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U.S. to establish national monument to Emmett Till
July 24, 2023Emmett Till was 14 when racists abducted, tortured, and killed him in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.
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Guatemalans remember 1954 U.S.-backed coup as they battle today’s right-wing election theft
July 21, 2023The right-wing ruling class was shocked when Bernardo Arévalo and the center-left Semilla party surged into the presidential run-off.
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‘Oppenheimer’ review: Masterful exploration of history, anti-communism, and the Atomic Age’s legacy
July 19, 2023A look at the life of the father of the atom bomb and the moral dilemma he faced in creating world-ending weapons.
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A century ago, Zitkála-Šá exposed an orgy of atrocities against Native Americans
July 17, 2023In 1923, a Dakota-born writer-activist traveled through Oklahoma to investigate abuses against the Choctaw, Creek, and other tribes. What she found was appalling.
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‘Queen Margaret’s Version of Shakespeare’s War of the Roses’: A theater review
July 14, 2023A perfectly captured damaged spirit of a character whom the world made suffer because of his physical differences, and is therefore hellbent on vengeance.
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