13 Aug 2024New York State Bans Cat DeclawingNew York on Monday became the first state in the country to ban cat declawing, a practice that animal advocates consider cruel and unnecessary. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law after state legislators passed the ban last month.
13 Aug 2024New York Is First State to Ban Declawing of CatsNew York on Monday became the first state in the country to ban cat declawing, a practice that animal advocates consider cruel and unnecessary. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law after state legislators passed the ban last month.
11 Aug 2024No Longer Hidden: NASA Renames Facility After Katherine JohnsonNASA on Friday officially renamed a facility in West Virginia after Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician and centenarian whose barrier-breaking career was depicted in the film “Hidden Figures.”
11 Aug 2024No Longer Hidden: NASA Renames Facility After Katherine JohnsonNASA on Friday officially renamed a facility in West Virginia after Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician and centenarian whose barrier-breaking career was depicted in the film “Hidden Figures.”
19 May 2019Stolen 1780 letter by Hamilton resurfaces at auctionA letter written by Alexander Hamilton during the Revolutionary War has resurfaced more than seven decades after the document was stolen from the Massachusetts Archives, federal authorities said.
28 Mar 2019Mammy jars mock black people, why are they still collected?In a Black History Month roiled by tone-deaf scandals in politics and fashion involving blackface, shoes and balaclavas, you may have missed the one about mammy jars.
