The decade of the 2010’s is over. Yet, that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t evaluate its compositions.

The
2010’s was a time of an acceleration of social realities. It started with the continuing of the global
economic recession. It saw the growth of new technologies in dealing with cell phones, TV shows, etc. It
saw the development of more inclusion of diverse people on various media, and it was the time of new
social movements establishing their unique identities (like Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the
extremist Tea Party people, MeToo, Say Her Name, etc.). Increased CO2 levels and record temperature
document the reality of climate change. The UK began its split from the EU. New online streaming
services from Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, etc. had a very popular audience. The 2010’s saw music
influenced by mumble rap, a meiotic type of voice, and digitalized record sales plus digital platforms in
expanding musical expression. Also, it was a time of wars, police brutality, new social changes, debates
on civil liberties (as expounded upon by Edward Swonden, other whistleblowers, etc.) political
polarization, and the geopolitical competition between the superpower America and the rising power of
China. The 2020’s saw the end of the duration of the First African American President Barack Obama
(including the beginning of the racist & sexist Donald Trump as President). The end of the 2010’s saw a
Presidential election developing, and the era of the international pandemic in its infancy.
 From left, Allyson Felix, Carmelita Jeter, Bianca Knight and
Tianna Madison after their world record in the women’s 4x100-
meter relay.

Credit: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

Contents
1. Prologue

2. The Early Part of

the Decade

3. Massive
Developments

4. The End of the

Decade

5. The Start of 2020

 Spring, with repercussions from services, and international
the conflicts continuing into the concerts have made music even
A s we analyze the 2010’s, and 2020s. Today, America is a global
superpower with China being
more accessible than 10 years ago.
Osama bin Laden was
we are experiencing the start of assertive in trade deals with other assassinated by U.S. forces in
the 2020s, we witness a lot of nations (and their economic Pakistan. The ISIS movement
changes in the world initiatives). America and China spread in the 2010s before its
atmosphere. The start of the still have disputes in the South defeat in Iraq as a governmental
2010s saw a global entity. Russia's
financial recession influence and
worldwide, more power has
awareness of climate expanded. The
change, and the migrant crisis as a
complexities of the war on result of wars and
terror. The European economic
sovereign debt crisis dislocation have
existed along with allowed people of
austerity policies being color (black people
executed in Portugal, After the death of Michael Brown in 2014, Ferguson had and those of
Ireland, Greece, and an uprising. It represented a new era of the black Arabic descent) to
Spain. Economic factors freedom struggle where youth wanted an end to police travel into Europe.
led to the rise of populist brutality, the militarization of the police, and other evils It is the largest
movements like 15-M and in our world. Nothing would be the same again. The migrant crisis since
Occupy movements. That image you’re seeing show the police using tear gas on the end of World
human beings.
is why Occupy Wall Street War II. Many
grew heavily in NYC and China Sea and in Africa over Europeans hypocritically want
worldwide. The economic and political plus financial interests. no migrants when European
political problems in the Middle North Korea and South Korea imperialists are known for
East caused some unrest in still are debating their futures. stealing land plus resources in the
Kyrgyzstan, Tunisia, Egypt, Music and culture increasingly Middle East plus Africa.
Bahrain and Yemen, as well as became more globalized with
civil wars in Libya and Syria, in a artists like Beyonce, Rihanna, The Internet in the 2010s have
widespread phenomenon Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Nas, advanced with wireless
commonly referred to in the Adele, Lizzo, Jay Z, etc. That is networking devices, mobile
Western world as the Arab why cloud services, streaming
telephones, and cloud
computing. There is now 5G
broadband and data being
displayed in many locations.
iPhone 11 is here presently.
Debates about civil liberties are
represented by the stories of
Edward Snowden and Julian
Assange. We still have a problem
with mass surveillance and
information privacy (and how
private entities and the
government must not violate
human civil liberties). That is
The early 2010’s saw massive
developments in world history.
At the start of 2010 on January,
the tallest man-made structure
to date called the Burj Halifa in
Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
officially opened. The 7.0
magnitude Earthquake occurred
in Haiti. It killed tons of people
in Port-au-Prince, and
throughout Haiti. Many
charities helped many people.
Over 316,000 people died from
the earthquake which was the
why even during the years when
George W. Bush was President, I
opposed the Patriot Act on civil
liberty grounds. There are more
women and other representation
in parts of society, but
oppression is still here in a high
level globally. Major natural
disasters included the 2010 Haiti
earthquake, the 2011 Tōhoku
earthquake and tsunami, the
Nepal earthquake of 2015, the
2018 Sulawesi earthquake and
tsunami, and the devastating
tenth deadliest on record. To
this very day, Haitians are
fighting for justice. Haitian
residents are opposed to the
corrupt not only found in some
governmental leaders but from
also big corporate foundations
(including NGOs plus corrupt
UN Peacekeepers) that are
exploiting Haiti's wealth. Yemen
battled al-Qaeda. The Chadian
Civil War ended in early 2010.
By February of 2010, another
Earthquake happened in Chile
hurricanes of Harvey, Irma,
Maria, Dorian, Haiyan
(Yolanda) and Sandy. The
Dorian Hurricane has destroyed
lives heavily in the Bahamas in
2019. The Black Lives Matter
movement defined a decade in
them confronting police
brutality. Various other populist
movements in general
dominated this era of time too.
Therefore, the 2010's certainly
made history in enumerable
ways.
with an 8.8 magnitude. In April
of 2010, there was an explosion
at the Deepwater Horizon oil
drilling platform in the Gulf of
Mexico. It killed 11 workers.
Later, the Horizon oil spill came
about. It was one of the largest
oil spills in history. It spread for
month and damaged the waters
of America. Many animal
species were destroyed because
of that oil spill. People soon
debated offshore drilling and
corporations were sued. The
European sovereign debt crisis
continued in April 27, 2010
when Standard and Poor's
downgraded Greece's sovereign
credit rating to junk 4 days after
the activation of a €45-billion
EU–IMF bailout, triggering the
decline of stock markets
worldwide and of the euro's
value. By May of 2010, the IMF
and Eurozone bailout Greece,
but they issued Greek austerity
measures. In Thailand, there
was a political clash. On July 25,
2010, WikiLeaks, an online
publisher of anonymous, covert,
and classified material, leaks to
the public over 90,000 internal
reports about the United States-
led involvement in the War in
Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
In August of 2010, the WHO
called the H1N1 influenza
pandemic as over. Germany
makes its final reparation
payment for World War I on
October 6, 2010. On November
13, 2010, Burmese opposition
politician Aung San Suu Kyi was
released from her house arrest
after being incarcerated since
1989. By December 17, 2010,
there was the attempted
suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi, a
street vendor in Tunisia, which
triggered the Tunisian
Revolution. This led to the wider
Arab Spring throughout the
Arab world. In January of 2011,
the Arab Spring spread across
the Middle East. Many people in
the Arab Spring were sincere
about desiring freedom and
justice. Others were aided by
the neo-cons and Western
interests. South Sudan by 2011
created a new nation.
On February 11, 2011, the
Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak resigned after
widespread protests in Egypt
call for his departure. Egypt
became in control of the
military until a general election
was created. It is not a secret
that the U.S. sends tons of
military aid to Egypt. It sends
the second most to the Middle
East to Egypt except Israel
(which is number one). In the
words of General Anthony Zinni,
former Commander of US
Central Command (CENTCOM):
“Egypt is the most important
country in my area of
responsibility because of the
access it gives me to the
region.” In turn General Martin
Dempsey, chairman of the US
Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in
permanent contact with his
counterpart General Sedki
Sobhi, chief of staff of Egypt’s
Supreme Council of the Armed
Forces (SCAF): "Pentagon
officials declined to give
specifics on the conversations
between Hagel and al-Sisi, but
chief Pentagon spokesman
George Little said that “US
officials at all levels [of the
military] have made it clear that
we support the democratic
process in Egypt and that we
hope that this period of tension
can be resolved in a peaceful
manner and that violence can
be avoided…” (Military.com).
In March of 2011, there was the
civil uprising phrase of the
Syrian Civil War. This was when
15 youths in Daraa are arrested
for scrawling graffiti on their
school wall denouncing the
regime of President Bashar al-
Assad. The tsunami in Japan on
March 11, 2011 in a 9.0
magnitude Earthquake killed
15,840 people. 3,926 people
were missing. It harmed nuclear
power plants in the region too.
On March 15, 2011, Hamad bin
Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain,
declared a three-month state of
emergency as troops from the
Gulf Co-operation Council are
sent to quell the civil unrest. On
March 15, 2011, Protests
breakout across Syria
demanding democratic reforms,
the resignation of President
Bashar al-Assad, and the release
of those imprisoned for the
March 6 Daraa protest. The
government responded by
killing hundreds of protesters
and laying siege to various
cities, beginning the Syrian Civil
War. On March 17, 2011, the
United Nations Security Council
votes 10–0 to create a no-fly
zone over Libya in response to
allegations of government
aggression against civilians. In
Libya, Libyan rebels fight the
forces of Muammar Gaddafi’s
military. Later, French fighters
make use reconnaissance flights
over Libya in March of 2011.
Prince William and Catherine
Middleton marry at
Westminster Abbey in London
on April 29, 2011. On May 1,
2011, U.S. President Barack
Obama announced that Osama
bin Laden (the founder and
leader of al-Qaeda) was killed in
Pakistan (via an American
military operation). People
celebrated worldwide. On July
21, 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis
landed successfully at Kennedy
Space Center after completing
STS-135, concluding NASA's
Space Shuttle program. On July
22, 2011, in Norway, Anders
Behring Breivik killed 8 people
in a bomb blast which targeted
government buildings in central
Oslo, then kills 69 at a massacre
at a Workers' Youth League
camp on the island of Utøya.
Anders was a racist and
extremist who hatred
immigrants and non-white
people. On September of 2011,
Occupy Wall Street protests
occurred nationwide and
worldwide.
Occupy Wall Street want to end
economic oppression by the 1%.
October 18, 2011 was the time
of the Gilad Shalit prisoner
exchange: Israel and the
Palestinian militant organization
Hamas begin a major prisoner
exchange, in which the captured
Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit
is released by Hamas in
exchange for 1,027 Palestinian
and Israeli-Arabic prisoners held
in Israel, including 280 prisoners
serving life sentences for
planning and perpetrating
terror attacks. Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi was killed in
Sirte on October 20, 2011 with
the National Transitional
Council forces ruling the city.
The war in Libya ended.
Afterwards, there have been
more conflicts in Libya, black
African people being murdered
by Arabic racists in Libya, and
slave trading of black African
people. Slave auctions against
black Libyans have been talked
about for years to this very day.
I don’t ever forget that evil.
According to the
Professor Maximilian Forte
(from Montreal’s Concordia
University): "Racial fear and
xenophobia were at the very
crux of the first public calls for
Western military intervention,
and were the basis for the first
utterance of the need for a “no-
fly zone” … The myth of the
“African mercenary” was useful
for the Libyan opposition, the
NTC [National Transitional
Council] and the militias, to
insist that this was a war
between “Gaddafi and ‘the
Libyan people,’ as if he had no
domestic support at all…" His
book, Slouching Towards Sirte:
NATO’s War on Libya and
Africa, contains essential
summary context laying out the
role that international media
played in 2011 and after,
including CNN itself, in fueling
the xenophobic campaign to
scapegoat Libya’s over one
million strong black population
as “pro-Gaddafi mercenaries."
By December 15, 2011, America
ended its war in Iraq. The start
of 2012 saw a bombing in
Pakistan. The European Union
adopted an embargo against
Iran over Iran trying to enrich
uranium. On March 22, 2012,
the President of Mali, Amadou
Toumani Touré, is ousted in a
coup d'état after mutinous
soldiers attacked government
offices. Putin was elected
President of Russia on May 7,
2012. Muslim Brotherhood
member Mohamed Morsi was
elected President of Egypt on
June 30, 2012 (which was
controversial). On July of 2012,
the Aurora, Colorado mass
shooting happened by James
Holmes. He killed 12 people
with 58 people being injured at
a movie theater. Turkish
adventurer Erden Eruç becomes
the first person in history to
complete a solo human-
powered circumnavigation of
the Earth on July 21, 2012. The
historic 2012 London Summer
Olympics was held at London,
England, United Kingdom. The
rover called Curiosity landed on
Mars in August. November 2012
was when Barack Obama was
reelected President of the
United Sates. Barack Obama
defeated Mitt Romney in a hard
fought election. Barack Obama
saw 2 terms as President. The
Sandy Hook mass shooting
happened at Sandy Hook,
Connecticut by December of
2012.
Sandy Hook is an elementary
school where the killer
murdered 28 people including
the gunman was killed too. By
January 2013, people died in
Pakistan after bomb blasts.
French military forces go into
Mali to target Ansar Dine. North
Korea has its nuclear test on
February 12, 2013. By February
of 2012, American scientists
used a 3D printer to create a
living lab-grown ear from
collagen and animal ear cell
cultures. In the future, it is
hoped that similar ears could be
grown to order as transplants
for human patients suffering
from ear trauma or amputation.
Pope Francis became Pope on
March 13, 2013. He is the first
Jesuit Pope. On June 6, 2013,
Former CIA employee Edward
Snowden disclosed operations
engaged in by a U.S.
government mass surveillance
program to news publications
and fled the country, later being
granted temporary asylum in
Russia. To this day, Snowden
can’t go back to America
without being arrested. A movie
about his life was created by
Oliver Stone. PlayStation 4 was
released in November of 2013.
By 2014, more developments
have occurred. In February of
2014, there was the Ebola virus
epidemic in West Africa. It killed
over 11,000 people. The Winter
Olympic was in February of
2014 in Sochi, Russia. In the
same month, there was the
Ukrainian Revolution. The
Malaysia Airline Flight 370
crashed into the Indian Ocean
on March 8, 2014. Russia takes
over Crimea later on. Donetsk
declared independence from
Ukraine. On April 14, 2014,
about 276 girls and women
were kidnapped and held
hostage from a school in
Nigeria. The Boko Haram
terrorists are involved in the
kidnapping. Afterwards, the
Save Our Girls movements
existed in trying to rescue the
Nigerian girls. The Flint water is
switched causing the 2014 Flint
water crisis. Barack Obama
executed new economic
sanctions against Russia. On
June 5, 2014, a Sunni militant
group (really not representative
of any religions) called the
Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (also known as the ISIS
or ISIL) begins an offensive
through northern Iraq, aiming
to capture the Iraqi capital city
of Baghdad and overthrow the
Shiite government led by Prime
Minister Nouri al-Malik.
Germany won the 2014 FIFA
World Cup in Brazil. People fight
ISIL by June. In 2014, the police
shooting of Michael Brown in
Ferguson, Missouri caused a
new era of the black freedom
movement. The Black Lives
Matter movement (whichwas
made by 3 black women in
2013) and other social
movements increased their
power to confront police
brutality. Scotland voted against
independence in a September
2014 referendum. The
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) released
the final part of its Fifth
Assessment Report, warning
that the world faces "severe,
pervasive and irreversible"
damage from global emissions
of CO2 (on November 2, 2014).
The One World Trade Center
was opened on November 3,
2014 or the tallest building in
the Western Hemisphere.
Japanese sent a space probe
into space. U.S. President
Barack Obama announced
resumption of normal relations
with the U.S. and Cuba by
December 17, 2014. On
December 28, 2014, Indonesia
AirAsia Flight 8501 from
Surabaya, Indonesia to
Singapore crashes into the Java
Sea just southwest of Borneo,
killing all 162 people on board.
The 2010’s was a very eventful
decade indeed.
2015 is a year of mighty developments. On
January 1, 2015, the Eurasian Economic Union
came into effect. It created a political and
economic union between Russia, Belarus,
Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Lithuania
adopted the euro as its currency replacing the
litas. It is the 19th Eurozone country to have done
so on that date. There was a large massacre in
Baga, Nigeria by Boko Haram when that group
destroyed villages. More than 2,000 people were
killed in villages from January 3-7, 2015. In Paris,
France, 2 gunmen (belonging to Al-Qaeda’s
Yemen branch) killed 12 people and injured 11
more at the Paris headquarters of the satirical
newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Demonstrations
occurred against terrorism. Charlie Hebdo made
xenophobic, racist images for years, but people
should not be murdered because of their
reprehensible views. People should agree to
disagree on issues peacefully and without
violence. Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram
fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon. Yemeni President
Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi resigned in January 22,
2015 after unrest plus the Houthi rebels (who are
mostly Shia) seized the Presidential palace. On
February 12, 2015, both Ukraine and Russia had a
ceasefire and fighting still continues. Egypt
attacked ISIL forces in Libya after ISIL members
beheaded over a dozen Egyptian Christians. From
March 5-8, ISIL forces destroyed the ancient cities
of Nimrod, Hatra, and Dur Sharrukin. NASA’s
Dawn probe went to the orbit of Ceres, which is a
dwarf planet. A total social eclipse occurred on
March 20, 2015 on the North Atlantic, and Faroe
Islands, Svalbard. This was the 61st eclipse of the
120th saros cycle that started on May 27, 983 and
will end on July 7, 2195. Saudi Arabia led an
offensive against Yemen on March 25, 2015. Al-
Shahaab used terrorism and killed 148 people,
mostly students in Kenya. An April 25 earthquake
in 2015 has killed many people in Nepal, China,
and Bangladesh. ISIS captured the ancient city of
Palmyra in Syria by May 21, 2015. On May 23,
2015 Ireland votes to legalize same sex marriage
being the first country to legalize same sex
marriage by popular vote. On June 17, 2015, nine
African Americans were murdered by the coward
Dylan Roof at the Charleston Church shooting at
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in
downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The
Charleston community came together in unity to
fight racism and eliminate that Confederate flag
from Capitol grounds. That elimination of that
Confederate flag was very historic. Bree
Newsome took the flag down previous to the
state government doing it. On June 26, 2015, the
Supreme Court decided on Obergefell v. Hodges
that same sex marriage is recognized in all 50
states. The decision was a 5-4 decision.
On June 30, 2015, Cuba was the first nation on
Earth to eradicate mother to child transmission of
HIV and syphilis. Greece struggles to pay off its
debt. Sandra Bland died mysteriously in jail on
July 13, 2015 after she was pulled over for a
traffic stop in Texas. On July 14, 2015, the Iranian
nuclear deal exists and NASA’s New Horizons
spacecraft fly over Pluto. Turkey attacks ISIL too.
By September 1, Queen Elizabeth II became the
longest reigning British monarch in history. Russia
supports the Syrian government and uses air
strikes on ISIL on September 30, 2015. Gunmen
fire at a workplace in San Bernardino, California.
14 people were killed. ISIL claimed responsibility.
On December 15, 2015, the Islamic Military
Counter Terrorism Coalition was formed in order
to fight terrorism.
In 2016, more occurrences transpired. On January
3, 2016, the execution of Mir al-Nimr has caused
Saudi Arabia and other countries to end their
diplomatic relations with Iran. Joaquin Guzman
was recaptured on January 8, 2016 after his
escape from a maximum security prison in
Mexico. On January 16, 2016, the International
Atomic Energy Agency said that Iran has
adequately dismantled its nuclear weapons
programs, allowing the United Nations to lift
sanctions immediately. Terrorism happened in
Burkina Faso in a hotel and restaurants. 176
hostages were released. 30 people were killed,
and 56 people were injured. Zika virus is
worldwide by January 28. Pope Francis and
Patriarch Krill of the Orthodox Church signed an
Ecumenical Declaration. This is the first such
meeting since their schism in 1054. Convicted war
criminal Congolese former Vice President Jean-
Pierre Bemba is guilty of war crimes and crimes
against humanity (like sexual violence). Bombings
in Brussels have happened. 49 people were killed,
and 53 people were injured at a gay nightclub
called the Pulse in Orlando, Florida on June 12,
2016. The murderer was the 29 year old security
guard Omar Mateen. The gunman claimed
allegiance to the Islamic state. The Brexit
movement starts in June 23 when the UK votes
on a referendum to leave the European Union.
ISIL is suspected in the 2016 Ataturk Airport
attack on June 28. The historic 2016 Summer
Olympics are held in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. This is
the first time it was held in a South American
nation. The Summer Olympic Games happened
from August 5-21, 2016. On September 24, 2016,
the National Museum of African American History
and Culture (NHAAHC) was opened to the public.
That was a very historic event. It is a museum of
magnificent architectural beauty that showcases
the power of Blackness. It had 1.9 million visitors
in 2018. It is a gorgeous, powerful, and important
museum. It has about 40,000 collections of items.
It records the culture and history of African
Americans for centuries. It was started decades
ago. The authorization to make the museum
came about in 2003. The NMAAHC is a
magnificent display of what black culture is all
about. By September 28, 2016, Global CO2 levels
exceeded 400 ppm at the time of the year that
usually exists with minimum levels. This level is
higher than anything experienced in human
history according to many. On November 2, 2016,
the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the
first time in American sports history. November
8, 2016 was the date that will live in infamy. It
was the end of the 2016 Presidential election in
America where Trump won by the Electoral
College. Also, we find that U.S. intelligence
agencies found out that Russian government
officials used computer hacking to try to interfere
with the U.S. election process. Trump bragged
about sexual improprieties. WikiLeaks released
thousands of private emails from inside the
political campaign of candidate Hillary Clinton. On
December 23, 2016, the United Nations Security
Council adopted Resolution 2334, condemning
Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories
occupied since 1967. On December 31, 2016, the
United States troops start to withdraw from
Afghanistan after 15 years.
On 2017, we see new developments. On January
1, 2017, there was the Istanbul nightclub shooting
with a gunman dressing up as Santa Claus.
January 20, 2017 was when Donald Trump was
sworn in as President. By January 21, 2017,
millions of people worldwide join the Women’s
March in response to the inauguration of Donald
Trump as President of the United States. 420
marches were reported in America. On January
30, 2017, Morocco rejoined the African Union.
North Korea tested a ballistic missile over the Sea
of Japan on February 11, 2017. Kim Jon-nam was
assassinated by 2 women with VX nerve agent at
Kaula Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
He was the eldest son of the deceased Kim Jong-
Il. March 20, 2017 was when the UN warned of
the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, Somalia, South
Sudan, and Nigeria as the biggest humanitarian
crisis since the days of World War II. A terror
attack was outside the Palace of Westminster in
London, killed 5 people and injuring 50 others on
March 22, 2017. The U.S. drops the MOAB bomb
at the ISIL base in eastern Afghanistan on April 13,
2017. MOAB is the world’s largest non-nuclear
weapon. By May 9, 2017, Trump fired FBI
Director James Comey This has led to the calls for
the appointment of a special counsel. On May 17,
2017, former FBI Director Robert Mueller was
appointed Special Counsel for the U.S.
Department of Justice to investigate the Russian
interference in the 2016 Presidential election. A
terrorist bombing attack was at an Ariana Grande
concert in Manchester, England. 22 people were
killed and more than 500 people were
injured. The U.S. left the Paris Climate
Agreement by June of 2017. Another Islamist
terror attack happened on London Bridge that
killed 8 people and injured 48 others on June 3,
2017. By June, Theresa May is a leader in the UK
with Jeremy Corbyn gaining power of the Labour
party. Cyberattacks happened in Ukraine. Mosul
was liberated from ISIL by July 10, 2017.
The violence in Charlottesville, Virginia happened
at the racist, anti-Semitic Unite the Right Rally on
the date of August 11-12, 2017. Heather Heyer,
who was a counter protester, was killed after
being hit by a car by a white supremacist.
Violence against innocent protesters happened
that the location by neo-Nazis, anti-Semities, neo-
Confederates, and other far right extremists.
Trump once said that there were good people on
both sides which is a lie. A total solar eclipse is
seen in America on August 21, 2017. Harvey was a
hurricane in a Category 4 that damaged the
Houston metropolitan area (especially with
record breaking floods). 108 deaths were
recorded and damage was $125 billion making
Harvey the costliest natural disaster in United
States history (it landed on soil by August 26,
2017) tied with Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Putin
expelled 755 diplomats in response to U.S.
sanctions. Hurricane Irma harmed the Caribbean
and America killed 146 people plus causing $64.2
billion in damage. On September 13, 2017, the
International Olympic Committee awarded Paris
and Los Angeles to host the 2024 and 2028
Summer Olympics respectively. On October 1,
2017, 58 people were killed and 851 people
injured when Stephen Paddock fired his gun on a
crowd in Las Vegas. It was the deadliest mass
shooting done by one single gunman in modern
U.S. history. The Iraqis said that they are liberated
of the ISIL group on October 17, 2017. President
Xi won the election in China. Catalonia declared
independence from Spain on October 27, but
Spain doesn’t recognize it. A rental truck killed 8
people and injured 11 others in Lower
Manhattan, NYC on October 31, 2017. There is a
Sutherland Springs Baptist church shooting when
26 people died and 20 more are injured.
President Robert Mugabe was placed under
house arrest on November 15, 2017. A mosque
attack in Sinai, Egypt killed 305 worshipers.
Hundreds more were wounded. Russia is banned
from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang
by the International Olympic Committee over
doping allegations. America officially recognized
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on December 6, 2017.
The Iraqi military said that it has liberated its
lands from ISIL by December 9, 2017. Disney
acquired most of 21st century FOX. Many nations
like Guatemala moved their Israeli embassy to
Jerusalem by December 24, 2017. The end of
2017 represents the start of the end of the 2010’s
decade.
On January 13, 2018, there was
the killing of Naqeebullah
Mehsud in an encounter staged
by the police officer Rao Anwar
in Karachi, Pakistan. This
sparked nationwide protests
against extrajudicial
killings. The Pashtun Tahafuz
Movement (or the Pashtun
Protection Movement), led by
Manzoor Pashteen, launched a
campaign to seek justice for
Mehsud. On January 20, 2018,
Turkey President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan announced the start of
a military offensive to capture a
portion of northern Syria from
Kurdish forces. This continued
the Kurdish and Turkish conflict.
From January 20-22, 2018,
there is a federal government
shutdown over a dispute over
the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (in dealing
with immigration). Scientists in
China by January 24, as
reported in the journal Cell,
created the first monkey clones
using somatic cell nuclear
transfer. These scientists are
Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua. On
January 31, a total lunar eclipse
takes place. The Moon appears
as super moon, with perigee
being on January 30. It is also
the first blue moon eclipse since
1983. It was also referred to as
the super blue blood moon.
Space X conducted its maiden
flight of its most powerful
rocket to date. It was the Falcon
Heavy from LC39A at John F.
Kennedy Space Center in Florida
on February 6. The Winter
Olympics took place in
Pyeongchang, South Korea on
February 9-25, 2018. On
February 10, Kay Goldsworthy
becomes the first woman
archbishop in the Anglican
Communion on her installation
in the Anglican Diocese of Perth,
Western Australia. Jacob Zuma
resigned as President of South
Africa after 9 years in power on
February 14. On that day, a
school shooting occurred at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, Florida,
United States, killing 17 people
and injuring 17 others. This
caused a regrowth of the gun
control movement nationwide
in the United States of America.
Protests and walk outs occur in
schools nationwide. Even some
gun control legislation was
passed in various states. Former
Russian double agent Sergei
Skripal and his daughter, Yulia,
are poisoned by the Novichok
nerve agent in Salisbury,
England. UK counter-terrorism
police investigate amid
speculation the Kremlin was
behind the incident. It
happened on March 4. The
2018 Winter Paralympics are
held in Pyeongchang, South
Korea from March 9 to March
18, 2018. On March 9, President
Donald Trump accepted an
invitation from the North
Korean leader Jim Jong-un for a
meeting in May to discuss the
denuclearization of North
Korea. Putin is reelected. On
March 24, over 900 cities have
the March for Our Lives in
protests against gun violence
and mass shootings. More than
100 Russian diplomats are
expelled by more than 20
countries in the wake of the
poisoning of Sergei and Yulia
Skripal by March 26. North
Korean supreme leader Kim
Jong-un meets Chinese
paramount leader Xi Jinping,
leaving the country for the first
time since assuming office in
2011 (on March 28). The 2018
Commonwealth Games were
held in Gold Coast, Queensland,
Australia (from April 4-15).
On April 5, 2018, Former
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva was given an arrest
warrant after a vote by the
Supreme Court voted 6–5 in
favor of denying his habeas
corpus, due to corruption and
other scandals. Lula da Silva is a
progressive person, and the far
right wanted Lula to be gone
unjustly in order to prop up a
right wing Brazilian
government. The sarin chemical
attack happened in Douma,
Syria killed at least 70 people.
Cinemas open in Saudi Arabia
for the first time to show the
film Black Panther. Miguel Diaz
Cnael was President of Cuba in
April 19. Kim Jong-un crossed
into South Korea to meet with
President Moon Jae-in,
becoming the first North Korean
leader to cross the Demilitarized
Zone since its creation in 1953
(on April 27). Trump ended the
Iranian nuclear agreement in
May 8. On May 19, 2018, there
was the wedding of Prince Harry
and Meghan Markle is held at St
George's Chapel, England, with
an estimated global audience of
1.9 billion. Many of the people
there were black people and
other people of color. Merkel is
a biracial woman of color
herself. The 2018 Venezuelan
presidential election was held
with incumbent President
Nicolás Maduro reelected with
67.8% of the vote and the
lowest turnout in Venezuela's
modern democratic history
since the 1958 coup d'état. This
was on May 20. America and
the European Union plus others
want Venezuela to be a pro-
Western puppet state. On May
31, 2018, the U.S. announced
that it will extend its tariffs on
imported steel (25%) and
aluminum (10%) to include the
EU, Mexico and Canada, starting
at midnight. The G7 meeting
happened in Canada. Eritrea
and Ethiopia end their conflict
in July 9, 2018. Apple Inc.
becomes the world's first public
company to achieve a market
capitalization of $1 trillion on
August 2, 2018. On October 2,
2018, the Washington Post
journalist Jamal Khashoggi was
murdered inside the Saudi
consulate in Istanbul, Turkey,
triggering a diplomatic crisis for
Saudi Arabia.
The United States Senate
confirmed Brett Kavanaugh's
nomination to the United States
Supreme Court by a margin of
50-48, making it the closest
successful confirmation vote of
a Supreme Court nominee since
1881 (on October 6, 2018). The
IPCC releases its Special Report
on Global Warming (on October
8, 2019) of 1.5ºC, warning that
"rapid, far-reaching and
unprecedented changes in all
aspects of society" are needed
to ensure that global warming is
kept below 1.5 °C. The far-right
Jair Bolsonaro is elected as the
next President of Brazil, with
55% of the vote on October 28.
Bolsonaro is the same person
who hates progressives, didn’t
do enough to stop the Brazilian
wildfires, and allies with Trump.
The Camp Fire ignites in Butte
County, California. It became
California's deadliest and most
destructive wildfire, with 88
deaths and 18,804 buildings
destroyed (on November 8,
2018). November 11, 2018 was
when many nations
commemorated the end of
World War I in a centenary.
These are Afro-Brazilians fighting for justice and black liberation.
2019 is the last year of the 2010
decade. Jair Bolsonaro or the
right wing extremist started his
four year term as President of
Brazil. The unmanned space
probe called New Horizon went
to the Kulper belt. Qatar leaves
OPEC, and Austria legalized
same sex marriage on January
1, 2019. China landed the probe
of Chang’e 4 to land on the far
There was Armistice Day,
Veterans Day, and
Remembrance Day ceremonies
in Europe plus in America via
speeches, parades, and
memorials. NASA’s Insight
probe landed on the surface of
Mars on November 26. Chinese
scientist He Jiankui, at a public
conference in Hong Kong,
announced that he has altered
the DNA of twin human girls
born earlier in the month to try
to make them resistant to
infection with the HIV virus; he
side of the Moon. A faction of
the Armed Forces of Gabon
announces a coup d'état.
Gabon's government later
declared that it has reasserted
control. On January 10, 2019,
Venezuela entered a Department charges Chinese
constitutional crisis as Juan
Guaidó and the National
Assembly declare incumbent
President Nicolás Maduro
also reveals the possible second
pregnancy of another gene-
modified baby in November 28.
By December 1-8, the yellow
vest movement existed in
France. The United States
government entered a second
government shutdown (starting
on December 22, 2018), arising
over a dispute over funding for
the U.S.–Mexico border wall.
The shutdown, which lasted
until January 25, 2019, is the
longest government shutdown
in U.S. history.
"illegitimate" and start the
process of attempting to
remove him. A suicide bombing
happened in Bogota, Colombia
killing 22 people and injuring 68
others. The U.S. Justice
tech firm Huawei with multiple
counts of fraud, raising U.S.–
China tensions (on January 28,
2019). On February 7, 2019,
many anti-government protests
happen in Haiti. They want
Haitian President Jovenel Moise
to resign. India and Pakistan had
a standoff over lands. The
February 27-28, 2019 North
Korea–United States summit is
held in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the
second summit between United
States President Donald Trump
and the North Korean Chairman
Kim Jong-un. There is the March
blizzard in Colorado and other
places of America. On March 15,
2019, 51 people are killed and
50 others injured in terrorist
attacks on two mosques in
Christchurch, New Zealand: Al
Noor Mosque and Linwood
Islamic Centre, both of which
were the target of shootings by
Australia-born Brenton Harrison
Tarrant. It is the deadliest mass
shooting and terrorist attack in
New Zealand's history and
described by Prime Minister
Jacinda Ardern as "one of New
Zealand's darkest days.”
Subsequently, Facebook
announced they had disabled
1.5 million videos of the
gunman's rampage. In March
2019, the final area of the ISIL is
liberated. April 11, 2019 was
when Wikileaks co-founder
Julian Assange was forcibly
arrested after 7 years in
Ecuador’s embassy in London.
Questions about due process
relate to Assange. Sudan is
deposed of Omar al-Bashir. The
Notre Dame cathedral almost
burns up on April 15, 2019. The
Mueller report is released to
the public on April 18, 2019 that
exposes the Russian
interference in the 2016 United
States Presidential Election. It
proves that Trump did morally
inappropriate actions.
Avengers: Endgame is released
in theaters, breaking many box-
office records, including
becoming the highest grossing
movie of all time by April. On
May 3-6, 2019, the Gaza–Israel
conflict escalates after the
Israeli military launched
airstrikes into Gaza killing more
than 20 Palestinians including a
pregnant woman and a toddler
following the injury of two
soldiers from Gazan sniper fire.
In its first report (on May 6)
since 2005, the
Intergovernmental Science-
Policy Platform on Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
warned that biodiversity loss is
"accelerating", with over a
million species now threatened
with extinction; the decline of
the natural living world is
"unprecedented" and largely a
result of human actions,
according to the report. June 3,
2019 was the Khartoum
massacre. It was when more
than 100 people are killed when
Sudanese troops and Janjaweed
militiamen storm and opened
fire on a protest camp outside
of a military headquarters in
Khartoum, Sudan. The African
Union suspends Sudan's
membership "with immediate
effect" after the Khartoum
massacre. The 2019 FIFA
Women's World Cup is held in
France and is won by the United
States by July 7. The July
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) reported on August 15,
that July 2019 was the hottest
month on record globally, at
0.95 °C (1.71 °F) above the 20th-
century average. On July 17,
2019, Joaquín "El Chapo"
Guzmán, former head of the
Sinaloa Cartel, which became
the biggest supplier of drugs to
the U.S., is sentenced to life in
prison plus 30 years. July 21 was
when a mob of over 100
suspected triad members
dressed in white and armed
with batons attack commuters
indiscriminately at MTR Yuen
Long station in Hong Kong,
injuring 45, including a pro-
democracy legislator and a
pregnant woman. Hong Kong
police have been accused of
allowing the violence to happen
due to their delayed response
and decision to limit emergency
services in the area. In August of
2019, there were mass
shootings in a Walmart store in
El Paso, Texas and at Dayton,
Ohio.
 SOME OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSICAL ALBUMS OF THE 2010’S

Beyonce’s Lemonade (2016) Kendrick Lamar’s To Solange’s A Seat at the A Tribe Called Quest’s
Pimp a Butterfly (2015) Table (2016) We Got it From
Here…Thank You 4
Your Service (2016)

Solange’s When I Go Home Rhapsody’s Eve (2019) SZA’s Ctrl (2017) Adele’s 21 (2011)
(2019)

Leona Lewis’ Glassheart Leona Lewis’ I Am Toni Braxton and SWV’s I Missed Us
(2012) (2015) Babyface’s Love, (2012)
Marriage, and Divorce
(2014)

Little Simz’s Grey Area (2019) David Bowie’s Blackstar CeCe Winans’ Let Them Toni Braxton’s Pulse
(2016) Fall in Love (2017) (2010)
Hurricane Dorian damaged the
Bahamas on September 1 with
winds of 185 mph. 43 deaths
are reported. September saw
Hong Kong anti-extradition bill
protests. Hong Kong Chief
Executive Carrie Lam
announced the official
withdrawal of the controversial
Fugitive Offenders and Mutual
Legal Assistance in Criminal
Matters Legislation
(Amendment) Bill 2019, and
setting up of an independent
study to probe social and
economic inequality within the
territory. Chandrayaan-2, India's
second lunar probe, was
successful to put the orbit in
lunar orbit, but the lander
Vikram crashed into the surface
of the moon. On September 27,
2019, 500,000 people march in
a climate change protest led by
activist Greta Thunberg and
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in
Montreal, Canada. 70 years
after the Chinese Revolution,
Hong Kong protests continue.
On October 27, U.S. President
Donald Trump announces that
the leader of the Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant, Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi, was killed in a U.S.
Special Forces operation. It was
reported that al-Baghdadi
detonated a suicide vest after
being chased into a tunnel.
Twitter bans all political
advertising worldwide.
November 13 was when public
impeachment hearings against
Donald Trump started in the
House of Representatives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu was indicted on
charges of bribery, fraud and
breach of trust on November
21. December 5 was when
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
asks the House Judiciary
Committee to begin drafting
articles of impeachment against
U.S. President Donald Trump.
The 45th President of the United
States of America Donald Trump
was officially impeached on the
date of December 18, 2019
when the House of
Representatives approved the
articles of impeachment on
charges of abuse of power and
obstruction of Congress (even
Mitt Romney voted to impeach
and get rid of Trump from the
office. Trump survived the
Senate vote). The World Anti-
Doping Agency (on December 5,
2019) votes unanimously to ban
Russia from international sport
for four years for doping
offences, meaning it will be
excluded from the 2020
Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the
2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
and the 2022 World Cup in
Qatar. December 20 was when
the House announced charges
of impeachment against Trump.
Donald Trump is the forth U.S.
President to face impeachment.
*By the 2010's, music changed.
The melismatic vocals were
replaced with other artists in
the 2010s like Beyonce, Katy
Perry, Taylor Swift Lady Gaga,
and Rihanna. By the mid 2010's
indie pop artists grew like
Selena Gomez, Lana Del Rey,
Lorde, and Birdy. Many
traditional instruments were
expressed like the ukulele,
bongos, banjos, and the
accordion. During the 2010's,
hip hop music grew as a genre
 too. By 2017, with the increase
in streaming services over the
Billboard 100, hip hop music
became the most popular genre
in the U.S. in its 4th decade of
growth. This decade saw
movements like trap music,
cloud rap, drill music, and emo
hip hop being mainstream.
Many famous hip hop artists of
the 2010's include Kendrick
The second inauguration of
President Barack Obama took
place on January 20, 2013. On
the next day, it was shown in
public at the West Front of the
U.S. Capitol at Washington,
D.C. It came near the 150th
anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln’s Emancipation
Proclamation and the
completion of the Capitol
dome in 1863.
Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Nicki Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Kesha.
Minaj, Travis Scott, Young Thug, Flo Rida, Pitbull, and the Black
21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert, Big Sean, Eyed Pes have mixed genres in
ASAP Rocky, etc. Experimental their expression. Teen pop, K-
rock, gospel, EDM, and other pop, J-pop, et. including C-pop
forms of Eurodance were grown. UK artists like Emeli
popular in the decade of the Sande, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Sam
2010's. David Guetta and Calvin Smith, Elel Goulding, Jessie J,
Harris expressed influences of and others increased their
europop and electronica. This is popularity during the 2010's.
shown in the songs shown by
On 2016, the The film of Black Panther was released in
Cleveland Cavaliers 2018. It changed climatic history as
led by Lebron James showing heading black characters involving
won their NBA first a science fiction themed movie. It broke
championship in records, inspired black people worldwide,
franchise history. and dealt with complex issues at the same
Celebrations occurred time (from the land of Wakanda to the
all over the city of shores of California). Ryan Coogler was the
Cleveland. Now, director of the film. Black Panther outlined
Lebron James is the the artistry and creative power of the 21st
greatest basketball century movie atmosphere. Actresses and
player of this actors worked together as a team to make
generation who won the film a cultural phenomenon like
his 4th NBA title in Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai
2020 for the Los Gurira, Leitita Wright, Angela Bassett,
Angeles Lakers. Daniel Kaluuya, Michael B. Jordan, Forest
Whitaker, and other people.
Many of the Greatest Athletes of the 2010's

Serena Williams Lebron James Simone Biles Usain Bolt

Allyson Felix Carmelita Jeter Tom Brady Liontel Messi

Michael Phelps Novak Djokovic Kevin Durant Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Katie Ledecky Rafael Nadal Aaron Rodgers Maya Moore

Roger Federer Tiger Woods Diana Taurasi Shelly-Ann Fraser-

Pryce
2020 is here. I certainly blessed enough to
witness almost a quarter of the 21st century
being completed. This is a new decade too
which has been characterized by a rapid
advance of technology (from Oculus to 5G cell
phone devices), innovative shows, new social
movements, and the same dedication to justice
which is embraced by people from across
generations. 2020 began on Wednesday, and
the start of this new decade of the 2020s is
undoubtedly filled with excitement. Also,
problems from the previous decade continue in
this new decade. For example, the U.S. is
sending more troops to the Middle East after
tensions arising at the U.S. embassy compound
in Baghdad. Iraqi nationalists and pro-Iranian
protesters have existed. Iranian and American
relations are bad at this moment. This year saw
the proceeding of the impeachment trial of the
Senate. Trump is now an impeached President
in 2020. This year will witness historic
anniversaries as well. This year of 2020 is the
75th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Many of our grandparents and great-
grandparents were veterans of World War II.
The Allied Powers did the right thing to stop
the genocide of Jewish people plus others (who
were victims of the Shoah) and to liberate
millions of people in multiple continents from
Axis tyranny. This year will be the 25th year
anniversary of the creation of the controversial
World Trade Organization (WTO). This year
will be the 10th year anniversary of the tragic
Haiti Earthquake.

This year will be the 250th year anniversary of
the Boston Massacre that took place on March
5, 1770. This was when many colonists opposed
the British Parliament imposing taxes on them
to pay for the Seven Year War (1753-1763).
Many colonists refused to pay taxes, because
they said that they had no representation in the
British Parliament. Boston was one of the
earliest pro-independence locations in America
back then. Colonists and British soldiers
clashed. British soldiers shot into the crowd
causing many colonists to die. One of the
persons who died was Crispus Attucks, who
was an African American. The Attucks Theater
in Norfolk, Virginia is named after him. Many
soldiers were acquitted and some were found
guilty for reduced charges. John Adams said
that this Boston Massacre was one foundation
of the American independence movement. As
we know now, the American Revolution was
complex, and many Founders owned slaves
while hypocritically criticizing the nefarious
British Empire (which is complicit in
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imperialism, slavery, colonialism, and the theft
of resources on many continents).
This year is the 50th year anniversary of the
invasion of Cambodia by the U.S. on April 30,
1970 by Nixon. This caused protests
nationwide (because Nixon expanded the
Vietnam War and his actions in Cambodia were
overtly illegal) and resulted in the tragic killings
of students at Kent State University in Ohio
and Jackson State College in Mississippi. Also,
this year will be the 10th anniversary of the I-
Pad which was released on April 3, 2010.We still
use the I-Pad to this very day. The I-Pad is a
magnificent device. 2020 will be a year of new
developments, the postponement of Summer
Olympics in Tokyo, changes, and growth. The
pandemic is dominating this time of 2020 too.
Hopefully, by the end of the year of 2020, we
shall see a new leader elected as President. I
already voted via a mail in ballot. In the
meantime, we love democratic freedom, justice,
and pan-African unity.
 By 2019, Simone
Biles is the most
decorated American
gymnast and the
world’s third most The 2018 midterm
decorated gymnast of elections caused the
all time. She has a House of
total of 30 Olympic Representatives to be
and World mostly Republican. It
Championship proved to the world that
medals. Simone Biles Americans could vote in Russel Wilson married Ciara on
is the greatest high numbers to reject July 6, 2016 at the Peckforton
gymnast in human the Trump regime’s Castle in Cheshire, England.
history. agenda. They have many children
together. Both of them are
talented at what they do. They
are both devout Christians, and
their relationship has made a
positive influence on human
relations in general.

This is America. These human beings are part of us as

diversity is part of our strength.
The Struggle Continues, but we
will be Victorious in the End.