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Months before Blue Door (through May 19) opened at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company, playwright Tanya Barfield’s 2006 story of a Black mathematics professor disconnected from three generations of his ancestors had already rattled and rewarded its two-person cast and director Darryl V. Jones. During their early rehearsals of the play, the three men shared personal […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – MAY 20: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during the graduation ceremony for American University’s law school at American University in Washington, D.C. on May 20, 2023. Photo: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post (Getty Images)
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday stood before a monument commemorating Ghana’s independence from colonialism and envisioned a grand future between the U.S. and Africa, propelled by innovation on the continent. But she’s also insisting on exploring past wounds, heading to a seaside fort where enslaved Africans were loaded onto ships […]
Shortly after going to work for the Tulsa Historical Society in 2001, Michelle Place recalls historian Richard Warner hefting a large cardboard box atop her desk. “This is the most important collection that the Tulsa Historical Society has,” he told her. “Guard it with your life.” Warner had co-authored the final report of the 1921 […]
NEW YORK, July 7 (Reuters) – Growing worries about a potential recession in the United States are tempting some investors back into the Treasury market, despite bruising declines in U.S. government bonds throughout the first half of 2022. Surging U.S. inflation and rising interest rates have dulled the allure of Treasuries this year, dealing bond […]
As we come to the end of Black History Month, we should remember that the war on Black history has reached new heights in America. At the start of the month, a Montessori school in North Ogden, Utah, sent a letter to parents allowing them to opt out of having their children participate in Black […]
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