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Today in people’s history: The Japanese internment
February 19, 2015Over 127,000 Japanese Americans were sent to ten concentration camps in remote areas of Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and inland California.
Read moreTerrorism and the lessons of African American history
February 19, 2015President Obama cautioned us not to judge the more than a billion and half Muslims by the actions of relatively few violent extremists.
Read moreToday in African American history: Dr. Dre turns 50
February 18, 2015Dr. Dre, record producer and Grammy-winning rapper, born Andre Romelle Young in Compton, Calif., in 1965, turns 50 today.
Read moreLilo Heller, 94: Holocaust victim and citizen of the world
February 18, 2015Lilo Heller, a Holocaust survivor, was born in Germany in 1921 and witnessed the rise of Nazism.
Read moreA lynching in New Orleans
February 18, 2015How recent these events! How deeply seared in living human memory!
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