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Bert Bender of Key West’s Bender and Associates Architects has been honored by the U.S. Green Building Council as a “Sustainability Legend.”

COOKEVILLE, Tennessee — This small university town about 80 miles east of Nashville has joined the legion of other municipalities in the U.S. facing the issue of Native mascots used by school sports teams. On a pleasant Saturday afternoon, May 1, several dozen demonstrators led by Chiricahua Apache and Sayota Knight marched from the campus of Tennessee Tech University to the Putnam County Courthouse to hold a rally demanding the removal of the mascot name “redskins” by local Algood Middl...

Hundreds of Native people and their allies marched through in Californias capital to bring awareness to the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

This is a tale of two countries—Bolivia and the United States. Only one nation is pursuing justice against a corrupt leader.

La Fornarina (1518–1520). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The Unconfirmed Bachelor: When Raphael died in 1520, he was, officially speaking, a bachelor who was engaged to the niece of a powerful Vatican cardinal. But rumors over the centuries endured that he had a mistress, one Margherita Luti, a baker’s daughter from Siena. If true, the disparity between their respective positions would have been almost unimaginable—Raphael was a true celebrity of the Renaissance, known everywhere he went,...

Violent protesters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol. | John Minchillo/AP The phrase “ the chickens are coming home to roost” is well-known and often attributed to African American, anti-imperialist, revolutionary leader Malcolm X following the assassination of President  Kennedy in 1963.  This refers, of course, to mean that the wrongs committed by an individual or political entity will likewise have a boomerang effect and come back to punish the wrongdoing party in a s...

There’s an interesting theory that the Men in Black might be nothing less than full-blown time travelers, rather than aliens, tulpas, demons or government agents. Keeping that carefully in mind, it’s worth taking a look at an aspect of the Men in Black controversy that doesn’t get addressed too often. It’s the modes of transport that the M.I.B use when they are in in our time frame. Interestingly, they are almost always seen driving old-style, 1950s-era cars. And the cars are always bla...

two – not one – groups of Men in Black. One of the groups originated with the U.S. government. The other, however, has very different origins. So far, I have written five books on this subject ( On the Trail of the Saucer Spies; The Real Men in Black; Women in Black; and Men in Black). Over the years, I have come to realize just how weird this phenomenon is. Now, you will too. While there were a handful of M.I.B. cases in the late 1940s, it wasn’t until the early 1950s when the myster...

It is a tale of two countries regarding how Bolivia and the United States treat their people. On the one hand, there is Bolivia, a country that has embraced socialism, has overwhelmingly elected a progressive, anti-imperialist president, Luis Arce, and a country that has just initiated a program of...

they recalled the ebony hillbillies. i hope everyone will come to hear them. you will not believe them. >> what are some of the other groups who are looking forward to? >> trombone shorty is that in the deal of publicity lately. he is off the charts. we have a band coming up from new york. margo is phenomenal. the chocolate drops did a special on public broadcasting. they are fantastic. the anderson family band, i live in sheer terror of us having to follow a family band. theyre perfor...