Gabrielle Emanuel
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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While the Freedom Rides of 1961 are an honored part of the Civil Rights movement, the response of Southern racists is less well-known. The Reverse Freedom Rides sent scores of African Americans north.
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The ban, the most extreme measure to date, comes as more than 500 people nationwide have contracted vaping-related illnesses — at least nine people have died.
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Fifteen years ago, Hillary and Julie Goodridge married hours after Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex marriage. But less than five years later, they were getting divorced.
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Same-sex marriage seemed impossible until the first couples were married in Massachusetts 15 years ago this week. Now it is the law of the land, but not everyone wants it to stay that way.
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A Massachusetts state judge and a former court officer are charged with helping a man evade deportation. Prosecutors say they let the man slip out of a courtroom when an ICE agent was waiting for him.
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The former co-owner of a pharmaceutical firm was sentenced to 9 years in prison for his role in a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis. The disease was spread by injections of contaminated medicine.
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As a response to immigration enforcement, religious communities are preparing to shelter people at risk of deportation. They're drawing on the ancient tradition of offering sanctuary for refugees.
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Scientists are exploring how human brains learn to read — and discovering new ways that brains with dyslexia can learn to cope.
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Credit scores. Car loans. Mortgages. It's stuff we all need to know. Yet not all financial education classes help us make better financial decisions. But some do.
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Julius Rosenwald built nearly 5,000 schools for black children across the south. That was a century ago. But some economists thinks those schools may hold important lessons for today.