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Fifth graders compose and perform poignant songs about math and science
November 21, 2018LOS ANGELES—Early last year a press release from the Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC) came my way about high school kids in Van Nuys writing and performing a new oratorio on the theme of the Japanese...
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The House has gone Democratic. Can its majority now go bold?
November 21, 2018Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying — without much success — to get his Jacksonville, Fla., neighbor to go with him to the mid-term election polls and vote. The young neighbor, a high-school...
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U.S. weapons in hands of Trump’s Saudi pals create humanitarian disaster
November 21, 2018Defying the world’s findings as he sits down to eat his Thanksgiving dinner, Trump defends Saudi prince who killed a Washington Post columnist and who is now starving Yemen’s children to death.
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American Grace
November 21, 2018Remember those who grew this food, Who mined and forged, Who sang and loved, Who fought and died, Who made all wealth
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Trans Day of Remembrance: Expanding focus to include the living
November 20, 2018Many trans organizers are pushing allies to take a different approach to TDOR this year, focusing instead on trans lives as opposed to just deaths.
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