Lenin Orders More Strenuous Food Levies -- Germans Cold to Calls for Help. New York Times, July 19, 1921 BERLIN, July 18 -- Russia is entering on the worst famine within memory and one not exaggerated ...

NEW YORK -- Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts aimed to do a lot of good - helping to raise over $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and inspiring worldwide awareness for a cause ...

President Donald Trump made his entrance to the Thanksgiving celebration at his Mar-a-Lago club to a song best known as an ...

CAIRO (AP) — Food aid is on the way to an area of Sudan facing famine amid the northeast African country's grinding conflict, a group of countries and the United Nations said in a joint statement ...

Making charitable gifts via cellphone isn’t just a developed-world phenomenon. The Kenyans for Kenya campaign is raising money to aid victims of that country’s famine, part of the larger humanitarian ...

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Forty years ago, music history was made when simultaneous concerts in London and Philadelphia raised money for famine relief. Beyond the dollars, Live Aid supercharged how benefit concerts could make ...

When Anelise Hanson Shrout was in graduate school at New York University, she read an account about how the Choctaw Nation donated to Ireland during the Great Famine, not long after the U.S. federal ...

It was 100 years ago when America heard cries for help from Russia during the Great Famine of 1921. In August of that year, Americans took action following an appeal from the Russian writer Maxim ...

People in Ireland inspired by an act of generosity committed more than 170 years ago are paying it forward. In 1847, the Choctaw people collected $170 to send to people in Ireland who were starving ...

The 1985 Live Aid concerts were the brainchild of musician and activist Bob Geldof and musician Midge Ure. Taking place simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, England and the John F. Kennedy ...

A mass exodus, an emptying of half a country, is an unprecedented, biblical event. What triggered it? The immediate cause was drought. Rains failed last October in East Africa, then again in April, ...