Coretta Scott King by Whitney Halperin When Martin Luther King died on April 4, 1968, did his death just suddenly became a national holiday? No, people had to fight to make it a holiday. But did this conflict stop it from being made a holiday, acknowledged in over a hundred countries and celebrated in the […]
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Grandma Mary
Grandma Mary by Lauren Simon Tired, after a night spent at my friends, I pulled the headphones off my head and slid out of the back of the car. I’ll admit, I was somewhat reluctant to spend my day off up at a small condominium in Northern Mass. Honestly, I would much rather be back […]
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Walter Brundl by Ben Verdi Six Million. That is the number of people killed in the holocaust. During a twelve year period beginning in 1933, a man named Adolph Hitler started a war which in the end led to the persecution of many people: Jews, Socialists, Labor workers, Handicapped people, anyone who Hitler saw as […]
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