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Keep on reading to learn of the ways you can celebrate Black History Month. At a time when racism and division seem be reaching a boiling point in our nation, we need to celebrate Black History Month more than ever. Whether we have children or not,...

When you think of Martin Luther King Jr., all sorts of things immediately spring to mind. The climax of the "I Have a Dream" speech. The Montgomery bus boycotts. Maybe some black-and-white images of the man meeting with important people or contemplating...

Welcome to the weekend. President-elect Donald Trump is in Bedminster, New Jersey, this morning, where he’s greeting a parade of potential administration appointees. The Guardian's Ben Jacobs, who is on pool duty in New Jersey, says that there might...

United States President George W. Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001. It was at the school that Bush learned of the second plane crashing into theWorld Trade Center, and where he made his first public comments about the September 11 attacks.As...

I would like to say on his behalf that Colson Whitehead that he is overjoyed to be here, even if he does not show it. “I have a good poker face,” Whitehead wrote in Noble Hustle, his book about gambling and Las Vegas, “because I am half dead inside....