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Source: Paul Morigi / Getty “Every month is Women’s History Month…” Korto Momolu, a fashion world fan-fave ever since making her debut as a designer on Project Runway in 2008 and serving us an epic return last year on Project Runway: All Stars, made sure to let us know that concrete fact quoted above. […]
Salah Al-Ejaili near his home in Sweden, in an undated photo. ‘It has taken a very long time to get here, but we got here,’ he said. Photograph: Josefine Stenersen/The Guardian The first trial to contend with the post-9/11 abuse of detainees in US custody begins on Monday, in a case brought by three men […]
The doors to this long-awaited Smithsonian museum opened in the fall of 2016. Located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this sprawling 105,000-square-ft exhibit space is “the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history and culture,” according to its website.
Asher Greene/Sipa USA via AP Jaedyn Shaw has scored seven international goals. CNN — When Jaedyn Shaw played youth soccer at FC Dallas, she would put her hair into a high ponytail, straightened, with a black prewrap. “A Mal Pugh ponytail,” Shaw called it, in honor of
These fascinating sites share important and often overlooked stories about people who shaped U.S. history and culture. National parks preserve the legacies of visionaries such as Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. They also protect landmark sites in the struggle for equality, including those included in the Emmett and […]
CNN — Middle school students in Mayade Ersoff’s Miami-Dade social studies class learn about the history of slavery in America through art. After lessons, students illustrate the harsh realities that enslaved people suffered: from being kidnapped and jammed onto slave vessels, to toiling in fields of cotton. “No one is agitated or . . .
Black History from Bellevue to Baltimore and Beyond Last week marked the beginning of Black History Month, a celebration of the important roles Black Americans have played in our country. Paying homage to the richness of Black heritage— including learning about the success and challenges Black Americans have overcome—makes our nation stronger. But in recent […]
By Nolan Helmstetter During Black History Month, a former death row inmate reminded us all that we can still strive for justice, love and forgiveness even amid societal injustice. On Feb. 18, 2024, the Boulder County Branch of the NAACP held a Freedom Fund Celebration for the community at CU’s Macky Auditorium. On that winter […]
1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Service members and families stationed at the Presidio of Monterey participate in the March for Remembrance, Monterey, Calif., Feb. 10. The march was led by Capt. Joseph McCall, far left, Chaplain for the 229th Military Intelligence Battalion. The march started at Lower Presidio Historic Park, and […]
In Port Isabel, Tex., runaway barges crashed into the Queen Isabella Causeway in the early morning darkness when a tugboat lost control of them. Two support pilings were knocked out, causing a section of the bridge to tumble into the water, according to the Federal Highway Administration. Eight people died when motorists, unwarned and unable […]