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1 day ago · Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
4 days ago · Former U.S. Sen. Hiram Leong Fong — lawyer, entrepreneur, tycoon and statesman under five American presidents from Eisenhower to Ford — died early yesterday after an epic life rich in both fortune and drama. He was 97.
3 days ago · A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers.
3 days ago · Free Black Americans posing along a canal in Richmond, Virginia, April 1865. During the period of slavery, free Black Americans made up about one-tenth of the entire African American population. In 1860 there were almost 500,000 free African Americans—half in the South and half in the North.
3 days ago · United States Senate, one of the two houses of the legislature (Congress) of the United States, established in 1789 under the Constitution. The six-year terms of about one-third of the Senate membership expire every two years, earning the chamber the nickname ‘the house that never dies.’.
3 days ago · Deaths. Almost 200,000 deaths due to institutional racism from 1945 through 1951 [1] [note 1] 4,400 [3] killed in lynchings and other acts of racial violence (1877-1950), up to at least 10,000 unjust deaths from 1866 to 1951 according to We Charge Genocide [4] Victims.
6 days ago · WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden, facing pressure from within his own party to abandon his reelection campaign, is set to meet Wednesday with the executive council of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest...
