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

One state away, a twin uprising was under way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

According to Abdel Nasser Elyessa, a research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Studies of the International Academy for Counter-Terrorism, this was a simple "uprising" within the army, without outside influence.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

And with each British victory, more African Americans deserted farms and plantations in what has been called the “largest slave uprising in our history.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Crisscrossing Europe in search of fellow revolutionaries, he thrilled to the antibourgeois and antimonarchist uprisings in Paris, Rome and other cities in 1848.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

Uche Okeke memorializes the Aba Women’s War of 1929, one of the first major anticolonial uprisings in Nigeria, with a throng of seething figures, their strength and determination reflected in vigorous brushstrokes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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