Stories you might have missed in the last week
since they are not being widely reported.
Q&A: Stewart Battles Book Bans at PRH
In September 2024, during Banned Books Week, Penguin Random House (PRH) expanded its Intellectual Freedom Taskforce, a group dedicated to protecting the freedom to read, by naming Rosie Stewart senior…
Yuri Kochiyama
an American civil rights activist
Frieda Belinfante
When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940, 36-year-old conductor Frieda Belinfante disbanded her orchestra and dedicated herself to helping others. She forged IDs to save Jews from deportation and…
Worcester, Mass
Sanctuary City
Data Science
data screening
Tesla’s Flagship store
gets a makeover
The Seattle General Strike
a five-day general work stoppage by 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington from February 6 to 11, 1919.
Solidarity in Palestine
Sam Stein and Andrej X
March against ICE
in Green Bay