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The US in brief: Showing seniors the door

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Contributor: We celebrate civil rights heroes only after they stop making us uncomfortable

Black History Month should prompt more than commemoration. It should force us to ask why the figures we now hold up as icons ...
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Review: Oakland Theater Project's ‘Mountaintop' a riveting look at MLK Jr.'s final night

While the end of Oakland Theater Project's production of "The Mountaintop"- Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall’s imagining of the last night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life - is no ...