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She Lost Her Husband. She Found Her Mission: Helping Children Deal With Grief

"Almost blissful" -- Jackie Robinson's year in Montreal before he integrated Major League Baseball

After Decades of Neglect, the L.A. River Is Making A Comeback

Die Hard: The Agony and Ecstasy of Being An Oakland A's Fan

Why Don't We Like It When People Say, Like, Like?

Confessions of a Substitute Schoolteacher (me)

"Silent Crisis" -- Thousands of Missing and Murdered Native Americans

Struggle and Hope: A Week on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana

Are Bright Lights at Night Hazardous to Your Health?

A New American Dilemma: Schools Resegregating

For new immigrants, the importance of learning English

A Journey to Jura, Scotland: Where Orwell Wrote 1984

Will the Great Salt Lake become the Great Salt Puddle?

He used to be a banker. Now he makes wine.

Isle Royale National Park in Michigan, one of the least visited parks in America, is worth the trouble to get there

The Cost of Freedom: The Life and Death of Marine Sgt. John Basilone, American Hero PART 2

The Cost of Freedom: The Life and Death of Marine Sgt. John Basilone, American Hero

Football, Canadian Style.

Great Leap Forward: From Career to Post-Career. A Conversation with ex-ABC newsman Dan Harris

My Road Less Traveled Was Very Slow, but Worth Every Minute (840 minutes, to be exact)

Detroit, 1925: A Black family moved into an all-white neighborhood. The next night, a mob came.

"I never would have dropped out if I'd had my posse with me."

Do We Discriminate Against People with Accents?

Want to be Happy and Healthier? Be a Sports Fan!

Living In Chains: Patients with Mental Illness in West African Prayer Camps

Into the Heart of Darkness: Searching for the Stars In The Night Sky

He was No. 4 in the FBI. Now he drives a school bus

He Was The Second African-American To Integrate Baseball

I Finally Got A Baseball

What Is Your Ikigai? Finding Pleasure and Purpose In Life

Are Rats Taking Over New York City?

Second Act: Volunteering in Retirement

With a record 630 wins, Harvard women's basketball coach steps down

Could the Ukraine Crisis Lead to Nuclear Conflict? Part 2

Could The Ukraine Crisis Lead To Nuclear Conflict?

He was a leading musical arranger of African-American spirituals. He also played stereotyped Black roles in movies

The Alamo & The Birth of Texas: Fact? Fiction? Myth? or Propaganda?

African-Americans trace their family lineage to Africa through DNA tests

Remembering The Iraqi Boy Who Survived the Horror of War

Midori, renowned violinist, brings the magic of music to children

The Magnificent Murals of East Harlem

The Black American Anthem and how it became that

Remembering Sidney Poitier

Are You Superstitious? Here's What It May Say About You