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When tau proteins build up in human brains, they form tangles that progressively get worse causing memories and motor function to diminish. Hibernating bears also experience a massive accumulation of tau in the brain (the proteins may help protect neurons during inactivity), but hibernating bears can quickly clear out the tau-tangles upon wakening with their […]
South Dakota is experiencing a statewide outage, according to police. April 18, 2024, 12:47 AM ET • 3 min read Emergency 911 phone service has been restored in some of the areas hit by outages on Wednesday night. At least six cities in four different states across the United States reported experiencing 911 call outages […]
Footnotes [1] “Leasing the Smith School,” Boston Globe, Sept. 7, 1877.; “Acted On in Concurrence,” Boston Globe, Oct. 8, 1886.; “Passed in Concurrence,” Boston Globe, Sept. 9, 1887. [2] “National GAR Records Program – Historical Summary of Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Posts by State – Massachusetts,” Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil […]
Ida B. Wells is an African American civil rights advocate, journalist, and feminist. She is an American Hero. View a short video about her work to guarantee access to the vote. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862. She was the oldest daughter of James and Lizzie Wells. During Reconstruction, her parents […]
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 […]
Artwork from a Canal Exploration Center exhibit shows Captain John Malvin arriving at Lock 38 on his boat, The Auburn. NPS Image John Malvin and Lewis Clarke lived during the 1800s, and their stories connect to the Ohio & Erie Canal. The canal extended from the Ohio River through the . . .
Agrippa HullContinental Army veteran Black Military Service during the Revolutionary War Sentiment against the institution of slavery reached a peak in the year leading up to the Revolutionary War. Such vocal criticisms of slavery would not be heard again in the United States until the abolitionists of the Antebellum Era. Thousands of Native Americans […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashed off the coast of Yemen on Friday during a training mission and a search was under way for one U.S. service member, the U.S. military said. U.S. Central Command said in a statement that five other service members aboard the aircraft had been rescued after the […]
Footnotes [1] Carole Marks, “Black Workers and the Great Migration North,” Phylon 46, no. 2(2nd Qtr., 1985), 149. [2] Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (New York: Random House, 2010), 161. [3] Marks, “Black Workers and the Great Migration North,” 148. [4] Marks, “Black Workers and the […]
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry speaks to clergy and laity during the virtual International Black Clergy Conference on Nov. 12, 2020. [Episcopal News Service] Against a backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic and social, economic, political and racial upheaval – including conflicts over policing in the United States – Episcopalians and Anglicans from across the African […]