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In 2023, then-President Biden enshrined Indigenous Peoples Day. Now Trump is blaming left-wing "radicals” and “arsonists” for "canceling" Columbus.

"Just as police tracked civil rights, Black Power, feminist, and anti-war protesters in the 1960s and ‘70s, today they snoop on organizers taking a stand against ICE, Israel’s war on Palestine, and Atlanta’s Cop City."

The concept of the showgirl in Las Vegas was borrowed most notably from Parisian cabarets that combined dancing, singing, gymnastics and costumes.

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

160,000 Chinese children were adopted by families across the world since this policy went into effect in 1992.

"The Trump administration’s assaults are not a deviation, but essentially a more extreme version of the same old American story. Just ask Indigenous people."

Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true.

There are very few “historically significant” sites associated with Black, Latino, or Native American communities.

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And why it’s a story we need to hear today.

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The actress achieved her wildest dream — and it turned into her worst nightmare.

“For me, being a young Roma means fighting every day for my rights.”

And the Russian-Jewish refugee who started National Woman's Day — a precursor to the international celebration.

“We are a people who want to be free,” Canales said.

The flu vaccine was tested on unconsenting people held in mental facilities.

Dr. Charles H. Wright said his mission was “ensuring that generations, especially young African Americans, are made aware of and take pride in the history of their forebears.”

Filipinos make up the largest ethnic Asian population on Hawai’i, but most classrooms didn’t teach Filipino history.

“I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man’s inhumanity to man.”