Monday, December 2, 2024

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Mon Dec 2 2024

Keep your eyes open: Rosenwald Schools are everywhere

Elroy and Sophia Williams at the Hopewell School, a Rosenwald School at Cedar Creek in Bastrop County. Sophia's formerly enslaved grandparents, Sophia Veal and Martin McDonald, shown in a portrait from the 1920s, acquired and donated the land for the school. This photo is part of an exhibit about the Rosenwald School movement at the Bullock Texas State History Museum.

More than 100 years ago, Rosenwald Schools popped up all over the South to educate Black students.

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Tijuana residents march in opposition of the migrant caravan having arrived in the city of Tijuana on the border between Mexico and the U.S. The marched walked towards the shelter were 2000 migrants are being housed and were stopped by Tijuana's municipal police before reaching the shelter.

'We've been invaded': Mexican views on migrants harden

As President-elect Donald Trump plans a mass deportation, he may find support for tougher enforcement in Mexico.

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Sep 12, 2024; Hilliard, OH, USA; Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks to reporters during a grand opening ceremony for Forsee Power's North American Headquarters & Industrial Site.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs transgender bathroom ban

The new law will require K-12 and college students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their sex assigned at birth.

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Shoua Vue tends to kale crops at her family's farm in Morganton, N.C., Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. The kale was planted after flood waters from Tropical Storm Helene destroyed many of the crops at the farm.

North Carolina's Hmong farmers start to regrow after Helene flooding

Set in the small town of Morganton about an hour east of Asheville, Lee's One Fortune Farm suffered more than $62,000 in damages from Helene flooding.

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Anna Tsouhlarakis at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. during her performance exhibit KINSHIP in 2022.

Indigenous artists moving into contemporary art space

After decades of "staying within the lines" of traditional Native art, Indigenous artists are increasingly moving into the contemporary art space.

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