatory curfew. A decree passed on 5 October 1961 required all "French Muslims from Algeria" to stay...
I had high hopes for the French case to hold the U.S. accountable for dropping Agent Orange in Vietnam. This was for two reasons. First is that the U.S. is.
"Together against our broken systems," BLM poster, Paris, Batignolles, June 2020 (Langladure, Wikimedia Commons) So, apparently, we've endangered the French Republic. "We" here is US academics who talk about race..