WASHINGTON—It was a text-message debate that led Scott Sandage and Jonathan White to discover a vital American artifact last weekend: a long-forgotten letter showing how Frederick Douglass really felt about a statue of Abraham Lincoln and a slave. Messrs. Sandage and White are history professors who have been on opposite sides of a dispute over…
The push to capitalize black to refer to African-Americans is far more than a typographical change.The prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement has helped reignite the debate over the capitalization of the word black. Above, protests continued last week following the killing by the police of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta.Credit...Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The…
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"This is the equivalent to having Hitler's statue in a Jewish community." In a debate on a Virginia street, protesters demanding a Confederate monument be re...
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…