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Storyteller & historian Brian Ellis to perform historical reenactment at Bishop HIll

This free program on Saturday November 13 is open to the public. It will start at 2 p.m. at the Dairy Building

Tulsa massacre was America’s KristallnachtSeveral years ago, an MSNBC pundit I admire made a blanket statement: “Nothing should be compared to the Holocaust or the Nazis, and no one should be compared to Hitler.” More recently, Susan Neiman reported...

Generator Catches Fire, Causes Lengthy Data Center Outage at WebNX The exterior of ther WebNX data center in Ogden, Utah. (Image: Google Maps) An emergency generator caught fire at a data center in Ogden, Utah over the Easter weekend, causing the full shutdown of the data center and lengthy outages for customers. The incident at a WebNX facility comes a month after a more serious fire that destroyed an entire OVH data center in Strasbourg, France. Dedicated server hosting firm WebNX says a back...

Charlottesville, Virginia, has finally received the green light to remove our spurned Confederate statues. After enduring years of legal delay and violent white supremacist attacks, on April 1 the Supreme Court of Virginia decided in favor of the city’s effort to rid its downtown parks of Jim Crow–era propaganda art. It is a fitting time for this ruling: April is Confederate History Month in many Southern states, although increasingly progressive Virginia ended the observance some years ago...

Search Lotte (left), Sonja, and Ursula in sailor suits made by their mother (Photo courtesy of Sonja Cowan) The past we step into Berlin - Sonja came into my life by happy coincidence, right in the middle of the pandemic. The message came, as so often in this hyperconnected year of physical isolation, in the form of a tweet.  The author of the message, Benjamin Preiss, was an Australian fellow journalist who had come across a blog post about my walk to work in Berlin.I had written it in J...

Googles Black History Month Doodle celebrates poet, activist Audre Lorde The acclaimed Black lesbian poet wrote of her hatred of racial and sexual prejudice. Listen - 04:57 Google celebrates acclaimed poet Audre Lorde for Black History Month. Google Google is turning the lens of its annual Black History Month Doodle on Audre Lorde, an internationally acclaimed poet and civil rights champion. The self-de...

Newfoundland: Learning From Norway One thousand years ago, the Norwegian Vikings ventured into the unforgiving mighty Atlantic Ocean to find new lands. As fate would have it, they discovered the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland. With a similar coastline, fishing, hunting and gathering, the Vikings must have felt very much at home in Newfoundland and Labrador.  Today, we can see the remnants of the timber-sod homes made by the Vikings, nestled into the shores of Lance-aux-...

Inside A Jewish Book Discussion Group By Betsy Groban | Jan 26, 2021 Marie Ariel is a politically involved book lover, former librarian, and co-chair of the Boston Workers Circle (BWC) Book Discussion Group. The Workers Circle for Jewish Culture and Social Justice is a 120-year-old, progressive, secular, multigenerational community, as well as an arts and culture center where Jewish identity is rooted in cultural heritage and the pursuit of a better world. This book group...