Ninety-year-old Connie White says her father, Silas White, always wanted to do something for his Black community in Santa Monica, California. Several decades ago, her father opened a laundromat across from Santa Monica College, along with two real estate offices and a successful hamburger stand in the area. Silas White’s family is fighting to reclaim […]
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Descendants of Black icons gather at the White House in a historic meeting
Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the descendants of some of the most prominent Civil Rights leaders from the 1950s and ’60s and other foundational historic figures, who gathered at the White House on Tuesday, some convening in the same room for the first time. The families of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Ida […]
Highly mutated COVID variant ‘Pirola’ JN.1 is spawning. Its descendants are climbing the charts, as the global death toll mounts
Nearly 10,000 COVID deaths occurred globally in December, the World Health Organization said this week—this as highly mutated variant “Pirola” JN.1 offspring spawn and begin their upward ascents in the U.S. and elsewhere. The global wave occurs after holiday gatherings, as expected, and comes as JN.1 dominates worldwide, the organization’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, […]
Pilgrimages to Idaho’s WWII incarceration camp are profound for survivors, descendants
This is the second of two stories. The first is “Survivors of Idaho’s World War II incarceration camp worry about a proposed wind farm near site.” The gnats are back, swarming near my face. But I, Lindsey Wasson, am a visitor and can leave whenever I want. My grandfather couldn’t. The expanse of sagebrush and […]