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Anne Spencer was born in 1882. A poet and civil rights activist, she was part of what would come to be called the Negro Renaissance in the 1920s in Lynchburg.
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The House Jan. 6 committee began laying out its case that former president Donald Trump was behind an organized effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election Thursday night in prime time.
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A new poll finds that congressional Democratic candidates are in a statistical dead heat (46 percent) with Republicans (45 percent) in Virginia.
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin declared that he wants Russia weakened. Of course he meant militarily weakened. Still, his words summoned an echo of Versailles in 1919.
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Acquiring lithium comes at an enormous cost. As with most metals, its mining is destructive.
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Since Trump rose to power in 2016, my concerns about the future of America have only been gravely compounded.
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It is good at times to conduct a reality check on what this country supposedly stands for, and what it actually does.
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“White supremacy has no place in America,” President Biden said Tuesday in Buffalo. Except that it does, and it’s what America was founded on.
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Some people are able to liberate the creation story from its theological misogyny, but for most believers (especially the male ones), it’s pretty clear.
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The question that we’ve needed to ask for months, if not years, smacked us in the face today again: what do Senate Democrats get out of having Joe Manchin in their caucus?
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