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Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself – Vox
Do they teach children about Martin Luther King and the FBI in school these days?
"We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security," FBI Domestic Intelligence Chief William Sullivan wrote in a memo two days later.
I was watching the crowd at the anti-vaccination protest at the Capitol today from my new office that overlooks the Capitol, and I have to say democracy is quite healthy, even if that means you don’t always get your way
I was watching the crowd at the anti-vaccination protest at the Capitol today from my new office that overlooks the Capitol, and I have to say democracy is quite healthy, even if that means you don’t always get your way.
People are out, speaking up, being seen and being heard. That’s key to DEMOCRACY. 🗝
Shots – Health News : NPR
Data transparency advocates celebrated the release. "This is really huge," says Ryan Panchadsaram, co-founder of the website COVID Exit Strategy, who was consulted by HHS about the dataset. "What you can see in this data is that our hospitals are under so much stress. And when we're thinking about how serious we should be taking this crisis, this open data release is helping provide the data that's needed to help people make the right decisions."
“Do You Hear What I Hear” was actually about the Cuban Missile Crisis – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
We often take Christmas carols at face value. But at least one holiday favorite, “Do You Hear What I Hear,” contains more than what first meets the ear.
Written during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the song contains references to the fear of a nuclear attack. Many of the phrases it contains, such as “a star, dancing in the night, with a tail as big as a kite” can be interpreted in two ways: as the bright star of Bethlehem that leads the Magi to the baby Jesus—or as the sight of a nuclear missile in flight. “The star was meant to be a bomb,” the composers’ daughter, Gabrielle Regney, explained to GBH News, the magazine of the Boston public radio station, in 2019.
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DALLAS — Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who as a 26-year-old successfully argued the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court, died Sunday. She was 76.
Susan Hays, Weddington's former student and colleague, said she died in her sleep early Sunday morning at her Austin home. Weddington had been in poor health for some time and it was not immediately clear what caused her death, Hays told The Associated Press.
Raised as a minister's daughter in the West Texas city of Abilene, Weddington attended law school at the University of Texas. A couple years after graduating, she and a former classmate, Linda Coffee, brought a class-action lawsuit on behalf of a pregnant woman challenging a state law that largely banned abortions.