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The big picture

Doing something, continuing to root out inequality and injustice where we encounter it, is the greatest tribute we can pay to Martin Luther King Jr.

We are a team of bioarchaeologists, archaeologists and forensic anthropologists who, with our colleagues, recently discovered the earliest evidence of cremation.

The Federal Reserve has quietly delivered nearly half a trillion dollars to Wall Street with few strings attached over the past few months. These cash infusions could signal instability in the broader financial sector.

How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a long-standing colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?

In 2025, Black America needed about 1.8 million more people working to have the same employment rates (employment-to-population ratios) as White America

At the Light of Day WinterFest concert at The Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, Jan. 17, Bruce Springsteen dedicated it to Renee Nicole Good and criticized ICE’s “Gestapo tactics.

Using and abusing AI

Venezuelans are not a political monolith. People in Venezuela can oppose the government, but still reject US intervention. They can be angry at corruption or mistakes the government has done, but still remember foreign interventions and meddling.

Today Trump announced 10% tariffs against 8 European countries that oppose his takeover of Greenland.