uprising

But even “A Different World” hit its limits when it plunged the audience inside the Black folks’ shock and despair after the 1992 Los Angeles uprising.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

Nationwide, some 50,000 people were detained in connection to the uprising, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a U.S.-based rights group that monitors the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The uprising is a sight to behold, and this summer I went to Albania and beheld it.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

He is doing it on the 50th birthday of an elegant declaration spawned by a citizen uprising aimed at preserving the state’s greatest treasure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

In the wake of the Soweto uprising, the authorities had decided that the island would become the exclusive home of South Africa’s “security prisoners.”

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Then it weathered the Arab Spring uprisings around the region which saw off leaders in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

In countries like Bangladesh, India and Nepal, youth-led anti-government uprisings have over the past 12 months rallied immense support against the various pressure points of corruption, nepotism, economic inequality and democratic backsliding.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

The federal government was given the responsibility for putting down rebellions, which in practice meant crushing slave uprisings and resistance.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

The intifada refers to the Palestinian civilian uprisings against Israel in 1987-1993 and the early 2000s.

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

To make matters worse, riots erupted in the summer of 1964 in Harlem and Rochester, followed by a series of uprisings that swept the nation following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander