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There are few memorials for Chicagoans who died from heat in 1995. But there are remnants.
The closest thing we have to a memorial for people who died from the heat is not even in Chicago. It’s the headstone of the ...
Texas Man’s Fight to Move a Lynching Marker Sparks New Battle for Truth
As Delbert Jackson turned right onto the clean, sandy-paved stretch of Martin Luther King Drive, his chin lifted with quiet ...
Ukrainians grapple with how to memorialize a war still being fought
The following is part of a series of reports by the Kyiv Independent about the memorialization of Ukraine’s fallen soldiers and civilians. Every nation-defining event in Ukraine's nearly 35 years of ...
It's been 10 years since Confederate battle flag came down in SC, but 'hard work was left undone'
In response to the Mother Emanual AME shooting in Charleston, SC, lawmakers and protestors rallied to bring down the ...