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Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.

Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housing in Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song "Half Time" (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the soundtrack to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.

The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas's career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form, and was referred to on the more personal God's Son (2002), which was also a response to the death of Nas's mother. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.

Nas's penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010). Nasir (2018), produced by Kanye West, was regarded by many reviewers as disappointing, not least because it failed to address allegations of abuse from his former (2005-10) wife, singer Kelis. However, King's Disease (2020), which was produced by Hit-Boy, showed none of the defects that critics perceived in the previous release and won near-universal praise.

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Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes's gospel play. In 2018 he appeared in the independent film Monster, based on an acclaimed novel by Walter Dean Myers.

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The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched racist policies. In March of that year, in an effort to register Black voters in the South, protesters marching the 54-mile route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were confronted with deadly violence from local authorities and white vigilante groups. As the world watched, the protesters-under the protection of federalized National Guard troops-finally achieved their goal, walking around the clock for three days to reach Montgomery, Alabama. The historic march, and Martin Luther King Jr. 's participation in it, raised awareness of the difficulties faced by Black voters, and the need for a national Voting Rights Act.

Voter Registration Efforts in Alabama

Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbade discrimination in voting on the basis of race, efforts by civil rights organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC) to register Black voters met with fierce resistance in southern states such as Alabama.

But the civil rights movement was not easily deterred. In early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC decided to make Selma, located in Dallas County, Alabama, the focus of a Black voter registration campaign. King had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, and his profile would help draw international attention to the events that followed.

Alabama Governor George Wallace was a notorious opponent of desegregation, and the local county sheriff in Dallas County had led a steadfast opposition to Black voter registration drives.

As a result, only 2 percent of Selma's eligible Black voters (about 300 out of 15,000) had managed to register to vote.

Did you know? Ralph Bunche, who participated in the Selma to Montgomery March with Martin Luther King Jr., won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his successful negotiation of an Arab-Israeli truce in Palestine a year earlier.

Bloody Sunday

On February 18, white segregationists attacked a group of peaceful demonstrators in the town of Marion, Alabama. In the ensuing chaos, an Alabama state trooper fatally shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, a young African American demonstrator.

In response to Jackson's death, King and the SCLC planned a massive protest march from Selma to the state capitol of Montgomery, 54 miles away. A group of 600 people, including activists John Lewis and Hosea Williams, set out from Selma on Sunday, March 7, 1965 a day that would come to be known as " Bloody Sunday,"

The marchers didn't get far before Alabama state troopers wielding whips, nightsticks and tear gas rushed the group at the Edmund Pettus Bridge and beat them back to Selma. The brutal scene was captured on television, enraging many Americans and drawing civil rights and religious leaders of all faiths to Selma in protest.

Hundreds of ministers, priests, rabbis and social activists soon headed to Selma to join the voting rights march.

Edmund Pettus Bridge

On March 9, King led more than 2,000 marchers, Black and white, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge but found Highway 80 blocked again by state troopers. King paused the marchers and led them in prayer, whereupon the troopers stepped aside.

King then turned the protesters around, believing that the troopers were trying to create an opportunity that would allow them to enforce a federal injunction prohibiting the march. This decision led to criticism from some marchers, who called King cowardly.

That night, a group of segregationists attacked another protester; the young white minister James Reeb, beating him to death. Alabama state officials (led by Wallace) tried to prevent the march from going forward, but a U.S. district court judge ordered them to permit it.

LBJ Addresses Nation

Six days later, on March 15, President Lyndon B. Johnson went on national television to pledge his support to the Selma protesters and to call for the passage of a new voting rights bill that he was introducing in Congress.

"There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem," Johnson said, "Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negros, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome."

Some 2,000 people set out from Selma on March 21, protected by U.S. Army troops and Alabama National Guard forces that Johnson had ordered under federal control. After walking some 12 hours a day and sleeping in fields along the way, they reached Montgomery on March 25.

Nearly 50,000 supporters-Black and white-met the marchers in Montgomery, where they gathered in front of the state capitol to hear King and other speakers including Ralph Bunche (winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize) address the crowd.

"No tide of racism can stop us," King proclaimed from the building's steps, as viewers from around the world watched the historic moment on television.

Lasting Impact of the March

On March 17, 1965, even as the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers fought for the right to carry out their protest, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans from barriers that prevented them from voting.

That August, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which guaranteed the right to vote (first awarded by the 15th Amendment) to all African Americans. Specifically, the act banned literacy tests as a requirement for voting, mandated federal oversight of voter registration in areas where tests had previously been used and gave the U.S. attorney general the duty of challenging the use of poll taxes for state and local elections.

Along with the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act was one of the most expansive pieces of civil rights legislation in American history. It greatly reduced the disparity between Black and white voters in the U.S. and allowed greater numbers of African Americans to participate in politics and government at the local, state and national level.

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# NODAPL, also referred to as the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, is a Twitter hashtag and social media campaign for the struggle against the proposed and partially built Dakota Access Pipeline. The role social media played in this movement is so substantial that the movement itself is now often referred to by its hashtag: #NoDAPL. The hashtag reflected a grassroots campaign that began in early 2016 in reaction to the approved construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the northern United States. The Standing Rock Sioux and allied organizations took legal action aimed at stopping construction of the project, while youth from the reservation began a social media campaign which gradually evolved into a larger movement with dozens of associated hashtags. The campaign aimed to raise awareness on the threat of the pipeline on the sacred burial grounds as well as the quality of water in the area. In June 2021, a federal judge struck down the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's lawsuit, but left the option of reopening the case should any prior orders be violated.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a 1,172-mile-long (1,886 km) underground oil pipeline in the United States. It begins in the Bakken shale oil fields in northwest North Dakota and continues through South Dakota and Iowa to the oil tank farm near Patoka, Illinois. Together with the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline from Patoka to Nederland, Texas, it forms the Bakken system. The $3.78 billion project was announced to the public in June 2014, and the #NoDAPL movement began when Energy Transfer Partners announced its plans for an oil pipeline route across lands and waterways of cultural, spiritual and environmental significance to the Lakota Nation and other communities downstream.

The pipeline's impact on the environment has been controversial. A number of Native Americans in Iowa and the Dakotas, including the Meskwaki and several Sioux tribal nations, have opposed the pipeline under the assertion that it would threaten sacred burial grounds as well as the quality of water in the area. A protest at the pipeline site in North Dakota near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation drew international attention shortly after the announcement of this project. In September 2016, construction workers bulldozed a section of land that the tribe had identified as sacred ground, and when protesters entered the area, security workers used attack dogs which bit at least six of the protesters. The incident was filmed and viewed by several million people on YouTube and other social media.

The video footage of the attack dogs and usage of #NoDAPL on social media sparked more protests. In November 2016, police were filmed hitting protesters with water cannons in sub-zero temperatures. Authorities said the Iowa section of the pipeline was the target of arson in 2016. The pipeline suffered millions of dollars in damages due to deliberately set fires.

While protests went on near construction sites and legal battles continued in the courtroom, legislators also clashed over the pipeline. U.S. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced opposition to the pipeline in August 2016. Sanders, along with four other Senators, called for President Barack Obama to halt the pipeline's construction in October 2016.

The pipeline has been operational since 2017.

The movement was largely started by Indigenous youth, who used social media campaigns to create awareness for the cause. A young indigenous girl named Tokata Iron Eyes and her teenage friends are credited with starting the #NoDAPL movement. As part of the Standing Rock Youth, a group of about 30 young people from the Standing Rock Sioux community, they decided to go online and make the issue of the Dakota Access Pipeline Construction known.

Protests against the pipeline project captured the attention of Social Media users across the globe under the slogan #NoDAPL aka "No Dakota Access Pipeline."

The #NoDAPL movement utilized various social media platforms, such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, to gain awareness of the issue occurring at Standing Rock. The people's petition spread across social media and gained an immense support in a short amount of time.

The hashtag #NoDAPL was only the start for many hashtags that followed along on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to protest the pipeline. The hashtags #ReZpectOurWater, which is a play on "reservations," #StandWithStandingRock, and #WaterisLife gained great prominence as well. Activist Naomi Klein posted a Facebook video in which she interviewed a youth, Iron Eyes, which gained more than a million views in 24 hours. Facebook Live allowed large numbers of people to understand what is actually happening on the ground. For example, Facebook check-ins played a big role in spreading the issue to large audiences. Shortly after its creation, millions of tweets used the hashtags #NoDAPL or #StandWithStandingRock.

Celebrities have also showed support for the hashtag. Celebrities such as Shailene Woodley, Rosario Dawson, and many others have showed their support at protests and throughout social media. In October 2016, Woodley was arrested for criminal trespassing while demonstrating in Saint Anthony, North Dakota.

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The Native American protests against the Dakota Access pipeline have become an international rallying cry for indigenous rights and climate change activism, drawing thousands to the rural area of Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

As the controversial oil pipeline approaches the river that the Standing Rock Sioux tribe fears it will contaminate - and as a militarized police force continues to engage in tense standoffs with demonstrators - here is what we know so far.

What is the Dakota Access pipeline?

The Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) is a $3.7bn project that would transport crude oil from the Bakken oil field in North Dakota to a refinery to Patoka, Illinois, near Chicago.

The 1,172-mile pipeline, roughly 30 inches in diameter, would carry 470,000 barrels per day and is a project of company Energy Transfer Partners.

Who is opposing the project and why?

The local Standing Rock Sioux tribe and thousands of Native American supporters from across North America have set up camps in Cannon Ball to try and block the oil project. Opponents of DAPL say the project threatens sacred native lands and could contaminate their water supply from the Missouri river, which is the longest river in North America.

Activists call themselves " water protectors" and argue that the pipeline poses similar threats to the now defeated Keystone XL, but lament that DAPL has failed to garner the same amount of national attention. Tribal leaders also say that the US army corps of engineers' initial decision to allow the pipeline to run within a half-mile of the local reservation was done without consulting tribal governments and without a thorough study of impacts.

This means, the tribe says, that the project violates federal law and native treaties with the US government.

Where are the protests taking place?

The first protest camp emerged in April when members of the Standing Rock Lakota and other Native American nations rode on horseback and established a spiritual camp called Sacred Stone.

Several other large camps, featuring a diverse mix of tribes and non-native supporters, have since emerged nearby. The main camp where more than 1,000 are gathered is called Oceti Sakowin. The Standing Rock camps are all located about an hour south of Bismarck, North Dakota, though police have established strict roadblocks along 1806, the main local highway, meaning visitors have to head west and enter from the south to get to the demonstration.

Some of the camps are on lands controlled by the US army corps of engineers and other sites are on private land owned by Ladonna Allard, a member of the Dakota Sioux.

How far along is the project?

In North Dakota, the pipeline construction has rapidly advanced toward the protest camps and the Missouri river. As of the start of November, tribal leaders said it appeared as if the construction project was nearing completion - within a few miles of the water, maybe less. The tribe said the digging has already disrupted sacred burial grounds and that if the project goes under the river and gets any closer to the reservation, there could be irreversible damage to their land and cultural heritage.

Energy Transfer Partners recently said it is on track to have the entire pipeline "ready for service" by the end of 2016.

What tactics have protesters used to fight construction?

The protest camps have repeatedly emphasized that they intend to remain unarmed and peaceful. As the pipeline has gotten closer to the Missouri river, activists have attempted to set up camps and prayer circles on the property where construction is planned.

Youth leaders have often been on the frontlines of standoffs with police, at times facing Mace, rubber bullets and other threats from law enforcement. Elderly leaders have also led demonstrations.

How has the federal government responded?

The US army corps of engineers, along with a number of federal agencies, announced in September that it was reviewing its approvals and temporarily halting permits for construction on federal land near or under the Missouri river.

In his first remarks since protests escalated, Barack Obama said the army corps was studying whether the pipeline could be rerouted around sacred native lands. His comments, published on 1 November, did not include specific proposals or commitments and said the government was "going to let it play out for several more weeks and determine whether or not this can be resolved in a way that I think is properly attentive to the traditions of the first Americans".

How have police responded to demonstrations?

The Morton County sheriff's office, along with Cass County law enforcement and supporting police agencies from across the state, have formed a highly militarized police force that has aggressively targeted protesters attempting to block construction.

As of November, police have made more than 400 arrests, many of which occurred during two separate protest clashes within one week.

Police, who are often armed with large tanks and riot gear, have used pepper spray, teargas, rubber bullets, Tasers and other "less-than-lethal" tools to respond. Jack Dalrymple, North Dakota's governor, also called in the national guard.

Law enforcement leaders have charged Native Americans, journalists and film-makers, with rioting, criminal trespass, resisting arrest and a range of more serious felonies. Police have also been accused of human rights violations in their treatment of jailed protesters, and a United Nations group opened an investigation into local law enforcement.

Police officials claim that they have been forced to arrest protesters when they enter the property where construction is planned. Local officials have also slammed Obama, saying he has not done enough to help law enforcement and stop protesters.

What is the status of the tribe's court fight against the project?

The Standing Rock tribe is also fighting the project in court, arguing that the approvals of the project were improper and that the government has failed to do a study that would assess the large-scale impact of the pipeline.

But in September, federal judge James Boasberg ruled that the US army corps of engineers " likely complied " with the National Historic Preservation Act.

The tribe has also argued that the pipeline violates the United Nations' declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.

What has Energy Transfer Partners said about the protests?

Energy Transfer Partners said in court filings in September that the Dakota Access pipeline is 45% complete and that a temporary injunction to stop it would have "devastating short and long-term impacts". The company has also previously denounced "threats and attacks" perpetrated upon its employees.

In response to concerns of contamination and environmental hazards, DAPL has argued that pipelines are the safest, most efficient method of transporting oil. The company also claims that increased production in the Bakken oil field has led to a rise in the shipment of oil by rail and truck, leaving less transportation available for regional agriculture.

What have Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump said about DAPL?

After a group of Standing Rock youth staged a protest at the Brooklyn campaign headquarters of Hillary Clinton in late October, the Democratic presidential nominee released a short statement that did not take a stance on the pipeline or the protests.

She said she believed "all voices should be heard", adding: "It's important that on the ground in North Dakota, everyone respects demonstrators' rights to protest peacefully, and workers' rights to do their jobs safely."

Republican nominee Donald Trump has not publicly commented on the protests, but it was revealed in October that he has close financial ties to Energy Transfer Partners.

Who else is supporting the protesters?

The anti-pipeline movement has attracted support on the ground from actor Shailene Woodley, who was arrested while protesting, and Mark Ruffalo, who visited in October. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson also made an appearance at the site.

US senator Bernie Sanders, who lost to Clinton in the Democratic primary, has also issued numerous statements in support of the protest.

Green party candidate Jill Stein faced charges for graffiti at the pipeline protest.

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[Intro: Shailene Woodley]
They call it a pipeline
But those on the front line know, that black snake was sent for us to grow
To shed the skin, our ancestors pray, of wounds old and calloused, so that we may stay
So that we may unite, unity our tool
No weapons are found in this court of rule
Men become [?], steadfast in their guard
Protecting women's hearts as their songs become roots
Roots to cast out healing for all sentient beings
To honor sacred mother, heart forward we heal
The salmon will run, the mowna will grieve, the rivers will flow
The river is here and prophecy tells us all generation will hear

[Refrain: Taboo]
Stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up

[Verse 1: Taboo]
Stand up with the First Nations
A people that been livin' here for thousands of years (stand up)
We been fightin' for our freedoms since the Niña and Pinta and the Santa Maria (stand up)
Like Geronimo, Sittin' Bull, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Leonard Peltier
Now they poisonin' the waters for our sons and our daughters, so
We on the frontier (we one) one nation, one cause, one people, one tribe
Now it's us against the pipeline
Get on your feet for Standing Rock and we'll show you how strong we can be when we unify

[Chorus: PJ Vegas]
To all my native people
Recognize yourself, keep your head up
To all my tribal people
Recognize yourself, keep your head up
To all my native people, to all the original people, to all my indigenous people
Recognize yourself, keep your head up
Stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up
For Standin' Rock

[Verse 2: Emcee One]
From the beginnin' we was winnin' this game on Planet Earth
It's been spinnin', we been dyin' but givin' birth
The first of many nations, celebratin' them days when all that got made came after what God made
These days we cater to these internet memes, internet streams
It seems them streams aren't clean
We need the whole story seen, we're hassling before water has gasoline in it
Malcolm X moment, Martin Luther King with a dream and [?]
Wounded Knee and Alcatraz, doggonit
This is for the rock, with prayers we stand on it

[Verse 3: Drezus]
Oh yeah we playin' on with the Earth
We camp on it in a sweat lodge, singing our songs with grandfathers
Heat racks all on the spot, we splashin' on 'em
With a beatbox from my boy [?]
Said a prayer for the black snake killers
They on the front lines are the realest
Stand for your people, stand for your family
Stand for Standing Rock, stand for humanity

[Chorus: PJ Vegas]
To all my native people
Recognize yourself, keep your head up
To all my tribal people
Recognize yourself, keep your head up
To all my native people, to all the original people, to all my indigenous people
Recognize yourself, keep your head up
Stand up
Stand up, stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up, stand up
For Standin' Rock

[Bridge: Supaman]
[?] [Apsáalooke]

[Verse 4: Doc Battiest & Spencer Battiest]
To all my native people
Woke up to change, we won't go quiet
To all my tribal people
Don't mistake our peace, as we stand and fight
To all my native people
It's the calm before the storm and I can hear it comin'
To all my tribal people
I'm ready for the battle and we ain't runnin'

[Chorus]
Stand up
Stand up, stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up, stand up
For Standing Rock, for Standing Rock
Stand up, stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up, stand up
For Standing Rock, for Standing Rock

[Verse 5: Temryss Lane]
Standing Rock where standing feet
As history is on the sad repeat
Is it liberty, or are we just acting free?
As our land depletes from these hands of greed
See, fate is found, how we face the hounds
Take a vow for your sacred grounds
Make a sound that'll shake 'em out
Say aloud "what can save us now?"
What can save us now?

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