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‘We are in a war for this planet’
“Where is the lawyer? Where is the lawyer?” a swarm of men shouted at the car. Alfred Brownell, the lawyer, was identified. The men began beating the car, rocking it, trying to smash the windows.
Amid the oil price collapse and COVID-19, what’s in store for Africa’s economy?
With a private sector that has dealt with constant difficulties, such as crashes in oil prices, food security, and the lack of infrastructure and electricity shortages across the continent, can African nations become independent from oil, and to what extent?
The immunization effect in Africa
Mass immunization programs for diseases such as measles, cholera, and yellow fever have been suspended during the pandemic, leaving as many as 117 million children without vaccines this year, says Richard Wamai, an associate professor who studies neglected tropical diseases.
Voices of Northeastern: Ted Landsmark
“We need to recognize that we're at a point in history where we can make change,” says Ted Landsmark, distinguished professor of public policy and urban affairs and director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy.
She’s exploring the African American experience through history
For the past 10 years, Patricia Davis has studied how African Americans have chronicled their lives before, during, and immediately after the Civil War. In particular, she’s analyzed how black history museums have memorialized the experience of African Americans from the late 18th century to the late 19th century.