The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...
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For historically Black Altadena, the combined wildfire loss of generational wealth and personal heirlooms is indescribable
When Ludd-Lloyd bought her home a mere four years after the end ... library.’” Or at least they did until the fire. The five-acre green space, named after Charles White, a local Black artist ...
Time26d
White House’s Pandemic Office, Busy With Bird Flu, May Shrink Under Trump
The White House office in charge of preparing for the next pandemic is down a wide black-and-white checkerboard ... are returning to their home agencies. For months, health experts have been ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch27d
Author of book on Black family's legacy of trauma will speak at St. Louis County Library
Author Lee Hawkins makes a compelling argument about why Black families should end corporal punishment in ... Hawkins will be speaking at St. Louis County Library, the Clark Family Branch, at ...
The New York Times11d
Amid Trump’s Anti-Diversity Effort, Black History Month Takes On New Meaning
The Air Force even removed a video celebrating the Tuskegee Airmen, a segregated unit of Black pilots who fought in World War II, before restoring it amid an uproar. Asked how the White House ...
AZ Central23d
Donald Trump is moving into the White House. Here's everything to know about his new home
The President-elect, who is set to take the oath of office ... White House has 132 rooms, according to the White House Historical Association. The ground floor features the Family Theater, Library ...
USA Today23d
'It's a beautiful day': Joe Biden departs White House for final time as president
the highest elected office in the land. A long motorcade of black limousines and SUVs rolled down the driveway of the White House North Lawn at 10:39 a.m., through the iron gates surrounding the ...
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Trump’s attack on the federal workforce is an attack on the Black middle class
The most well-known example of this shows up at your home every day: the U.S. Postal Service. The Post Office Department ... greater predictor of a white backlash than Black success.
MSNBC23d
Americans are in need of third spaces. Starbucks just took itself off the list.
Americans, young and old, are in desperate need of such places away from home and away from the office (or school ... just enjoying the ambience and white noise.” Outside of libraries (where ...
The Greenville News27d
Ruth Ann Butler, a civil rights leader, Black historian, and Cultural Exchange founder, dies
We weren’t allowed to go to the library, to any of the public facilities. "We didn’t get office jobs. We weren’t allowed to go to certain colleges – only black ... as a home for The ...
Boston.com28d
Home of the Week: This South End penthouse boasts commanding view of Boston skyline
It offers two levels of white, smooth-front cabinets without pulls or knobs, black quartz countertops ... a floating stairway leads to the second level, home to the primary suite, two bedrooms ...
The New York Times22d
Trump Says ‘America’s Decline Is Over’ as He Returns to Office
The day’s schedule was packed with traditional events — there was a White House meeting ... of the voting rights group Black Voters Matter. “And she left that office with her character ...