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This photo of the group known as the Leesburg Stockade Stolen Girls was taken by Danny Lyons, a former SNCC photographer. It helped confirm the girls' location to their parents and civil rights activists.

They marched for desegregation — then they disappeared for 45 days

On July 19, 1963, during a march to desegregate a theater in Americus, Ga., a group of Black girls was arrested — and for the rest of the summer, their parents had no idea where they were.

July 19, 2023
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By:
  • Mycah Hazel
A screenshot from <em>Casablanca</em> showing Humphrey Bogart and Helmut Dantine.

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  • Movies

The real-life refugees of 'Casablanca' make it so much more than a love story

Casablanca is more than just a love story. It is a film about, and stocked with, the waves of refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe during wartime.

January 23, 2023
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By:
  • Nellie Gilles
<em>The Longest Game</em> is a new documentary from ESPN's 30 for 30 and Radio Diaries.

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  • Sports

It was the longest game in baseball history. And it made a hero of one man for a day

On April 18, 1981, two minor league teams met for an early season game of no real consequence. It would go down in history as one of the most extraordinary games ever.

August 31, 2022
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By:
  • Nellie Gilles
Ed Dwight in January 1962.

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  • Space

Ed Dwight was in line to be the first Black astronaut. History had other ideas

At the height of the space race in the 1960s, Air Force Captain Ed Dwight was chosen to attend a special astronaut training program. He tells the story of what happened next.

July 05, 2022
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By:
  • Mycah Hazel
Rahima Banu, pictured with her mother in Bangladesh in 1975, is recorded as having the last known naturally-occurring case of the deadly form of smallpox.

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  • Health

How Rahima came to hold a special place in smallpox history — and help ensure its end

Scientists went to extraordinary lengths to eradicate smallpox from the world. Rahima Banu is now recorded as having the last known naturally-occurring case of the deadly form.

May 20, 2022
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By:
  • Alissa Escarce and
  • Dil Afrose Jahan
Rahima Banu, pictured with her mother in Bangladesh in 1975, is recorded as having the last known naturally-occurring case of the deadly form of smallpox.

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  • Health

How Rahima came to hold a special place in smallpox history — and help ensure its end

Scientists went to extraordinary lengths to eradicate smallpox from the world. Rahima Banu is now recorded as having the last known naturally-occurring case of the deadly form.

May 20, 2022
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By:
  • Alissa Escarce and
  • Dil Afrose Jahan
Vita Linnik (left) and Sofia Bretl smile and pose in a photo booth during happier times.

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  • Europe

When deciding to flee Ukraine means leaving a family member behind

Sofia Bretl lives in New York City but she was born and raised in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. As conditions in Kharkiv worsened, Sofia's family faces a difficult decision

March 30, 2022
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By:
  • Nellie Gilles and
  • Joe Richman
Martha Lillard needed a large respirator called an iron lung to recover from polio, which she caught in 1953. She still uses a form of the device at nights.

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  • History

Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung to breathe

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 years old when polio incapacitated her. She still uses a form of the ventilator that saved her life as a child — though now she worries about replacement parts.

October 25, 2021
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By:
  • Erin Kelly and
  • Alissa Escarce
Fred Harris, pictured in 2016, is the last surviving member of the Kerner commission. Their report openly discussed racism in the U.S. in a way that sent shockwaves through the country.

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  • Race

The Kerner Commission's Last Living Member Says We Still Need To Talk About Racism

Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner commission, appointed in 1967 to study the root causes of social unrest in America. Its groundbreaking report blamed racism.

September 27, 2021
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By:
  • Mycah Hazel
Harry Pace started the first major Black-owned record label in the U.S., but his achievements went mostly unnoticed until recently, when his descendants uncovered his secret history."

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  • History

Radio Diaries: Harry Pace And The Rise And Fall Of Black Swan Records

Decades before Motown, Black Swan Records was the world's first major Black-owned record label. Radio Diaries brings us the story of Harry Pace and the mystery that kept him out of the history books.

July 01, 2021
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By:
  • Nellie Gilles and
  • Mycah Hazel
On March 1, 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists from New York carried out a shooting attack on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C. Front row, from left to right: Irving Flores Rodriguez, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Lolita Lebron and Andres Figueroa Cordero, stand in a police lineup following their arrests.

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  • History

Listen: Eyewitnesses Recount The 1954 Shooting Attack On The U.S. Capitol

There's been more than one attack on the U.S. Capitol. More than 60 years ago, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on lawmakers debating on the House floor.

January 17, 2021
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By:
  • Ben Shapiro
Deloris Melton Gresham in her home in Drew, Miss., holding photographs of her parents Clinton and Beulah Melton.

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  • History

Clinton Melton: A Man Who Was Killed In Mississippi Just 3 Months After Emmett Till

The murder of Emmett Till 65 years ago this week became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. Radio Diaries tells a lesser-known story of a Black man killed in a nearby town three months later.

August 28, 2020
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By:
  • Nellie Gilles and
  • Joe Richman
Fourth-generation funeral home director Patrick Kearns (left) and his business partner and brother-in-law Paul Kearns-Stanley stand in front of their funeral home in North Richmond Hill, Queens.

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  • National

New York Funeral Director: Pandemic Has Been A Wave That 'Knocks You Over'

Fourth-generation funeral director Patrick Kearns and his brother-in-law Paul Kearns-Stanley are partners in a 120-year-old family funeral business. They describe their unrelenting work and worries.

July 13, 2020
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By:
  • Jessica Deahl
Lavon (shown here before the pandemic hit) considers herself fortunate compared to other people without housing.

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  • National

For Portland Woman, Home These Days Is Where She Parks Her Minivan

Naida Lavon, 67, was recently furloughed from her job because of the pandemic, after losing her housing in March. Now, she lives out of her minivan as she navigates the changed world around her.

June 23, 2020
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By:
  • Nellie Gilles

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