newsweek: Half way down a winding country road in New York’s wealthy Westchester County, one of America’s most famous revolutionaries lies buried under three feet of crisp white snow. It is 50 years since Malcolm X was gunned down at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and since then he has lain in Ferncliff…
asiasociety: Photos: See Asia Through the Lenses of the World’s Leading Photographers Take a photographic tour of Asia, featuring shortlisted images from the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s biggest photography competition. Read the full story here. Source: asiasociety.org
helenefleury: Photo by Adrian Jaszczak, Poland, Shortlist, Arts&Culture, Open, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards.
usatoday: A synchronized swim team in Singapore practices. (Photo by Jonathan Yeap Chin Tiong.) See more photos from the Sony World Photography Awards.
usatoday: “Berlin.” (Photo by Farid Sani.) See more photos from the Sony World Photography Awards.
todayinlaborhistory: Today in labor history, February 28, 1942: Sue Cowan Williams represents African-American teachers in the Little Rock School District as the plaintiff in a class action lawsuit challenging the disparity between black and white teachers’ salaries in the segregated South. The case was lost, but won in a 1943 appeal.
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think-progress: New Documentary Reveals Universities’ Responses To Rape Are Even Worse Than You Think The Hunting Ground begins with scenes of joy. We see high school students crowded around their computers, family and friends at their side, at the moment they receive their college acceptances. There is happy-crying, shrieking, hugging, cheering. Some just sit there,…
npr: Bernard Valencia’s room in the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif., illustrates how hospitals across the country could fight a nationwide epidemic. As soon as you enter the room, you can see one of the main strategies: A hook hangs from a metal track that runs across the ceiling. This…
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