January 6, 2021

The Daily Skimm, December 31, 2020 Oh, 2020. Not all years are good but you were especially crappy. Our Google searches went from ‘best places to travel on a budget’ to ‘how many plants is too many plants?’ We all baked bread. Everything was cake. We made margs with Martha Stewart, cosmos with Ina Garten, and negronis with Stanley Tucci. No one remembers jeans.…

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By Michael Cavna Dec. 31, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST “A new year…a fresh, clean start!” a joyous boy in red mittens said a quarter-century ago this week, shortly before soaring forth on the most famous sled in American arts this side of “Citizen Kane.” And just like that, the high-spirited 6-year-old and his best buddy were…

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Here is another reason to look forward to 2021 — new people’s history books. We highlight below a few upcoming 2021 titles and invite you to events we are hosting for The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Young Readers Edition (January 11) and How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America(May 10). The…

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Amazing! Read more HERE! According to The Editorial Board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “White supremacists now account for the largest share of U.S. domestic terrorism. This is a sobering fact. In September, FBI Director Christopher Wray noted in a House Homeland Security committee meeting that there were more domestic terrorism investigations this year than previous years’…

Read More New terrorism 2020 guide shows FBI still classifying Black ‘extremists’ as domestic terrorism threat

By Christopher Ingraham Jan. 1, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EST The pandemic has forced untold hardships onto many Americans, with tens of millions of families now reporting that they don’t have enough to eat and millions more out of work on account of layoffs and lockdowns. America’s wealthiest, on the other hand, had a very different kind…

Read More World’s richest men added billions to their fortunes last year as others struggled