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“Let us breathe and grow”: 41st African American History celebrations
February 18, 2015The 41st Annual People's World African American History Month Celebrations will take place in Hartford and New Haven, Conn.
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A lynching in New Orleans
February 18, 2015How recent these events! How deeply seared in living human memory!
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Hell on rails: West Virginia burning after crude oil train derailment
February 18, 2015The fires from the derailment in Fayette County continued to burn Tuesday morning, and emergency shelters for hundreds of people who had to evacuate after the derailment remain open.
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Even amidst climate change, geoengineering is not the answer
February 17, 2015Geoengineering was once considered a fringe idea, but in these climatically desperate times some are arguing for desperate measures.
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Today in African-American history: Honoring Robert Robinson Taylor
February 17, 2015Taylor was the first academically trained black architect in the U.S. and the first black graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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