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Claire Hope Cummings, author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, ponders the false dichotomy between science and religion that still roils American classrooms two hundred years after Darwin’s birth.
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A selection of quotes from “Language is a Place of Struggle”: Great Quotes by People of Color edited by Tram Nguyen.
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Today’s post, a poem written in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is from poet, activist, and scholar Sonia Sanchez. Sanchez, one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, is Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University. She is the author of thirteen books, including Shake Loose…
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The 90th anniversary of the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 and five years after the publication of his book about the disaster, Dark Tide, Stephen Puleo talks about the enduring popularity of the book.
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Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, talks about what compelled her to share her family’s story of relocation from their home in Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand to the United States.
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Gobin Stair, former Director of Beacon Press, died last Wednesday, November 26, at the age of 96. Stair joined Beacon initially as Production Manager before taking over as Director in 1962, a position he held until his retirement in 1975. The books published during Stair's tenure speak to his courage and convictions as a staunch…
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So here’s my problem teaching cultural history: I am a devout and devoted, dedicated and dutiful, fan of the Boston Red Sox. There are many, many, many well known burdens in being a fan of Boston. Until recently, there was the whole “curse” thing. The year 1918, which could be mentioned for many historically important…
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For many, Barack Obama’s birthplace, Hawaii, is the closest thing to paradise on earth. In fact, however, a perverted search for paradise led Western Europeans to conquer and colonize both North America and Hawaii. Unlike the colonizers of the last five hundred years, early Christians believed that the whole earth, including where they already lived,…
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