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New York State
New York State Federation Tournament of Champions Boys Basketball Class A semifinal
buffalonews.com - Miguel Rodriguez
Who: Park School Pioneers (25-2) vs. Albany Academy Cadets (17-3). When: 10:45 a.m. Saturday. Where: Cool Insuring Arena, Glens Falls. Rankings: Park is …
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Books
Colin Grant: ‘We’re still living with slavery’
The Guardian - Colin Grant
Over the decades it’s been inspiring to see black female protagonists occupy spaces previously denied them Two hundred years ago, slave narratives seemed one of the few routes to publication for black
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Why Are Giant Bouquets Popping Up in New York’s Trash Cans?
BizBash
Most street artists use spray paint and wheat paste to express themselves. Lewis Miller has chosen a more natural medium—flowers. At the end of last …
The Washington Post
School Administration
Arming police in Baltimore schools would be ‘putting a Band-Aid solution on a much deeper wound'
The Washington Post - Reporter
In January, the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners voted to oppose legislation in the State House that would allow school officers in city schools to carry guns on campus during the school day.
New York State
Ogdensburg Command Performances tickets available for Sunday’s performance of ‘Frankenstein’
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OGDENSBURG — Ogdensburg Command Performances is presenting Aquila Theatre’s production of the timeless Mary Shelley classic “Frankenstein” at 4 p.m. …
White Like Me
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This week, we’re exploring another overlooked angle of antebellum American history: how photography transformed the abolitionist movement—and in …
New York State
Aperture 233
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Aperture Magazine #233, Winter 2018 Family This issue of Aperture considers how artists and photographers have chronicled their relationships to their …
Brooklyn, NY
Capturing Community Through the Lens in Newburgh
brownstoner.com - Susan De Vries
Barbershops hold a particular place in community life, a common space where connections are forged and experiences shared. In Newburgh, N.Y. a recent …
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The Life of Sandra Day O’Connor
The New York Times
Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen Evan Thomas has written many books, but he was still wary before embarking on his latest project, “First,” a biography of Sandra Day O’Connor. “Judicial
Liberal View
Letters From the April 8, 2019, Issue
thenation.com - Calvin Trillin
A Question for “The Blob” Re Amanda Sperber’s “Terror Out of the Blue” [Feb. 25/March 4]: Lots of interesting facts and statistics on Somalia. Some …
Washington D.C.
Aaron Posner Celebrates the 6th President in Arena's JQA
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Prolific playmaker-about-town Aaron Posner says he chose John Quincy Adams as the subject of his entry in Arena Stage’s history-and-politics-focused …
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U.S. Politics
Harvard profiting from early images of slaves, descendant says in lawsuit
POLITICO - By BENJAMIN WERMUND
Harvard University is profiting from of one of the earliest known photographs of an enslaved man, despite requests by his descendants to stop doing so, the man's great-great-great-granddaughter says in
Photos
Hoda Afshar and how to see people as individuals
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Hoda Afshar, the individual, and their story colin pantallBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 20 The question of how the different members of society are …
Columbia University
2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Award Winners Announced
publishersweekly.com - By John Maher
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard have named the five winners and the two finalists of the 2019 Lukas …
African-American News
The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History
aaihs.org - By Robert Greene II
In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, …
Columbia University
Announcing the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Winners and Finalists
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Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the five winners and the two finalists of the …
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The First Empire And The Last Dominion.
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(ThyBlackMan.com) MAAT, the Egyptian notion of order, justice, harmony and balance in the life of the individual, the state and nature, prevailed for …
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Special Education
A teen was shot in his neighborhood, then experienced a shooting at school. 'Another day in Baltimore,' he says
baltimoresun.com - Talia Richman
When the first shot rang out inside Frederick Douglass High School last month, GoodGod Akinnibosun thought someone was dropping desks. Just moments …
Cannabis Industry
DC Dispensary Blazes Trail for Race, Gender Equity in Cannabis Industry
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Linda Mercado Greene turned the abstract ideal of social and gender equity into political action when she used collaboration, business savvy, and a …
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High School Sports
2019 Winter All-Met: Girls’ indoor track first team, second team, honorable mention
The Washington Post - By Washington Post Staff
WINTER ALL-MET 2019 Boys’ basketball | Girls’ basketball | Boys’ indoor track | Girls’ indoor track | Boys’ swimming | Girls’ swimming | Ice hockey | Wrestling The following student-athletes have been
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Food
A Beloved Restaurant Where Fried Chicken Achieves Its Highest Form
The New York Times - By REGGIE NADELSON
In this series for T, the author Reggie Nadelson revisits New York institutions that have defined cool for decades, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives. A February night in Harlem, 7 in the and
Detroit, MI
Moneyball Sportswear to open first store in metro Detroit
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The Lansing-based sports clothing retailer owned by a former University of Detroit Mercy basketball player is set to open its first store in metro …
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Women of Color
'Atlanta's Got a Mayor Named Keisha' Lance Bottoms: What Exactly Does That Mean For Black People?
Essence - Kirsten West Savali
There are not many people, let alone elected officials, whose names become a movement onto themselves. Keisha Lance Bottoms, 49, mayor of Atlanta, …
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams is the anti-Trump in the new play ‘JQA’
The Washington Post - By Peter Marks
At enticing moments, 2019 pokes its head up in the political currents of the 1820s in “JQA,” Aaron Posner’s crafty portrait of a faintly recalled president who managed only one term in the White House
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Opinion
'Armies of Deliverance' Review: The Fight for Salvation
The Wall Street Journal. - Harold Holzer
One month after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter, the New York Herald thundered that white Southerners were “ripe for their deliverance from the most revolting despotism on the
School Administration
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San Antonio, TX
Colorado's Bennet pleads with Democrats to care more about electability
mysanantonio.com - James Hohmann, The Washington Post
CONCORD, N.H. - Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., slammed his head on the table four times when I asked what he thought about other Democratic …
Women of Color
Women's History Month: Reclaiming the herstories of black woman suffragists
dailykos.com - Denise Oliver Velez
Watching Democratic Party women don white to attend the State of the Union address back in January in honor of the suffragists’ battle for the vote …
South Florida
Listen to parents: More charter schools needed nationwide | Opinion
sun-sentinel.com - Baker A. Mitchell Jr.
Placards carried by unionized teachers during their recent strikes in Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., and West Virginia were a study in misdirection. …
School Administration
Baltimore delegates vote against arming city school officers
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BALTIMORE — The bill to arm Baltimore City school officers appears to have come to an end once again. Baltimore’s delegates voted 10 - 5 against the …