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How the Black aristocracy of the Gilded Age ushered in a new era of education and freedom
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 7 months agoW. E. B. Du Bois with the Fisk University class of 1888.Digital Collections, The New York Public...
Tramel's ScissorTales: Why OU-Texas is a bigger get for SEC than USC-UCLA for the Big Ten
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSoutheastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey made an off-hand, but on-point, comment the other...
A $7.5-million find: Overlooked Getty estate sale map turns out to be 14th century treasure
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoLa Jolla map dealer Alex Clausen knew there was something unusual about the nautical chart he...
Alley Theatre in Texas puts on Thornton Wilder's last, unfinished play, 'The Emporium'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFor Kirk Lynn, it was like a scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” He was in a library at Yale,...
A CT city could have had the first Black college in America. But the opposition was too strong, as...
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe year 1831 seemed the perfect time to start a new venture in New Haven, one that would bring education and prosperity to the Black community in the city and beyond. It would be the first ...
L.A. author Kathryn Scanlan wins $175,000 literary prize: 'Baffling and wonderful'
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months ago'Kick the Latch' author Kathryn Scanlan joins a congregation of literary stars linked by the Windham-Campbell Prize, for which she was anonymously nominated.