“Everything is connected”: Simone Weil and Pope Francis on the human need for roots
The French philosopher and the Argentinian pontiff understood the dangers of being uprooteded from culture and collectivities ...
How Black paratroopers saved the US from Japan’s WWII firebombs
Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was ...
Meet Julian Abele, the Black Architect Who Was a Cornerstone of America’s Gilded Age
This trailblazer was responsible for some of the country’s most striking civic and university campus structures ...
How a Black Progressive Transformed Into a Conservative Star
Xaviaer DuRousseau once marched in Black Lives Matter protests. Then he started watching PragerU videos — and they resonated ...
The Man Behind the Man Who Broke MLB's Color Barrier: Branch Rickey
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives," Jackie Robinson said not long before he died in 1972.
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‘Important part of American history’: Black women’s WWII battalion celebrated
The work of the 6888th Central Directory Postal Battalion in Europe during World War II, Col. Eries Mentzer says, help pave ...
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The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades
After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...
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Ward Cunningham, inventor of the first 'wiki': "The growth of technology is destroying the Earth and worsening the lives of many people"
On the 30th anniversary of the first 'wiki', we spoke with its creator about the invention that so irritates technopopulists.
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Thaddeus Stevens tried to reunite a kidnapped Black family [The Scribbler]
The Thaddeus Stevens Museum’s expansion on Chambersburg Street next month will include an exhibit about the kidnapping of ...
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The MIT Scientist Behind the ‘Torpedo Bats’ That Are Blowing Up Baseball
he was part of a research team that cooled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded in human history. What his colleagues didn’t realize was that in the rare moments when Leanhardt ...
Our emails, ourselves: What the history of email reveals about us
Spokeo explored news coverage and cultural milestones to chart the evolution of email addresses and how they both shape and ...