Informing, engaging & connecting the people of the world. NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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Hong Kong pro-democracy forces scored a sweeping victory in local elections Sunday which saw a record number of voters deliver a stunning rebuke to Beijing.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On November 25, 1783, the last British troops leave New York City, their last military position in the United States. The American Revolutionary War officially ended on September 3, 1783 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, but the British maintained a presence in New York, which they had captured in 1776. After their departure, a triumphant George Washington entered the city to the cheers of New Yorkers. New York was the site of Washington’s inauguration and was the capital of the U.S. until 1790, when it moved to Philadelphia.

State-controlled media in China on Monday downplayed the landslide electoral victory claimed by pro-democracy Hong Kongers with an editorial calling the race an “unfair… manipulation.”

In the final segments of the “Climbing the Hill” series of stories about freshmen congressmen, VOA profiles Democrat Katie Porter from California and Republican Pete Stauber of Minnesota.

VIDEO: Feature films on slavery have been part of Hollywood since the beginning of the film industry in United States. However, it’s only recently that movies on slavery have been told from the perspective of the slaves. “Harriet,” the latest of antebellum dramas, focuses on Harriet Tubman a female runaway slave who worked on the Underground Railroad that helped slaves escape the South.

VIDEO: During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, some 800,000 people, primarily ethnic Tutsis, died at the hands of ethnic Hutus. Blood flowed throughout the central African country though less so in one remote northern town.