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An artist's rendering of "The Embrace," a memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that will be unveiled in Boston in 2023.

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  • National

Boston breaks ground on a Martin Luther King memorial of its own

More than seven decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lived, studied and preached in Boston, the city will soon have a memorial honoring him and Coretta Scott King, who met each other there.

April 28, 2022
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  • Tovia Smith
Gov. Brian Kemp

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  • News

Kemp signs into law hefty education package with eye on conservative voters

Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law Thursday a number of controversial education policies that have dominated election-year culture wars.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Riley Bunch
Students make their way through the Sather Gate near Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley, campus on March 29 in Berkeley, Calif.

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  • Education

University of California will waive tuition and fees for many Native American students

The program applies to undergraduate and graduate students who are members of federally recognized Native American, American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and will begin in the fall.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Rina Torchinsky
Students make their way through the Sather Gate near Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley, campus on March 29 in Berkeley, Calif.

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  • Education

University of California will waive tuition and fees for many Native American students

The program applies to undergraduate and graduate students who are members of federally recognized Native American, American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and will begin in the fall.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Rina Torchinsky
Jessie Montgomery's new work <em>Hymn for Everyone</em> receives its world premiere with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on April 28.

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  • Music Interviews

Can classical music really be inclusive? Composer Jessie Montgomery thinks so

With orchestras clamoring for her work, the rising artist feels a responsibility and opportunity to help reframe classical music and the institutions that present it.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
Jessie Montgomery's new work <em>Hymn for Everyone</em> receives its world premiere with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on April 28.

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  • Music Interviews

Can classical music really be inclusive? Composer Jessie Montgomery thinks so

With orchestras clamoring for her work, the rising artist feels a responsibility and opportunity to help reframe classical music and the institutions that present it.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's attorney says Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill failed to ensure a fair trial for him.

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  • Race

Derek Chauvin appeals his conviction for George Floyd's murder

A year after his conviction, the former Minneapolis police officer is asking a state court to send his case back to Hennepin County; order a new trial elsewhere; or order him to be resentenced.

April 27, 2022
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  • Bill Chappell
A general view of Harvard University campus is seen on April 22, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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  • Race

Harvard releases report detailing its ties to slavery, plans to issue reparations

A committee formed by Harvard President Lawrence Bacow found that Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people from the school's founding in 1636 to the banning of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.

April 27, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A general view of Harvard University campus is seen on April 22, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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  • Race

Harvard releases report detailing its ties to slavery, plans to issue reparations

A committee formed by Harvard President Lawrence Bacow found that Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people from the school's founding in 1636 to the banning of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.

April 27, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
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Jessica Watkins to be the 1st Black woman to serve at the International Space Station

On Wednesday, SpaceX launches the next NASA astronauts to the International Space Station — including Jessica Watkins, who is to become the first Black woman on a long-duration mission.

April 26, 2022
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  • Brendan Byrne

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  • Books

'Slaves for Peanuts' weaves a complex story crossing time and oceans

Jori Lewis tells eye-opening stories of individuals despite scant historical record. At the outset she asks: "How do we tell the stories of people that history forgets and the present avoids?"

April 26, 2022
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  • Martha Anne Toll
Ira Wallace talks about collard greens at Acorn Community Farm in Mineral, Va. "Purple is a color that develops in the winter much more strongly," Wallace says.

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  • Food

A community of seed savers has a recipe to revive rare varieties of collard greens

Collards were once as diverse as the Southern families they fed, but countless varieties have vanished. The race is on to preserve and propagate. That's where the Heirloom Collard Project comes in.

April 25, 2022
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  • Daniel Wood
Aunt Fanny's Cabin in Smyrna, Ga.

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  • News

A former Georgia restaurant with a complicated, racist past gets a future home

Aunt Fanny's Cabin, a Smyrna restaurant with a racist past, is moving.

April 25, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya

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  • Books

The pandemic inspired a cartoonist to explore their Wuhanese roots and queer identity

In the funny and heartfelt coming-of-age graphic memoir 'Messy Roots,' artist Laura Gao unpacks their relationship with their Asianness, queerness and their ever-changing home city of Wuhan.

April 24, 2022
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib
Matt Reeves, a former employee of Montpelier who was fired this week, is pictured outside of the historic Gilmore cabin at Montpelier.

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  • Race

Montpelier says it's open to parity with slave descendants. Descendants call foul

Problems at Montpelier, years in the making, reached a boiling point this week when a number of employees who had supported descendants of the enslaved were fired.

April 23, 2022
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  • Alana Wise
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