Melissa Hellmann
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- Aug 1, 2026
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Why generations swear by hot caldo â âa Mexican Gatoradeâ â in summer (opens the original)
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Across Latin American households in the US, the steaming broth nourishes while keeping family traditions alive When Patty Rodriguez hears the word caldo now, she thinks fondly of home. But as a child growing up in southern California, she despised eating the piping-hot soup-like meal during the summers. Rodriguez would swirl around the chunks of fish with her spoon and imagine that she was performing a magic trick where the dish disappeared. She would roll her eyes as she asked her family why th
New York offers college admission for residents unenrolled from Howard University (opens the original)
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Historically Black institution withdrew more than 500 first-year students for missed tuition payments New York residents who were unenrolled from Washington DC’s Howard University have been offered a reprieve after the historically Black institution withdrew more than 500 first-year students for missed tuition payments in late July. On 27 July, Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor, announced that affected New Yorkers can seek admission at the City University of New York (Cuny) and the State Univers
The women running death salons for people of color to process grief: âIt allows for freedomâ (opens the original)
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Death salons are spaces that allow free-flowing conversations about mortality and are becoming more popular around the country In a small cream-colored room at a cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nefertiti Moor sat at the head of a semicircle. Dressed in black with her long hair in locs, she delivered instructions for the evening discussion. âItâs not death counseling or a debate,â said Moor. She invited the two women in attendance to talk freely about their cultural associations wit
âA first step to fascismâ: critics denounce Trump administration replacing slavery exhibit at George Washingtonâs âhome (opens the original)
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Replacement of panels with version thatâs sympathetic to enslavers comes amid effort by Trump to dismantle diversity initiatives Critics say the Trump administration acted under the âcover of darknessâ to replace an exhibit exploring the lives of nine enslaved people who lived at George Washingtonâs âPhiladelphia home with a version that is overly sympathetic to enslavers and that whitewashes the countryâs origins. The installation of new information panels followed a six-month fight
âTrue Patriotsâ: a traveling play honors enslaved Africansâ role in the American revolution (opens the original)
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Daâ Gullah American Revolutionary Experience retells the revolutionary war from the perspective of the formerly enslaved A beam of white light illuminated actor Anita Singleton-Pratherâs face. âWar was on the way,â she said, addressing the audience. Portraying a formerly enslaved African in heaven, Singleton-Prather wore a white dress and held a large wooden staff. âFolks was asking us, what side we was going to fight: red or blue?â she said, referring to the Continental Armyâs blu
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