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Book cover image courtesy of Random House Publishing Group."Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love" by the late Reverend James Lawson Jr. and co-author Emily Yellin is an important addition to the literature of the American Civil Rights Movement. The book will be released February 17, with a launch event at the New York Public Library and local events at the National Civil Rights Museum at 6 p.m. on February 20, and at noon on February 22 at Centenary United Methodist Church—Reverend Lawson’s church—at 584 E. McLemore Ave. -
Christopher Blank WKNO-FMHecklers hit Mayor Paul Young on immigration this week, while lawmakers throw cold water on the announcement of a new MSCS superintendent.
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The City of Memphis has set a goal of building and renovating 10,000 homes by 2030.
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The crew will spend the next eight months conducting experiments to prepare for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.
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With the win, Stolz joins Eric Heiden as the only skaters to take gold in both the 500 and 1,000 at the same Olympics. -
The U.S. military says the strikes were carried out in retaliation of the December ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter.
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In a joint statement, the foreign ministries of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands say Navalny was poisoned by Russia with a lethal toxin derived from the skin of poison dart frogs.
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Christopher Blank WKNO-FMHecklers hit Mayor Paul Young on immigration this week, while lawmakers throw cold water on the announcement of a new MSCS superintendent.
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- It's a kids' — and robots' — world in Oscar-nominated animated film 'Arco'
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Border czar Tom Homan announced that the Trump administration will end the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. And, DHS funding is set to expire after lawmakers failed to advance a spending bill. -
The four are set to dock with the space station on Saturday, returning the orbital lab to its full complement of seven. NASA's last mission, Crew-11, left a month early due to an ill crew member. -
Emerald Fennell's extravagant adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic cares little for subtlety. Ultimately, this love affair is more photogenic than it is deeply moving. -
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A bipartisan effort in Congress to restrain immigration enforcement tactics is flailing despite a Friday deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The pattern is increasingly familiar. -
The surge of federal agents in Minnesota is coming to an end, DHS expected to shut down as funding deadline approaches, EPA will stop regulating greenhouse gases.
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World leaders will meet at the Munich Security Conference Friday to discuss the future of Europe's security.
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The Trump administration says it is ending its immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota that sparked weeks of protests, led to thousands of arrests and the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens.
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Members of Germany's far-right AfD Party were banned from attending the Munich Security Conference. On Friday, they'll attend for the first time in years.
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For StoryCorps, a husband and wife, who are both more than 100 years old, talk about how they met and fell in love.
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Kathy Ruemmler, a former White House counsel to President Obama, says she will resign from Goldman Sachs after emails between her and Jeffrey Epstein showed a close relationship between the pair.
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