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Caitlin Hu, Etant Dupain and Paula Newton, edited by Eliza Anyangwe and Eliza Mackintosh,CNN. (Summarized) Dajabón, DR, and Les Cayes, Haiti  Lina found out she was pregnant with twins, First she felt…

Cecilia, I'm down on my kneesI'm begging you please to come homeCome on home.*The amazing Celia Fiennes was born in 1662, two miles from Stonehenge, in Newton Toney, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Celia and my…

Rehan Staton, a former Maryland sanitation worker, is graduating from Harvard Law School. “I got lucky, but I made the most of my luck.” I just happened to be around people…

From my uncle's memoir, American Inscape Her earliest memories included seeing an old Jew in the shtetl burst through their door with blood gushing down him as he fell squealing…

Retired Army Col. Paris Davis, 83, stood in the East Room of the White House last week as President Joe Biden draped the Medal of Honor around his neck, 58 years after…

While reading about Marian Croak, I discovered Patricia Era Bath (1942 –2019), an American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic who invented an improved device for laser cataract surgery, the Laserphaco Probe. Firsts:…

I don’t know if it was The View or CBS Sunday Morning but between the two I learned about a woman I had never heard about before: Marian Rogers Croak. Marian Croak Marian…