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As the DNC looks for thousands of volunteers, past helpers share stories of the convention’s...
Chicago Sun-Times· 5 days agoThe nation was still reeling from the assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as...
Who is Larry O'Brien and why did the NBA name a trophy after him?
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth· 7 days agoOutside of basketball, he was a key player in the politics of the 1960s, including the election of...
Meet Mark Gorton, the anti-vax millionaire donor behind congestion pricing and RFK Jr.
NY Post metro via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWealthy hedge-funder Mark Gorton, 57, of Manhattan recently told The Post that he is probably the...
‘The most loathsome human beings’: St Elmo’s Fire and the birth of the Brat Pack
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoSo reflected the actor Judd Nelson, looking back at a brief, golden period in the mid-Eighties in...
SHRIBMAN: Our country is in need of true heroes
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung· 19 hours agoIs America losing its heroes? One of them, Robert Persichitti, 102, died en route to the commemoration. Then, just a few days ago, William Anders, the...
The Paranoid Movies That Captured Post-Watergate America
Foreign Policy Magazine· 3 days agoAirplane records and pot-grinding, spread not through vloggers but through Hollywood movies....
1964 Civil Rights Act Fast Facts
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara· 5 days agoLimited Civil Rights Acts were passed in in 1957 and 1960. As a result of the 1957 Act, the United States Commission on Civil Rights was created. The act...
Brat Pack Stars: Where Are They Now? | Photos
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAndrew McCarthy reunites with Ally Sheedy and Demi Moore in his doc "Brats," but where's the rest of the '80s crew? The post Brat Pack Stars: Where Are...
No, There Isn’t a Ukraine ‘Enemies List’
The Bulwark· 6 days agoTHE LATEST OUTRAGE CYCLE ON THE RIGHT is over a so-called “enemies list” of anti-Ukraine Americans that has come to light in the last few days. David Sacks, the tech entrepreneur ...
Juneteenth a reminder of ongoing struggles for freedom
The Hill· 1 day agoAlthough Juneteenth represents a day of freedom for Black Americans, many still struggle to realize...
