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Lauren Rowles makes history as Great Britain secure three rowing gold medals
4 months, 1 week ago

Lauren Rowles makes history as Great Britain secure three rowing gold medals

The Independent  

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Sculpture park aims to look honestly at slavery, and honor those who endured it
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Sculpture park aims to look honestly at slavery, and honor those who endured it

The Independent  

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Sculpture park aims to look honestly at slavery, honoring those who endured it
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Sculpture park aims to look honestly at slavery, honoring those who endured it

LA Times  

“Black Renaissance” by Rayvenn D’Clark is among the works on display at the new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Ala. Visitors to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park wind a serpentine path past art pieces depicting the lives of enslaved people in America and historic exhibits, including two cabins where the enslaved lived, before arriving at a towering monument. Park …

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Haney retains lightweight titles with unanimous decision over Lomachenko
1 year, 7 months ago

Haney retains lightweight titles with unanimous decision over Lomachenko

The Hindu  

Undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney retained his titles Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden, but not without a controversial decision that former three-division champion Vasiliy Lomachenko’s camp plans on appealing. put me in the history books forever.” Devin Haney punches Vasyl Lomachenko of Ukraine during their undisputed lightweight title bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Haney certainly has plenty …

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Your child's glasses may have been made with forced prison labor
2 years, 1 month ago

Your child's glasses may have been made with forced prison labor

Salon  

When Sovannarie was 3 months old, her parents noticed something unusual about their daughter: white opacities in both pupils. "If making glasses is their choice … then I feel like they are doing something worth making other people's lives happy." Few Americans know about "convict leasing" after the Civil War, "a horrific system in which black people convicted of largely …

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Today in History: October 25, Teapot Dome Scandal conviction
2 years, 2 months ago

Today in History: October 25, Teapot Dome Scandal conviction

Associated Press  

Today in history: On Oct. 25, 1929, former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for oil field leases at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and Elk Hills and Buena Vista oil fields in California; as a result of the “Teapot Dome Scandal,” Fall would become the first U.S. cabinet member to be imprisoned …

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Commentary: What the Hollywood Bowl’s complicated history reveals about Los Angeles
2 years, 7 months ago

Commentary: What the Hollywood Bowl’s complicated history reveals about Los Angeles

LA Times  

On what was likely a hot and humid summer day in Chicago, Percy Grainger hailed a taxi. Grainger prepped the crowd conducting the premiere of his “To a Nordic Princess,” a contentedly rambling, erotic “bridal song.” Composer, arranger and pianist Percy Grainger is greeted at the Los Angeles train station by Florence M. Irish as he arrives for a concert …

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A civil rights memorial in Alabama expands to document lynching victims' stories
2 years, 8 months ago

A civil rights memorial in Alabama expands to document lynching victims' stories

NPR  

A civil rights memorial in Alabama expands to document lynching victims' stories Enlarge this image toggle caption Debbie Elliott/NPR Debbie Elliott/NPR More than a million people have visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., since it opened four years ago. "We call this new section Community Reckoning," says EJI founder and Executive Director Bryan Stevenson. "It's …

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Facing History At The National Memorial For Peace And Justice : Consider This from NPR
2 years, 11 months ago

Facing History At The National Memorial For Peace And Justice : Consider This from NPR

NPR  

Facing History At The National Memorial For Peace And Justice Enlarge this image toggle caption Brynn Anderson/AP Brynn Anderson/AP There's a battle raging over the telling and teaching of Black history in the United States. School board meetings erupt into fights as critics attack the teaching of what they call critical race theory or charge that teaching about racism is …

Woman says she has DNA to show she was 7-year-old child who went missing 21 years ago
3 years, 3 months ago

Woman says she has DNA to show she was 7-year-old child who went missing 21 years ago

The Independent  

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Walking the Five Peaks of the Pentlands, Edinburgh’s best-kept secret
3 years, 10 months ago

Walking the Five Peaks of the Pentlands, Edinburgh’s best-kept secret

The Independent  

Perhaps it’s the romanticism and history of Edinburgh’s famous Old Town, from the dramatic castle rock to the ancient closes below, that mean so few visitors to the Scottish capital stray beyond the city limits and into the hills beyond them. Arthur Conan Doyle’s home in the 1880s looked out over the Pentlands, Ayr-born Rabbie Burns was known to walk …

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US lawyer depicted in ‘Just Mercy’ wins ‘alternative Nobel’
4 years, 3 months ago

US lawyer depicted in ‘Just Mercy’ wins ‘alternative Nobel’

Associated Press  

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama human rights attorney whose work fighting racial injustice was depicted in the Hollywood movie “Just Mercy” was among four activists awarded a global honor sometimes referred to as the “alternative Nobel” on Thursday. Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989 while working to free wrongly convicted people from prison and was the …

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Black At The Ballot
4 years, 10 months ago

Black At The Ballot

Huff Post  

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a majority of the Democratic presidential candidates were on the steps of the Statehouse awkwardly stumbling through the words of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the Black national anthem. “There are multiple Black needs and if you’re going to develop a strategy to appeal to people of color you have …

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Women Now Outnumber Men On U.S. Payrolls
5 years ago

Women Now Outnumber Men On U.S. Payrolls

NPR  

Women Now Outnumber Men On U.S. Payrolls Enlarge this image toggle caption John Minchillo/AP John Minchillo/AP Job growth slowed last month as U.S. employers added just 145,000 jobs. "The sectors that typically tend to employ men, like mining, manufacturing — those have all been in decline," says Megan Greene, a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Sponsor Message …

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