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In October 1871, a frenzied mob was responsible for the largest lynching in U.S. history.

The Numbers Game The first thing to bear in mind is that any number given is only an estimate. No one will ever be able to determine the exact death tol...

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Jun. 3—GU assistant professor of music Shuying Li will receive a 2021 Discovery Grant from the Opera Grants for Women Composers program funded by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Li and six other female composers will receive a total of $100,000, Opera America announced. The grant will support the development of Li's opera "When the Purple Mountains Burn." With libretto by Julian Crouch, ...

In March 2020, about a month after the South Korean film Parasite won four Oscars, including Best Picture—the first non-English language film to ever earn the Academy’s highest honor—US states began issuing lockdown orders for COVID-19. Shortly after, we began to hear reports of Asians and Asian Americans across the US being beaten, spit on, stabbed, and attacked in a multitude of other ways. Fast forward a year later, and not long after the Korean American film Minari was nominated for six Oscars, six Asian women—including four of Korean descent—were gunned down at three Atlanta...