Social Movements, Rights & Identity

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (219+ words) Sep 13, 2026, 1:07 PM On Sept. 11, 2001, more than 2,700 people were killed when two planes crashed into the Twin Towers in Lower Manhattan. Another 224 people died in two other plane crashes at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania. To this day, countless survivors and…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (845+ words) The night of August 14, 1791, marked the beginning of a series of events that changed the world. A large group of enslaved people and rebel leaders met at Bwa Kayiman (Bois Caïman), a historic site located in Haiti’s Northern Department, in…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (421+ words) The first beach to be stormed by the Allies on D-Day has become a launchpad for mega-dinghies carrying illegal migrants, according to reports. Utah Beach was a key battlefield for the tens of thousands of troops who landed in Normandy…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (562+ words) Step back in time and take a “swift ride on the Soul Train” in celebration of the first Black labor union. The NAACP San Luis Obispo County Branch is partnering with the SLO Railroad Museum for “From Pullman to Soul…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (421+ words) The first beach to be stormed by the Allies on D-Day has become a launchpad for mega-dinghies carrying illegal migrants, according to reports. Utah Beach was a key battlefield for the tens of thousands of troops who landed in Normandy…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (265+ words) July 1972. I was 11 years old. In a country tense with uniformed killings and violent recrimination, my mother’s Austin A40 made a tortuous one-day journey to Toormore Bay in west Cork. It was a warm summer, but televised outrage had kept the…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (174+ words) Dr. William Anderson, the Georgia doctor and World War II veteran who stepped out of his office to lead a pivotal movement in the fight for civil rights, has died at 98. As a Black doctor in 1961 in Albany, Georgia, Anderson…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (124+ words) Ireland Daily Life Journal-News.com A cow grazes near the Cliffs of Moher, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, in County Clare, Ireland. Oktoberfest, high school football: Expect slow traffic in Springboro tonight ‘It was our Pearl Harbor.’ How those who serve…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (408+ words) An American adventure to trace an Irish family linage has seen one family trek nearly 4,500 miles to the Tyrone countryside. Green hills and the fresh autumn sun dawned over St Mary’s Graveyard in Rouskey when a packed taxi split the…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (661+ words) On this day in 1947, a judge freed Fargo mother Ethel Selstrom from a suspended jail term, ruling she had acted in good faith and had not violated the conditions of her release. The threat of eight months in jail was…...