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Sep 13 2023
News
Jazz Fest to add extra day in 2024
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is expanding to eight days in 2024.The festival will now begin on Thursday, April 25, creating two equal four-day weekends.The festival will be from Thursday, April 25, to Sunday, April 28, and from Thursday, May 2, to Sunday, May 5. Jazz Fest is held at Fair Grounds Race Course each year and features over 5,000 musicians across 14 stages. Festival
WDSUOct 23 2023
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Dwayne Johnson's new wax figure is 'missing melanin.' He's taking matters into his own sun-kissed hands
Dwayne Johnson said he will work with the Grévin Museum to correct his wax figure after backlash. The Rock or Mr. Clean? That’s what a newly revealed wax figure at the Grévin Museum in Paris has fans of Dwayne Johnson pondering. When the Grévin unveiled its latest wax star last week, netizens quickly began roasting the figure, which seemingly lacked Johnson’s skin tone. In the comments,
Los Angeles TimesNov 23 2023
Opinion
Counting Our Blessings
National Review’s mission of preserving the American tradition of ordered liberty bids us to participate in one of our greatest traditions, marking a day for giving thanks to God for the blessings he hath given us as individuals, families, and citizens of this great nation. Our Pilgrim forebears brought their ingenuity, their industry, and their faith to a continent rich with natural resources
National Review (Opinion)Dec 28 2023
Perspectives Blog
What Does 2024 Have in Store?
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2023 was a busy year, marked by technological advancement, global conflict, economic uncertainty, and political polarization. All this lays the groundwork for what is sure to be a hectic and challenging 2024.
As the new year approaches, voices across the spectrum are
AllSides StaffOct 27 2023
Analysis
Was there really a sudden Native American population boom?
Forget about Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon”: We’re pretty sure the most anticipated debut related to Native Americans this year is a much-delayed and much-less-snappily named release from the U.S. Census Bureau known as Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A.
The report provides the most detailed data we’ve ever had on America’s racial and ethnic origins
Washington PostOct 16 2023
News
Killing of 6-year-old Palestinian American boy shows hate can spread all too quickly
Wadea Al-Fayoume and his mother were living thousands of miles away from the latest violence raging through the Middle East, but authorities said they still paid the price because of their ethnicity and religion. It didn’t matter that Wadea was only 6. Joseph Czuba allegedly found the Palestinian American boy so threatening, he stabbed him 26 times. Wadea’s mother survived Saturday’s attack in
Chicago Sun-TimesSep 27 2023
News
More than half of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh have left
GORIS, Armenia, Sept 28 (Reuters) - More than half of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh have arrived in Armenia after Azerbaijan's lightning victory in a military operation against the breakaway region.
More than 65,036 people from Nagorno-Karabakh have crossed into Armenia, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's spokeswoman said.
ReutersSep 24 2023
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Karabakh's 120,000 Armenians will leave for Armenia, adviser to leader says
The 120,000 ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh will leave for Armenia as they do not want to live as part of Azerbaijan and fear ethnic cleansing, the leadership of the breakaway region told Reuters on Sunday.
Armenia's Prime Minister also said the Karabakh Armenians were likely to leave the region, and that Armenia was ready to take them in, following a defeat last week at the hands
ReutersOct 12 2023
News
US must stop feeding 'monster' Iran following Hamas' attack on Israel: Former Trump adviser and scholar says
A former Trump deputy national security adviser says the United States cannot keep "feeding" the "monster" Iran following . Victoria Coates, who serves as the vice president of the Heritage Foundation’s Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, says Iran serves as the "lifeline" to . "Iran's motivation is the same it's been for more than 40 years,"
Fox News (Online News)Oct 27 2023
News
Charlottesville Controversial Robert E. Lee Statue Melted Down
A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that stirred controversy and was a focal point of a deadly White Supremacist rally in 2017 has been melted down and will be used to make works of art.
The initiative, called "Swords Into Plowshares," is led by Charlottesville’s nonprofit Jefferson School African-American Heritage Center. According to the project's website, they plan on "
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