Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech offers hope
I dropped off my son at lacrosse practice Monday night, drove home to start dinner, threw some clothes in the ...
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Selena killed by president of singer’s fan club – Chicago Tribune
Today is Monday, March 31, the 90th day of 2025. There are 275 days left in the year.Today in history:On ...
From beats to ballots: What political rap lyrics tell us
What role has hip-hop played in activism? From the 1980s, hip-hop has essentially enabled marginalised voices to break through to ...
A Reel War: Israeli filmmaker’s search for stolen Palestinian films
An Israeli filmmaker uncovers seized PLO archives, raising questions about Palestinian heritage and identity.Was Palestinian history carefully recorded by the ...
Trump orders removal of ‘improper ideology’ from top US museums
Trump’s new executive order targets what he describes as the spread of a “divisive, race-centered ideology” at museums.United States President ...
Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at the Oscars – Chicago Tribune
Today is Thursday, March 27, the 86th day of 2025. There are 279 days left in the year.Today in history:On ...
Chicago Bulls jersey that Michael Jordan wore as a rookie goes for $4M – Chicago Tribune
An autographed Chicago Bulls jersey that Michael Jordan wore in a preseason game during his rookie year sold for $4.215 ...
Walter Jacobson to broadcast final ‘Perspective’
For more than half a century, legendary Chicago anchorman and commentator Walter Jacobson has been broadcasting his views on everything ...
Mike Tyson sentenced on rape charges
Today is Wednesday, March 26, the 85th day of 2025. There are 280 days left in the year.Today in history:On ...
How India’s $14bn Muslim endowments are being plundered, even by government
Bhopal, India – In January this year in Ujjain, a city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, authorities ...
‘Give me liberty or give me death’ turns 250. Here’s what it meant in 1775
By BEN FINLEYThe phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has survived the centuries like a line in a ...
Trump administration release of JFK assassination records did not include two-thirds of the promised files, event expert says
More than 63,000 pages of records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday following an order by President Donald ...
Trump administration releases thousands of files on JFK assassination
Scholars and historians are likely to spend months sifting through records for answers about former US president’s killing.United States President ...
Trump says he will release 80,000 pages of JFK files on Tuesday
US president says files contain ‘a lot of reading’ about assassination that has fuelled conspiracy theories for decades.United States President ...
Haris Silajdzic: Bosnia’s crisis was planned in Belgrade | Politics
Bosnia’s wartime PM slams NATO’s Rutte for telling leaders to ‘take responsibility’ instead of naming the ‘perpetrator’.Three decades after war ...
Early Irish Chicagoans lived in a slum dubbed Kilgubbin
Kilgubbin won’t be found on modern-day maps of Chicago, but there once was a place known by that name — ...
Here’s what the symbolism of the California State Seal means – Orange County Register
The deal with sealsCalifornia is turning 175 years old later this year. To mark the occasion, we will be looking ...
Trump says William McKinley ‘made our country very rich through tariffs.’ But the 25th president changed his mind on tariffs after realizing ‘friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals’
"People did not regard this as a particularly healthy economy,” one historian said about the Gilded Age. Read More Source ...
California water wars: A century of wrangling over Los Angeles’s water
Just before midnight on March 7, 1928, the St Francis Dam, located roughly 80km (50 miles) inland of Los Angeles, ...
How the film I’m Still Here forces Brazil to face a dictatorship’s legacy
But the film has found resonance in the present as well as the past, as Brazil grapples with the fallout ...
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