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Category: Leo Frank
What’s going on in and around Newmarket this weekend – NewmarketToday.ca
This weekend, honour our veterans at the Remembrance Day parade and service, shop at local harvest markets, enjoy 'girls day out' at the National Women's Show, and Ladies Night with '90s trivia supporting kids with cancer Wavestage TheatreCompany's 26th season musical production of Parade, Nov. 9 to 12:Paradetells the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man in Atlanta wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of his 13-year-old employee in 1913. Because the trial was replete with faulty testimony and lacked any clear evidence, Georgias governor eventually commuted his sentence from death to life imprisonment
The worst eruption of antisemitism in American history – JNS.org
(October 31, 2023 / JNS) The United States is experiencing the most explosive and dangerous eruption of antisemitism in its 250-year history. Indeed, it is absolutely unprecedented in American life
Civil Rights Journey With Etgar 36 | JewishBoston – jewishboston.com
This February, travel down south with teens and peers from the Greater Boston community on a civil rights trip led by Etgar 36! Never miss the best stories and events for families, children and teens! Get JewishBoston Plus Kids. Learn about the struggles of African Americans to gain equality in the 1950s and 60s as well as discover how Jews were involved in the civil rights struggle. The trip will include visits to Atlanta, Montgomery, Selma and Birmingham
Daniel Boorstin Against the Barbarians – The Imaginative Conservative
Yet more than any other consensus historian, Daniel Boorstin counter-attacked radical New Left critiques. He was unabashedly patriotic, and his books are works of wonderment and curiosity about America, its land, and its people. In 1994, on the PBS program Think Tank, Ben Wattenberg hosted a debate on the topic Who Owns History
Daniel Boorstin Against the Barbarians – The Imaginative Conservative
Yet more than any other consensus historian, Daniel Boorstin counter-attacked radical New Left critiques. He was unabashedly patriotic, and his books are works of wonderment and curiosity about America, its land, and its people.
Elon Musk and the fight to X out hate speech – Communist Party USA
At the end of August, 38-year-old presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy appeared on CNN and was confronted with remarks he made regarding Ayanna Pressley, the first Black woman elected to represent Massachusetts in Congress. In response to her critique of his campaign one that insists on a colorblind meritocracy Ramaswamy said at an event in Iowa that her words are the words of the modern grand wizards of the modern KKK. CNNs Dana Bash pressed him during the interview on these comments, pointing out that the KKK has waged violent terror for over a century
Elon Musk and the fight to X out hate speech – Communist Party USA
At the end of August, 38-year-old presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy appeared on CNN and was confronted with remarks he made regarding Ayanna Pressley, the first Black woman elected to represent Massachusetts in Congress. In response to her critique of his campaign one that insists on a colorblind meritocracy Ramaswamy said at an event in Iowa that her words are the words of the modern grand wizards of the modern KKK.
Fighting Antisemitism: How ADL Monitored and Responded to GDL – ADL
To understand how ADL responds when organized hate comes to town, lets take you to Georgia earlier this year. Thats when at least 11 individuals affiliated with the Goyim Defense League (GDL), a loose network of people who share antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ and white supremacist thinking, set out on a Name the Nose Tour their words to antagonize Jewish communities in the Peach State.
‘Popularizing the Past’ by Nick Witham review – History Today
Historian and Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin with actress Lillian Gish, Senator Barry Goldwater, and actors Charles Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. at the opening of theMary Pickford Theater, 1983.Library of Congress