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Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette This is your morning Open Thread. Pour your favorite beverage and review the past and comment on the future. Find the past "On This Day in History" here. April 16 is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap...

Fireworks light up the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., July 4, 2014. | Paul Morigi via Getty Images If you're not working on July 3, thank your company. But government policy may have played a role in that as well, even if you aren't a federal...

Memphians embarked on their struggle for civil rights long before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to town. In the late 1800s, abolitionist Ida B. Wells, the daughter of slaves, began an anti-lynching crusade in the basement of Beale Street’s First Baptist...

Letter from a Birmingham Jail In his famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr.  explained justice in a way his civil rights movement successors don’t seem to comprehend. 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen...

“Full truth of the assassination revealed and adjudicated in a court of law.” In 1999 a US court found that the United States government was directly involved in the murder of the most significant American black public figure of the twentieth century...