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Happy 100th birthday, Rosa Parks!

By Katie | Published: February 4, 2013

TweetToday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks. On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, leading to a a 13-month boycott of the Montgomery bus system that would help spark the civil rights movement. Today, the U.S. Postal [...]

The lessons we must learn from the Giffords shooting

By Katie | Published: January 24, 2012

TweetAs Eesha pointed out yesterday, Representative Gabby Giffords announced that she would step down in a moving video. This, of course, was just over a year after being shot, along with 11 others, six of whom died, by a man should never have had access to a gun. It was also nearly two years after [...]