"The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place."
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"As America embarks on four years of Civil War commemorations, it revives an unsettling debate that lingers 150 years after the conflict: how to view the role of African Americans in the Confederacy. It arose last year when a Virginia textbook was yanked over protests that it inaccurately claimed thousands of blacks served as Confederate soldiers. More recently, a North Carolina community turned down an effort to erect a monument to 10 black men who served the Southern army and later collected Confederate pensions. Confederate law prohibited slaves from serving as soldiers until March 1865, when it was changed in a last-gasp effort to strengthen troop numbers."
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"On the web site where it sells the report, www.medicalmarijuanamarkets.com, the American Cannabis Research Institute and DealFlow Media are listed as sponsors."
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"On the web site where it sells the report, www.medicalmarijuanamarkets.com, the American Cannabis Research Institute and DealFlow Media are listed as sponsors."
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"Of all the unfamiliar products in a Chinese supermarket, one of the most shocking to American visitors is a toothpaste featuring the logo of a minstrel singer in a top hat, flashing a white smile. Even more shocking: the paste, known as Darlie in English and as Black People Toothpaste in Chinese, is a product of the Hawley & Hazel Group, a Hong Kong–based company established in 1933, which is now owned in part by the Colgate-Palmolive Co."
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"Of all the unfamiliar products in a Chinese supermarket, one of the most shocking to American visitors is a toothpaste featuring the logo of a minstrel singer in a top hat, flashing a white smile. Even more shocking: the paste, known as Darlie in English and as Black People Toothpaste in Chinese, is a product of the Hawley & Hazel Group, a Hong Kong–based company established in 1933, which is now owned in part by the Colgate-Palmolive Co."
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infodivaMLIS on I remember hearing about this when I worked at a coffee shop but always thought it was an urban legend. Kopi Luwak is real. From Dung to Coffee Brew With No Aftertaste - NYTimes.com - http://www.reddit.com/r...
infodivaMLIS on I remember hearing about this when I worked at a coffee shop but always thought it was an urban legend. Kopi Luwak is real. From Dung to Coffee Brew With No Aftertaste - NYTimes.com - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"The number of mobile subscriptions in the world is expected to pass five billion this year, according to the International Telecommunication Union, an intergovernmental organization. That would mean more human beings today have access to a cellphone than the United Nations says have access to a clean toilet."
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"The number of mobile subscriptions in the world is expected to pass five billion this year, according to the International Telecommunication Union, an intergovernmental organization. That would mean more human beings today have access to a cellphone than the United Nations says have access to a clean toilet."
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