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What Does It Mean to Collaborate in Photography?

A new book challenges the idea of the solitary genius, investigating photography's potential as a community action shaped by power.

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For socialism and freedom: the life of Eugene Debs

How Eugene V Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism – and became a true crusader for freedom

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The Pony Express Rides Again: 2015 re-ride underway

The Pony Express was in operation for just over a year and a half, but its legacy has proven to be a timeless testament to ingenuity and can-do spirit. In an era of limited transportation, a letter could leave St. Joseph, MO and arrive in Sacramento, CA ten days later.

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Tibetan Buddhist shrine with more than 200 artefacts donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art

The shrine comes from Alice S. Kandell, who amassed one of the most significant private collections of Tibetan Buddhist art in North America

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Remembering Jackie Robinson - Westfair Communications

  This year marks a number of milestones in the legacy of Jackie Robinson (1919-’72), the Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman and Stamford resident who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947. To celebrate his life and achievements, the Greenwich Historical Society will present a Tuesday, April 18, talk by Kostya Kennedy, author of “True: […]

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Bruce's Beach, Manhattan Beach: Dispossession

Meda Simmons Bruce, Harvey Bruce, and Willa Bruce at Bruce’s Lodge. date unknown. Photo from the California African American Museum
An American dream came to an end at Bruce’s Beach, but the memory of what happened survived
Third in a series
by Mark McDermott
By the first years of the 1920s, Manhattan Beach was coming together. In the decade since its founding, what had been mostly a scattering of sandswept shacks emerged as an actual town. A city hall was built and residents approved bonds to construct both a waterworks and a pier with a distinctive octagonal roundhouse at its end. The city’s population had increased, albeit modestly, from 600 people to almost 900. But one particular segment of the population was growing in a way that some people in the city found concerning.

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Tulsa Race Massacre: Elected officials on when they learned about it, how it influences them

On the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, we asked a cross-section of Oklahoma elected officials two questions: When and how did you first learn of the massacre, and

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