“Ohio”
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Denali: the kind of symbolic gesture we’ve needed so that maybe now we can stop being dicks
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When I read the news that the White House would change the name of North America’s highest peak, I was elated. And thankful. Mt. McKinley will now be Denali. Outstanding! The article was posted under the headline on Yahoo!’s frontpage: Obama renames North America’s highest peak The president’s action is a symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives on the…
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Four Dead in Ohio
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1 min read
“Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Kent state was nearly a decade before I was born, but ever since I was in college, I found a deep attachment to this moment. It could be any campus, and really was: Kent State (May 4, 1970), its twin event at Jackson State (May 15, 1970), and the…