Don’t Ignore Race in Christopher Lane’s Murder
The association of young black men with violence doesn't come out of thin air


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THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.

What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust.

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ONE of the most important episodes in the history of gender re-assignment surgery took place in Bristol during the Second World War say researchers on the LBGT project ( Read more... )

As the world falls silent in memory of the Holocaust, a new book reveals how many of its architects were helped to live out their days in South America.

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The names of Himmler, Goering, Goeth and Hoess still have the power to evoke the horrors of Nazi Germany, but what is it like to live with the legacy of those surnames, and is it ever possible to move on from the terrible crimes committed by your ancestors ( Read more... )

Via The United States Holocaust Museum:


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First, a little bit of background. As many of the readers know, although the Japanese government recognized its responsibility for Imperial Japan's hand in forcibly recruiting Comfort Women, the Japanese government has not yet made any compensation out of government funds.

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Conservatives Criticize Pearl Harbor Day Asian Lunch Menu At Obama Children's School

In what seems to be an unfortunate coincidence, Sidwell Friends -- the school that Malia and Sasha Obama attend -- served an Asian-inspired lunch menu today, Pearl Harbor Day. The menu consisted of the following items:

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We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1st, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan by a team of elite US commandos, Navy SEALs, after he was captured, unarmed and undefended, in Operation Geronimo.

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