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Wilmington, North Carolina once had a thriving Black middle class and an elected interracial government. In 1898 white supremacists used violence to overthrow that government, kill Black residents and drive many others from the city.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Sakachep | |
|---|---|
| Khelma/Achep | |
| Region | India |
| Ethnicity | Khelma (Sakachep) |
Native speakers | 25,000 (2003)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sch |
| Glottolog | saka1283 |
Sakachep also known as Khelma, is a Central Kuki-Chin-Mizo language of Northeast India. Dialects are Khelma, Achep, Mar-Achep (Marachepang), Thang Achep, and Sak Achep (Ethnologue). VanBik (2009)[2] classifies Sakachep as closely related to Aimol, Anal, Chiru, Kharam, Koireng (Koren), Kom, Lamkang, Purum, Biate, Chorei, Ranglong, Molsom, Hrangkhol, Kaipeng, Bongcher and Thiek-Hmar.
Ethnologue reports the following locations for Sakachep.
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Sakachep also known as Khelma, is a Central Kuki-Chin-Mizo language of Northeast India. Dialects are Khelma, Achep, Mar-Achep (Marachepang), Thang Achep, and Sak Achep (Ethnologue). VanBik (2009) classifies Sakachep as closely related to Aimol, Anal, Chiru, Kharam, Koireng (Koren), Kom, Lamkang, Purum, Biate, Chorei, Ranglong, Molsom, Hrangkhol, Kaipeng, Bongcher and Thiek-Hmar.
Khelma may refer to: Khelma people or Sakachep, one of the old Kuki tribe from northeast India Khelma language or Sakachep, their Kuki-Chin (Sino-Tibetan) language Khelma, Peren, Nagaland, India
Assamese, also known by its endonyms Asamiya or Oxomiya (অসমীয়া Ôxômiya [ɔxɔmija] ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It has long served as a lingua franca in parts of Northeast India. It has over 15 million native speakers and 8.3 million second language speakers according to Ethnologue, although this claim is widely disputed by academics, based on census figures. Assamese was designated as a classical Indian language by the Government of India on 3 October 2024 on account of its antiquity and literary traditions. Nefamese, an Assamese-based pidgin in Arunachal Pradesh, was used as a lingua franca before being replaced by Hindi; and Nagamese, an Assamese-based Creole language, continues to be widely used in Nagaland. The Kamtapuri language of Rangpur Division of Bangladesh and the Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri districts of India is linguistically closest to Assamese and they both are descended from the Kamarupi Prakrit. In the past, it was the court language of the Ahom kingdom from the 17th century. After the differentiation of Maithili and Odia, Assamese was in its formative stages in the 12th century CE from the middle Indo-Aryan Magadhi Prakrit. Its sister languages include Angika, Bengali, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Chakma, Chittagonian, Hajong, Rajbangsi, Surjapuri, Maithili, Rohingya and Sylheti. It has been written in the Assamese script till the 20th century, and the Bengali-Assamese script from the mid-19th century, which are abugida systems, from left to right, with many typographic ligatures.
Meitei ( ; ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ pronounced [mejtejlon]), also known as Manipuri (ꯃꯅꯤꯄꯨꯔꯤ pronounced [mənipuɾi]), is a Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India. It is the official language and the lingua franca of Manipur and an additional official language in four districts of Assam. It is one of the constitutionally scheduled official languages of the Indian Republic. Meitei is the most widely-spoken Tibeto-Burman language of India and the third most widely spoken language of northeast India after Assamese and Bengali. There are 1.76 million Meitei native speakers in India according to the 2011 census, 1.52 million of whom are found in the state of Manipur, where they represent the majority of its population. There are smaller communities in neighbouring Indian states, such as Assam (168,000), Tripura (24,000), Nagaland (9,500), and elsewhere in the country (37,500). The language is also spoken by smaller groups in neighbouring Myanmar and Bangladesh. Meitei and Gujarati jointly hold the third place among the fastest growing languages of India, following Hindi and Kashmiri. Meitei is not endangered: its status has been assessed as safe by Ethnologue (where it is assigned to EGIDS level 2 "provincial language"). However, it is considered vulnerable by UNESCO. Imphal dialect, also known as Standard Manipuri, is the standard dialect of Meitei language, and is natively spoken in Imphal, the capital city of Manipur state, and around the Greater Imphal administrative zone, and is used in administration, education, media, literature, widely across the state and abroad. Meitei serves as the lingua sacra (holy and sacred language) of Sanamahism, the indigenous religion of Manipur, through its liturgical register, Amailon, which is used in the traditional rites and rituals of Sanamahists. The Manipuri language is associated with the Ningthouja dynasty (Mangangs), the Khuman dynasty, the Moirangs, the Angoms, the Luwangs, the Chengleis (Sarang-Leishangthems), and the Khaba-Nganbas. Each had their respective distinct dialects and were politically independent from one another. Later, all of them fell under the dominion of the Ningthouja dynasty, changing their status of being independent "ethnicities" into those of "clans" of the collective Meitei community. The Ningthouja dialect was predominant, and received heavy influences from the speech forms of the other groups. Meitei is one of the advanced literary languages recognised by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. Meitei is the only non-tribal Indian language in the Sino–Tibetan language family. It is the only Sino-Tibetan language of India whose literary tradition is well established before the starting he colonial times. The use of writing systems in Tibeto-Burman languages appears to be very restricted. Meitei (or Manipuri) is one of four Tibeto-Burman languages with an old written tradition (the other three being Tibetan, Burmese, and Newar).
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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