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Here Are the 12 New Books You Should Read in April
Time via Yahoo News· 3 weeks 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...
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,...
The Stop Trump Summit: The View of History
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 months agoI’ve been covering politics for a long time. I think about that long time often these days, because it really does feel like we’re at a historical moment...
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...
Clarence Page: A college-level challenge: When free speech sounds like cyberbullying
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA University of Chicago student who happens to be white objected to an undergraduate anthropology...
Why Is TNR Hosting a Stop Trump Summit? It Should Be Pretty Obvious.
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 months agoI was on Morning Joe Thursday morning as part of a lively panel about Donald Trump’s latest...
Op-Ed: Americans fueled the rise of Nazis and the Holocaust. Will we learn from that shameful...
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoToday, in America, we stand at a peculiar and frightening crossroads. We are witnessing the rising appeal of authoritarianism abroad and at home, we are bombarded by social media outlets that ...
Let’s talk about the time a white woman remixed Sojourner Truth’s famous speech
theGrio via AOL· 1 month agoOPINION: We can’t even call Sojourner Truth’s speech ‘Ain’t I a woman?’ because apparently she never...
