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Cheers: James Lawson was born in 1928, the same year as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and was an important ally of KingÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Unlike King, who was cut down when he was just 39, Lawson was able to live a long life and see the changes ...

Higher education has taken quite a beating lately. Lawmakers have been going after administrators and faculty at high-profile institutions over Gaza protests and diversity initiatives. Students and parents are getting increasingly impatient with rising costs. Faculty are disgruntled in many ...

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Cheers: The tunnels that are cut through mountains and hillsides and under rivers are marvels of modern engineering. And itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ easy to imagine how awed drivers must have been a century ago when they traveled through the Liberty Tunnels in their Model Ts when it opened to traffic in January ...

In a distant corner of PittsburghÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ sprawling Allegheny Cemetery, you have to march up a steep hillside to find the grave of Josh Gibson. ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a flat stone, set in the ground, and has GibsonÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ game engraved on it, his dates of birth and death and the words “Legendary Baseball ...

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Cheers: Thanks to his job as a school supervisor in the communities within proximity to Avella, Alvin Dinsmore White was able to compile valuable information about people and families in the region. White himself died in 1994, just a few months before his 100th birthday, but his legacy ...

The first Memorial Day was commemorated on May 30, 1868, just a little more than three years after the end of the Civil War. The scars left by the war still ran deep – between the Union and the Confederate states, 620,000 combatants lost their lives. In the early 1860s, that was a full 2% ...