International Women's Day: Eight moments that make it the Year of the Woman


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Black history month post: Ida B. Wells

OP: The following was published in 2015.

Google Pays Tribute To Ida B. Wells, Fearless Journalist And All-Round Badass

Doodle celebrates the civil rights activist's 153rd birthday.
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Black history month post: When Jazz Age Superstar Josephine Baker Spied on the Nazis

The African-American singer and dancer was the toast of Paris when French intelligence asked her to spy on the Axis. It became one of her greatest performances.


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Black history month post: Which Slave Sailed Himself to Freedom?


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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) says it’s time for Democrats to run on single-payer health care across the country ( Read more... )

Universal health plan would save Californians $37 billion and cover more people, study finds

SACRAMENTO - As the California Senate considers voting this week on a proposal to replace private health insurance with a statewide plan that covers everyone, the proposal’s main backers on Wednesday announced it could save $37.5 billion in health care ( Read more... )

Ever since Chelsea Manning was revealed as the whistleblower responsible for one of the most important journalistic archives in history, her heroism has been manifest. She was the classic leaker of conscience, someone who went at the age of 20 to fight in the Iraq War believing it was noble, only to discover the dark reality not only of that war ( Read more... )

BARRINGTON, Ill. (WLS) -- An otter was released into the wild in Barrington on Monday after it was implanted with a chip that allows for its activities and behavior to be tracked ( Read more... )

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