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Updated Oct. 17, 2023 10:31 pm ET WASHINGTON—President Biden flew to Israel on Tuesday to show his support for the beleaguered country, hours after an explosion at a hospital in Gaza killed hundreds, further inflaming the region and prompting cancellation of a summit with Arab leaders.
Black Star, the famed photo agency based in New York, has in many ways, shaped modern photojournalism. Over 80 years, the photographers who worked through Black Star have covered major events, those in power, and the daily lives of people around the globe through war and peace. Many of the famed photojournalists you can call […]
TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Tonya Mosley. This week, the late rapper Tupac Shakur would have turned 52 years old. He was killed in 1996 at the age of 25. And over the decades, a flurry of books and documentaries have been created and written about his short life and the way […]
Published September 11, 2023 A little before noon on the first day of classes in August for the 2023 academic year, nearly 200 of Duke’s Black students gathered at the foot of Duke University Chapel for “FDOC Fits.” Part reunion and part fashion show, the annual event is a chance for students to reconnect, celebrate […]
Flannery O’Connor, the gothic short story writer born in Savannah, Georgia, was, in her own words, “an integrationist by principle and a segregationist by taste.” Born in 1925 and now regarded as one of her generation’s greatest and most pointed authors, she used the N-word freely in her correspondence. According to an article in The […]
A woman passes by a mural of the rapper Biggie Smalls on a wall in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images A woman passes by a mural of the rapper Biggie Smalls on a wall in the Bushwick section of […]
Americans’ views of progress on racial equality, different forms of protest and what needs to change Martin Luther King Jr. waves to civil rights supporters in Washington, D.C., during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963. (AFP via Getty Images) Pew […]
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So Simkins, who became one of Greensboro’s preeminent civil rights figures, and his friends – Phillip Cooke, Joseph Sturdivent, Samuel Murray, Elijah Herring and Leon Wolfe – decided to try and make that change. They paid their greens fees, which came to 75 cents each, and teed off. Soon the head pro, Ernie Edwards, confronted […]
Cillian Murphy portrays physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Christopher Nolan biopic “Oppenheimer.” Universal Pictures/Getty Images Seventy-eight years ago this month, the world entered the atomic era when a group of scientists led by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer detonated the first-ever nuclear weapon at the Trinity test site in central New Mexico. This weekend, […]