Yes, we are reminded of the racial atrocities committed.
Barack Obama's victory in no way erases the wicked racial atrocities that burned this country to the ground in the 1960's, nor does it put a permanent end to them.
Legendary singer, writer and feminist icon Ian was only 14 when she wrote Society's Child observing the racial bigotry and atrocities during the 1960's.
Instead, Whitehead layers in racial injustices and atrocities typical of different times and places, and in doing so reveals the full range of how such crimes can be perpetrated.
While the children represent hope and equality, in contrast to the weighted history of atrocities and racial oppression, their gazes are steady and sober, as if they have not entirely escaped their nations' pasts.
Muslims living in Britain have suffered more than 100 racial attacks since the terrorist atrocities in Paris, figures prepared for ministers reveal.
Responding to criticism from his recent trip to Myanmar, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he's keen to learn about the country's racial tension and human rights atrocities, but it has emerged that both he and Twitter's public policy team ignored an opportunity to connect with a key civic group in the country.
It remains to discuss whether individual political actors and institutions, and collective efforts to respond to such moral atrocities as slavery, legally enforced racial segregation, ethnic cleansing, and other large-scale immoralities may be regarded as forms of forgiveness.
For example, Laura Pulido's "Landscapes of Racial Violence" recounts specific sites of historical atrocities such as the lynchings that once took place outside of the city's early jail near Grand Park.
The award committee called it "a precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity".
