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I was born in Texas and I'm afraid of not getting let back into 'hellscape' America
US author Attica Locke on the fear and loathing dominating her country, and why social media critics of the 47th President ...
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The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign that turned the National Mall into a protest slum for 42 days
Wikimedia Commons/Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Martin Luther King Jr. planned ...
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The Recording Industry's Music Performance Trust Fund Sponsors 66 Admission-Free Events in 26 Communities Celebrating Juneteenth in the United States
Trust fund invests more than $193,000 for admission-free, public musical performances celebrating Juneteenth National ...
How Philadelphia’s current sanitation strike differs from past labor disputes in the city
When over 200 city workers were laid off in September 1938, city workers called a weeklong sanitation strike. Street battles raged in West Philadelphia when strikers blocked police-escorted trash ...
A Bayard Rustin archive aims to preserve his legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist
Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...
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Today in History for July 17: In 1505, future church reformer, Martin Luther entered the Augustinian monastic order at Erfurt in present day eastern Germany. He was 21. In 1674, the second census of ...
Trump says U.S. economy is hurt by 'too many' federal holidays. Here's what our readers said.
President Trump said there should be fewer holidays because they are hurting the economy. Some Chronicle readers disagreed ...
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Despite judge’s ruling, Haitian immigrants in Houston worry about Trump’s bid to end their protected status
A federal judge in New York this week blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end Haitians’ temporary protected status ...
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Mamdani heads to Harlem after stunning New York City primary results
Zohran Mamdani spoke at a rally in Harlem on Saturday as he sought to build on momentum from New York City’s Democratic primary, telling the crowd that people struggling to pay for housing, ...