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Year: 2021
Man charged with wife’s murder illegally cast her ballot for Trump, officials say: ‘I just thought, give him another vote’
By Hannah Knowles and Paulina Villegas May 15, 2021 at 9:38 p.m. EDT The county clerk immediately knew something strange was going on last fall. A mail ballot had arrived from Suzanne Morphew â
How New Efforts Are Recovering the Stories of People Who Were Deleted From History
BY RACHEL LANCE UPDATED: APRIL 7, 2020 3:42 PM EDT | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: APRIL 7, 2020 12:30 PM EDT Recently, a doctoral student at Duke University discovered that the oldest
Traitors Celebrated?
My question is why can southern states, who lost the Civil War, get away with having holidays and memorials to those who rebelled against the USA? Clint Smith, writing for The Atlantic, s
What This Cruel War Was Over
TA-NEHISI COATES JUNE 22, 2015 The Confederate flag is directly tied to the Confederate cause, and the Confederate cause was white supremacy. This claim is not the result of revisionism. It do
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May marks the start of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month – during a time when anti-Asian hate crimes continue to rise across the country. Our guide breaks down the long history
‘Two justice systems’: Anger as white Trump supporter who used dead mother’s vote walks free while Black woman faces jail for voting error
Graig Graziosi 5/4/21 A white man who pretended to be his dead mother in order to cast an extra vote for Donald Trump was sentenced to five years of probation after being found guilty. A Black
How the Myth of a Liberal North Erases a Long History of White Violence
By Christy Clark-Pujara and Anna-Lisa Cox SMITHSONIANMAG.COM AUGUST 27, 2020 In 1834 there were even more riots against African Americans, most notably in New Haven, Connecticut, Philadelphia, and
The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward
Analysis by Ronald Brownstein Updated 1:16 AM ET, Fri April 23, 2021 Far right White supremacist groups, conservative media personalities and now Republicans in Congress are try
South Carolina may bring back electric chair, once used to execute a 14-year-old boy later exonerated
By Lindsey Bever and Gillian Brockell May 8, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EDT Barely 5 feet tall and not yet 100 pounds, George Stinney Jr. sat so small in the electric chair that the stra
How to Wash Your Gym Clothes
My son has the sweatiest gym clothes. I mean, really, I’ve never smelled anything like them. And – if he forgets to wash them right away – well, we can’t be in the same room, maybe even in
Pet Proof Your House
Have you ever had a dog that would chew anything? A puppy who had difficulty learning boundaries? I have had both of those kinds of dogs, and don’t have a crate because there is
How to Cope When Mother’s Day Is Hard
By Angela Kwan Updated May 02, 2019 As social media has evolved, so has the way we celebrate Mother’s Day: it’s transformed from a private day into a far more public display. But
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Just who is Tucker Carlson?
Agnes Erickson writes, “Tucker McNear Swanson Carlson was born in San Francisco in 1969, the oldest of two boys. The media may have been a popular dinner table topic for him growing up as his fat