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James Lawson, towering Civil Rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBiden said in a statement Tuesday. Imprisoned as a conscientious objector during the Korean War in...
James Lawson, towering civil rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 4 days agoImprisoned for 13 months as a conscientious objector during the Korean War in the early 1950s,...
Amid Pride celebrations, some in Jewish LGBTQ+ community feel shunned, advocates warn
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoA hand-painted banner left outside museum director Anne Pasternak called out the museum by name and...
Today In History: June 15, More than 1,000 killed in New York steamboat disaster
San Francisco Chronicle· 43 minutes agoToday is Saturday, June 15, the 167th day of 2024. On June 15, 1904, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York’s East River. In 1215, England ...
Kentucky’s role in slaves’ emancipation: ‘Camp Nelson is our Canada’
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 2 days agoLinda Blackford: On Juneteenth, remember where Black Kentuckians issued their own Emancipation...
Minnesota man who joined Islamic State group is sentenced to 10 years in prison
Stars and Stripes· 2 days agoA Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria after becoming radicalized expressed remorse and wept in open court Thursday as he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison ...
Congo: The Exception Is The Cure
Strategy Page· 8 hours agoNovember 3, 2017: So much of central Africa has been a mess for so long (longer that written records) there are still some nations that manage to avoid the corruption, civil
Widow of IS leader reveals details of their life together
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAt that time, she says he started to wear Afghani dress, grew a beard, and carried a pistol. As the...
I use people's preferred pronouns out of respect. Not because the government said so.
Gannett via AOL· 12 hours agoA university president could require a pacifist to declare that war is just, a civil rights icon to...
'Lunacy': Dem lawmaker slams GOP's 'out of touch' crusade to weaponize Biden's family
The Raw Story· 3 days agoRep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) took his Republican colleagues to the woodshed Tuesday on MSNBC, over...