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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin to return to Springfield this summer
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 7 days agoGoodwin was a speechwriter and adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, as well...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
Doris Kearns Goodwin and husband Dick Goodwin lived, observed, created and chronicled the 1960s
Los Angeles Times· 5 days ago“An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” isn’t precisely the book that ...
Dan Rather, at 92, on a life in news
CBS News· 18 hours agoIt's been almost 20 years since Dan Rather signed off from the anchor desk here at CBS News. In his 44 years with CBS, Rather held every post a network...
Opinion | The Ghost of the 1968 Antiwar Movement Has Returned
New York Times· 4 days agoAt the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-Vietnam War protesters clashed with...
Environmental stalwart Stewart Udall celebrated in new documentary
Crosscut· 5 days agoThe former Secretary of the Interior helped establish the Pacific Crest Trail, four national parks –...
Chicago’s response to migrant influx stirs longstanding frustrations among Black residents
WKBT La Crosse· 7 days agoThe closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black...
The history of student protests at Atlanta’s HBCUs
Atlanta Journal-Constitution· 4 days agoWhat’s clear is Morehouse and Atlanta’s other historically Black colleges and universities have a long tradition of participating in social justice ...
Earth Day
Cumberland Times-News· 7 days agoThe Earth is 4.5 billion-plus years old, but we Earthlings have been celebrating Earth Day for only the past 50 years. Each April 22 is Earth Day, and while some people exploit our planet, others ...
