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Here Are the 12 New Books You Should Read in April
Time via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFrom Salman Rushdie's memoir to Amor Towles' first collection of short stories, here are the must-read new books coming in April. Credit - The best books...
Sojourner Truth won court fight to free her son 200 years ago; how to see uncovered documents
Poughkeepsie Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 1828, years before she took the name Sojourner Truth, a Black woman who had escaped slavery with...
Let’s talk about the time a white woman remixed Sojourner Truth’s famous speech
theGrio via AOL· 2 months agoOPINION: We can’t even call Sojourner Truth’s speech ‘Ain’t I a woman?’ because apparently she never...
Clarence Page: A college-level challenge: When free speech sounds like cyberbullying
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA University of Chicago student who happens to be white objected to an undergraduate anthropology...
North Country residents remember Russell Banks
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 10—KEENE — Russell Banks, a summer resident of Keene, died from cancer this past Saturday at his home in Saratoga Springs. He was 82. The award-winning author and twice Pulitzer Prize nominee ...
The Nazis studied US eugenics and Jim Crow laws as a model for their policies. When they were...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTop: A segregated store for migrant workers in Belle Glade, Florida, in 1941. Bottom: The Warsaw...
Mansions, parties, and fine dining: Vintage photos show how America's wealthiest business tycoons...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMembers of New York high society John S. Milburn, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Stuyvesant Fish,...
Why Is TNR Hosting a Stop Trump Summit? It Should Be Pretty Obvious.
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 8 months agoI was on Morning Joe Thursday morning as part of a lively panel about Donald Trump’s latest...
Celebrating Russell Banks on John Brown Day 2023
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 19—LAKE PLACID — John Brown Day 2023 was an echo of John Brown Day 1999. This year's celebration was dedicated to the late Russell Banks, an award-winning author and doer of good works whose ...