The Vikings
Pillage, rape, and plunder–these are the acts we most readily associate with the Vikings. But now, new evidence suggests that some lesser-known endeavors, including building, navigating, and colonizing, may have been what really helped them [...]
Childrens War
For the last twenty-two years, the nightmare has begun at sundown in Acholiland, Northern Uganda. Under the cover of darkness, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has kidnapped, enslaved, raped and forcibly conscripted more than 20,000 [...]
Blood Diamonds
Sierra Leone, once exporting a lucrative 2 million karats of diamonds per year, would fall victim to political greed and become one of the poorest nations on earth — ripe for revolution. In 1991, a [...]
Roger Coleman Story, The
In May 1992, Roger Keith Coleman was executed by the state of Virginia for the rape and murder of his sister-in-law, Wanda McCoy. For years after his death, Coleman’s supporters battled to exonerate him and [...]
