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A woman tosses a Ouija Board into a bonfire outside a church in New Mexico in 2001, after  the church's pastor urged parishioners to burn dozens of Harry Potter books and other types of literature and games they found offensive.

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  • National

When did America's culture wars begin, and how can they end? Jon Ronson has answers

America's culture wars are creating a world of "magnificent heroes and sickening villains" as people fight a fierce battle in black and white, says writer and podcaster Jon Ronson.

February 02, 2022
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  • Ari Shapiro and
  • Matt Ozug
At the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, African Americans carry placards demanding equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing and an end to bias.

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  • History

Here's the story behind Black History Month — and why it's celebrated in February

Black History Month grew from a weeklong celebration that started nearly 100 years ago — and it's not random that it's in February.

February 01, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the U.N. Security Council via a videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on Friday.

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  • World

Explaining NATO and Ukraine: How a 30-year-old debate still drives Putin today

Here is how the history of NATO, Russia and Ukraine got so complicated.

January 29, 2022
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  • Becky Sullivan
Comic book artist Art Spiegelman said this week that the McMinn County School Board seemed to have a "myopic" focus on the potentially offensive words and limited nudity in <em>Maus</em>.

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  • Books

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban the Holocaust graphic novel 'Maus'

The 10-member McMinn County School Board voted unanimously earlier this month to remove the book because of foul language and an image of a nude woman.

January 28, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
Salomon Abend, second from the left, at Beaune La Rolande.

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  • History

A discovery of Holocaust-era photos helps a Jewish family connect with its past

A box of photos discovered more than 30 years ago includes pictures of an internment camp and many who died at Auschwitz. The photos were recently reunited with the Jewish family they belong to.

January 27, 2022
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  • Greg Allen
Public officials including Israeli Knesset President Mickey Levy, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a wreath-laying ceremony on International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on Thursday in Berlin.

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  • World

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, revisit NPR's stories from survivors

The annual day of commemoration comes admist a rise in antisemitic incidents and Holocaust denialism in the U.S. and other parts of the world.

January 27, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Imani Perry speaks at the Brooklyn Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in New York, on Jan. 17.

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  • Race

Want to understand the U.S.? This historian says the South holds the key

Imani Perry says the South can be seen as an "origin point" for the way the nation operates. Her book South to America reflects on the region's history and traces the steps of an enslaved ancestor.

January 25, 2022
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  • Dave Davies
Philip and Ruth Lazowski, both Holocaust survivors, married over a decade after Ruth's mother saved him from a massacre, Philip said.

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  • History

A family helped a Holocaust survivor escape death. Then they became his real family

At 11, Philip Lazowski found himself alone in a Nazi ghetto as Jews were being sent to their deaths during WWII. At StoryCorps, Philip, now 91, remembers a quick decision that may have saved his life.

January 21, 2022
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  • Jo Corona and
  • Emma Bowman
Wide view of the interior of Hodgson Hall after its renovation completed in 2022

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  • History

Newly reopened, revamped Georgia Historical Society building boasts twice as much archival storage

The Georgia Historical Society's research center in Savannah reopened Wednesday to the public, after being closed for three years for renovation. Historians and amateurs alike can access more materials than ever before.

January 19, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
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  • Science

Encore: Ancient footprints mistakenly attributed to bears were made by early humans

A new look at nearly 3.7 million-year-old fossil footprints uncovered in Tanzania shows that multiple species of early humans lived together at the same time.

January 18, 2022
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
From center left to right: Yolanda Renee King, Arndrea Waters King and Martin Luther King III, lead the annual D.C. Peace Walk: Change Happens with Good Hope and a Dream across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge for Dr. Martin Luther King Day in Washington, D.C.

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  • National

MLK's memory is honored by demonstrators calling for the passage of voting rights bill

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would. have turned 93 on Jan. 15. He was just 39 when he was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.

January 17, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Dr. Martin Luther King in Macon 1968

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  • History

‘He was a powerful presence.’ Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.’s last visit to Macon

Dr. Martin Luther King’s walk up the seven steps to New Zion would be his last walk in Macon. It came on one of the final Georgia stops of a blow-through-town campaign for the poor. It was 1968.

January 17, 2022
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  • Joe Kovac
Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee and his great grandson Iain Lanphier are seen during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Feb. 4, 2020. McGee, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars, died Sunday.

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  • Obituaries

Celebrated Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102

Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars, has died.

January 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Rabbi Israel Dresner's synagogue, Temple Sha'arey Shalom, in Springfield, N.J., on Jan. 18, 1963. Dresner became close to King when he was an activist for civil rights in the 1960s.

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  • Obituaries

Israel Dresner, rabbi who marched with Martin Luther King, dies at 92

Rabbi Israel "Sy" Dresner was one of the early Freedom Riders in the 1960s civil rights movement and was close with King. He said Jewish teachings and Jewish history compelled his activism.

January 16, 2022
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  • Tovia Smith
Glenn Youngkin waves to the crowd at his inauguration on Saturday Jan. 15, in Richmond, Va.

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  • National

Republican Glenn Youngkin is sworn in as the governor of Virginia

The businessman, the first Republican to hold the office in nearly a decade, took the oath alongside Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears. The pair surprised Democrats when they swept office in November.

January 15, 2022
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  • Ben Paviour and
  • Michael Pope
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