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Taking Down the Confederate Flag
Washington Post Fox News (Online News) CNN (Online News)Mar 18 2024
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New Black museums aim to tell the history of African Americans despite push to limit it
MONTGOMERY, Alabama ‒ From a wooden bench at the edge of the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, visitors can see the Alabama River where enslaved Africans were transported and sold into a life of forced labor. From the wide windows on the second floor of the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., visitors can look across the Cooper River towards Africa, where people from the
"USA Today" ContributorMar 19 2024
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Mexican president praises Pancho Villa for his 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico that killed 18
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president on Tuesday praised Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa for his 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico, a raid that killed 18 Americans, mostly civilians. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the attack “daring” and said “we should thank” Villa for it. “We should thank Villa for, among other things, the daring feat of having attacked Columbus,
Washington PostMar 13 2024
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New anti-Trump billboard making a return to Phoenix's Grand Avenue
The billboard owner and artist are making no apologies for what are bound to be controversial images. In 2017, the artist's 'Trumpocalypse' billboard went viral. Example video title will go here for this video Next up in 5 Example video title will go here for this video Next up in 5 A new billboard, scheduled to go up Friday, shows Trump in diapers, sitting next to a bucket of "Hitler Fried
12NewsMar 13 2024
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Oregon requests major disaster declaration after ice storm
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – After January’s deadly winter storm blanketed the region in snow and ice, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has requested a federal major disaster declaration to help with the damage, the governor’s office announced Tuesday. In a letter to President Joe Biden, Gov. Kotek requested the declaration on behalf of the State of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.
KOIN 6Mar 17 2024
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An Alabama sculpture park evokes the painful history of slavery
In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed. It's now home to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the vision of lawyer and social activist Bryan Stevenson. The 17-acre park, set to open this month, is filled with nearly 50 sculptures by world-famous artists like Kehinde Wiley, Simone Leigh. and Kwame Akoto-
CBS News (Online)Mar 18 2024
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New Mexico Governor signs nearly $1 billion college trust fund into law
(The Center Square) – New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Senate Bill 159 this week, establishing a nearly $1 billion taxpayer-funded trust and a scholarship program fund to fund tuition-free college in New Mexico. “By creating this fund, New Mexico is keeping our original promise of tuition-free college for residents and cementing our status as the nation’s leader for college
Washington ExaminerMar 16 2024
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'The atmosphere was phenomenal': Spokane Velocity start party early during 2-1 home-opening win over Richmond
Spokane Velocity celebrate a goal against the Richmond Kickers during a USL soccer match at ONE Spokane stadium on Sat. Mar. 16, 2024 in Spokane WA. (James Snook/For The Spokesman-Review) It was the perfect storybook script for Spokane Velocity FC on Saturday at ONE Spokane Stadium, as many firsts were written in their short history book. There was the first goal from open play, the first
Spokesman ReviewMar 16 2024
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The Nathan Hale Schoolhouse: a travelogue
The Nathan Hale Schoolhouse arrives near its fifth location, the middle of Union Street, on April 7, 1975. It had just been towed from the Old Town Mill, where it had been since 1966. (Day file photo) The schoolhouse was a residence on Union Street from the early 1830s until soon after this photo was taken around 1901. The porch, balcony and rear addition were stripped off before the building
The DayMar 15 2024
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Bystander, firefighters extinguish cherry tree fire at Tidal Basin
The day the cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin reached the stage known as “puffy white,” one of the trees nearly went up in smoke. D.C. firefighters at Engine Co. 23 in Foggy Bottom got the call for “tree on fire” at 12:16 p.m. on Friday and raced to the east side of the Tidal Basin where the pedal boats are docked, skirting the Washington Monument. By the time firefighters arrived minutes
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