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Golden Gate Fields comes to a close as California racing struggles to exist
LA Times via AOL· 5 days agoAfter 83 years, Sunday is the last day of racing at Golden Gate Fields. The track will be missed for...
How the recycling symbol lost its meaning
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoThis story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s...
US market expert warns of 'a bigger crash' than 2008 — says there's 'nowhere to hide' except in this...
Moneywise via Yahoo Finance· 1 day agoDepression, or the long depression of 1873 to ’96 — those followed major bubbles. And the other ...
Byron Donalds implied Black people were better off under Jim Crow. So we checked.
theGrio via AOL· 7 days agoOPINION: We fact-checked Republican Byron Donalds' claims about Black families, conservative values ...
A powerful heat dome is just one of the extreme weather hazards coming next week
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoOcean when other necessary factors – including favorable upper-level winds and warm ocean water –...
Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life
WUSF 89.7· 5 days agoMost plastic is dumped in landfills or becomes pollution in places like rivers and oceans, according...
IT'S A 'NATURAL': THE 25TH STATE
Arizona Daily Sun· 20 hours agoOn June 15, 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state. The United States acquired the land from France ...
Does mental illness beget great poetry? These 4 poets exposed the sickness of a society that sought...
The Conversation· 3 days agoThe publication last year of Steven M. Weine’s Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness has reinvigorated enduring questions about the ...
SHARPSVILLE at 150: Sharpsville makes a monumental show of thanks to its veterans
The Herald, Sharon, Pa. via Yahoo News· 21 minutes agoJun. 14—SHARPSVILLE — Faith can move mountains. In Sharpsville, so can gratitude. That's how a 26-ton boulder made its way nine decades years ago to what is now Mahaney Park ...
A Sweeping History of the Black Working Class
The Nation· 2 days agoThe famous “I Have a Dream” speech, arguably the best-known public statement by Martin Luther King Jr., was given at the 1963 March on ...