If this is a simple story, there are just two camps, their views boiled down to recognizable slogans. There’s the “See something, say something” camp. They believe violent crime witnesses have a moral ...

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UJA Project Witness is a program that paired 24 teenagers from Long Island with eight Holocaust survivors. They met every other Thursday at the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center in Greenvale during ...

An old elm tree that met its end two years ago at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline might have been headed for the chipper, but two faculty members at Rhode Island School ...

More than 240 years ago, in Charleston, South Carolina, a 13-year-old African American boy named Friday Trueheart was separated from his mother Dinah, when their enslaver, the Rev. Oliver Hart, came ...

Retired Col. Greg Lowe, retired Col. Mick Devine, his son, Sean, and Carol Mays Dillard sat in the Owsley Library at Western Kentucky University’s Augenstein Alumni Center on Thursday talking about ...

The history of slavery has deep roots in New England, starting in the 1600s and peaking around the time of the Revolutionary War. But for centuries, stories of Northern slavery were not easy to find.

When it was Werner Reich’s turn to take the skein of white yarn, wrap some around his hand and share something thoughtful, he made a confession. “Frankly speaking, when I started in this program, I ...