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CNN — In July 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, teenager Shirley Reese joined a peaceful protest here in Americus, Georgia, with other young Black girls. Together, they walked to the Martin Theater and tried to buy movie tickets at the window designated for White customers. The police were called, according . […]
Boris and Karina Rotenberg. Getty Images In 2014, the U.S. sanctioned Boris Rotenberg, an oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It took another eight years before his wife Karina—a U.S. citizen—was targeted with sanctions in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In April 2015, attorneys working for the wife of a Russian […]
Published June 12, 2023, 9:00 am CT 2023-06-12 09:00 9:00 June 12, 2023 am Katherine Gilyard is a 2022-2023 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper editorial fellow. Explore their work. In 1921, the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and its roughly 10,000 residents faced . . .
By Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto 8 hours ago Image caption, Marie Bolden was 13 years old when she won America’s first-ever national spelling bee In 1908, Marie C Bolden, an African American teenager, became the first-ever spelling bee champion in the US, overcoming tricky words like ‘acquiesce’, ‘descendant’ and ‘millinery’ on her way to […]
The last two days have brought dramatic rescues, including small children emerging from mounds of debris more than 30 hours after Monday’s pre-dawn quake. But there was also widespread despair and growing anger at the slow pace of rescue efforts in some areas. Monday’s magnitude 7.8 quake and powerful aftershocks cut a swath of destruction that […]