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She Was Battling Virginia Segregation at the Age of 9
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoJessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesSometimes you can tell a book by its cover. That’s...
How a girl in the old South grew up to be a civil rights historian and a Harvard president
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoDrew Gilpin Faust's memoir, "Necessary Trouble," documents how a privileged Virginia girl became a civil rights activist, historian and Harvard president.
How a NY high school student set the record straight for a Black Civil War vet
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoBuried under a weathered gravestone in Milltown Rural Cemetery in Brewster, New York, lies Pvt....
The Atlantic To Publish New Anna Deavere Smith Play ‘The Ghost Of Slavery’ In Full
Deadline via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoFor the first time in nearly a century, The Atlantic magazine will publish a new play: The Ghost of...
Harvard Will Have Its First Black Leader as Claudine Gay Is Named University's Next President
People via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoHarvard University has made a historic appointment with the school's 30th president. Claudine Gay, a...
Abcarian: In a righteous world, Trump couldn't run. Does the Supreme Court live in that world?
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoThe Supreme Court could choose the least fraught way out of the cases that will decide Donald...
Bestsellers list Sunday, September 10
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoSOCAL BESTSELLERS … Hardcover fiction 1. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (Harper: $30) At a Michigan orchard, a woman tells her three daughters about a long-ago romance. 2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, ...