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'Centrism Is Canceled': High Schoolers Debate the Impeachment Inquiry
CHALMETTE, La. — It was impeachment day in Mr. Dier’s world history class at Chalmette High School. Andrew Johnson, the first impeached president, was on the lesson plan. So was Richard M. Nixon, who avoided facing such a fate by resigning. Bill Clinton, who also was impeached but never convicted, was also part of the discussion.
A Youth Camp Where No Issue Is Off Limits
(Summer in America)
Strangers Pull Together to Support a Widower of the El Paso Shooting
EL PASO, Texas — Just about every morning for the past two weeks, Antonio Basco has risen before dawn to buy as many floral bouquets as he can fit in his car and carried them to a makeshift memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in El Paso.
An El Paso Widower Mourns in Solitude, Amid a Throng of Kind Strangers
EL PASO, Texas — Just about every morning for the past two weeks, Antonio Basco has risen before dawn, eaten a breakfast burrito and driven to two stores in El Paso to buy as many floral bouquets as he can fit in his sport utility vehicle.
El Paso Widower Is Embraced by Strangers but Mourns in Solitude
EL PASO, Texas — Just about every morning for the past two weeks, Antonio Basco has risen before dawn, eaten a breakfast burrito and driven to two stores in El Paso to buy as many floral bouquets as he can fit in his sport utility vehicle.
Who Killed Atlanta's Children?
ATLANTA — On the fifth floor of the Atlanta Police Department headquarters, more than a dozen investigative files of dead children are neatly spread across three tables. A handwritten list, scribbled in red ink, provides the names of some of the children who were killed. The years of each killing — 1979, 1980 and 1981 — are taped on three walls, along with grainy photos of the children, almost all of them smiling.
Who Killed Atlanta's Children?
ATLANTA — On the fifth floor of the Atlanta Police Department headquarters, more than a dozen investigative files of dead children are neatly spread across three tables. A handwritten list, scribbled in red ink, provides the names of some of the children who were killed. The years of each killing — 1979, 1980 and 1981 — are taped on three walls, along with grainy photos of the children, almost all of them smiling.Hate Crime Hoaxes Are Rare but Can Be 'Devastating'
The Muslim college student was on the New York City subway when three men snatched her bag, reached for her hijab and called her a terrorist. A Houston sixth-grader was kidnapped and robbed by a band of young white supremacists, one with an “I hate black people” tattoo on his arm. And on one of the coldest nights of the year in Chicago, Jussie Smollett, a black and gay actor, was attacked by two men who shouted “MAGA Country” and slipped a noose around his neck.Why a Town Is Finally Honoring a Black Veteran Attacked by Its White Police Chief
It was a racial assault so vicious that it became one of the early chords of the civil rights movement, and led to the desegregation of the military.
Why a Town Is Finally Honoring a Black Veteran Attacked by Its White Police Chief
Hours after Sgt. Isaac Woodard Jr., 26, a decorated African-American veteran, was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 1946, he boarded a Greyhound bus headed home to Winnsboro, South Carolina. About an hour from where he lived with his wife, Woodard, still in uniform, was forcibly removed from the bus, brutally beaten and jailed by the white police chief in the town of Batesburg.Commencement speaker's gift to graduates: He'll pay off their loans
The 396 young men began the day as students in caps and gowns, ready to graduate from Morehouse College — full of hope, but burdened in most cases with the debts that financed their education.
Emmett Till's murder, and how America remembers its darkest moments
The murder of Emmett Till is remembered as one of the most hideous hate crimes of the 20th century, a brutal episode in American history that helped kindle the civil rights movement.
