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“5_Kravtsov_How King Pea hid in his bunker.tif” The Ukrainian Museum, NY Works by Nikita Kravtsov from the exhibition “The War of the Mushrooms” at The Ukrainian Museum. Credit: (C) Nikita Kravtsov. Nikita Kravtsov/Courtesy of the Ukrainian Museum

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U.S. museums celebrate Ukrainian culture

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U.S. companies mobilize to support Ukraine

The late bell hooks wrote over 36 books about intersectional feminism, Black justice and class distinctions. (© Monica Almeida/The New York Times/Redux)

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Black women transform contemporary literature

Mahkhyieah Lee, 5, dances at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House in April 2021. (© Jacquelyn Martin/AP Images)

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How Black History Month came to be

Terence A. Todman became one of the most senior Black members of the Foreign Service during his four decades in diplomacy. (© Frank Johnston/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

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Honoring an American trailblazer for diversity

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U.S. memorials honor civil rights hero Rosa Parks

President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26, 1990, at the White House. Joining him are Evan Kemp, of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission; the Reverend Harold Wilke; Sandra Parrino, of the National Council on Disability; and Justin Dart, of the President’s

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This 1990 disabilities law ushered in a new era (July 20)

People gather outside Iran embassy in France on June 13, 2019 to support Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and demand her release. - Sotoudeh has been sentenced to a total of 33 years in prison over a case with seven charges, but she is to only serve the longest sentence, 12 years imposed for "encouraging corruption and debauchery". She has also been convicted of espionage. Sotoudeh has also been sentenced to a total of 148 lashes for appearing in court without the hijab Islamic head covering and for another offence. (Photo by FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP) (Photo credit should read FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP via Getty Images)

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Iran’s regime continues persecution of human rights defenders (July 20)

WASHINGTON D.C. – MARCH 17: Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) is photographed in his offices in the Canon House office building on March 17, 2009 in Washington, D.C. The former Big Six leader of the civil rights movement was the architect and keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in

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From civil rights activist to member of Congress: Remembering John Lewis (July 20)

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