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Public historian and historic site interpreter of US racial history and the domestic and international slave trade.
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BREAKING: The FAA will cut air traffic by 10% at 40 airports across the country starting Friday if shutdown continues. https://cnn.it/3Xfbhzs
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

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Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square. n.pr/49pygiD
A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled
A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I'm obsessed with how much ancient history wikipedia editors managed to fit into the "yo mama" article
"ancient times": "The incarnations of filial piety in various cultures are reflected by examples through history. Rabbi Eliezer (c. 100 CE) was said to have interrupted a man reading aloud the opening words of the then-banned and still-troubling Ezekiel 23.[5] Man: "Mortal, proclaim to Jerusalem her abominations..." Eliezer: "Why don't you go out and proclaim the abominations of your mother?" "Plutarch's biography of Cicero notes that:[6] Again, in a dispute with Cicero, Metellus Nepos asked repeatedly "Who is your father?" "In your case," said Cicero, "your mother has made the answer to this question rather difficult." In the Strategies of the Warring States, it is recorded that the following was said by the King Wei of Qi after "
May 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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John Fulton's (@5amjournal.bsky.social) #advocacy piece on Denver Art Museum workers' unionization win just dropped ncph.org/history-at-w.... 🔥 👏

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How Denver Art Museum workers shape the future of cultural labor | National Council on Public History
After a difficult campaign, the Denver Art Museum became the first art museum in Colorado to unionize in March 2024.
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May 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower envisioned the Kennedy Center as an "artistic mecca." President Trump recently told reporters he'd never seen a show there.
The Kennedy Center's history was marked by cooperation and independence — until now
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower envisioned the Kennedy Center as an "artistic mecca." President Trump recently told reporters he'd never seen a show there.
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February 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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A spokesperson for the Kennedy Center says the threat targeted Shen Yun, a touring dance troupe that is banned in China, because it is associated with the religious group Falun Gong.
Kennedy Center evacuates due to bomb threat targeting Shen Yun
A spokesperson for the Kennedy Center says the threat targeted Shen Yun, a touring dance troupe that is banned in China, because it is associated with the religious group Falun Gong.
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February 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM