In a story about the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, The Washington Post interviewed Professor Susannah Heschel on how recent events commemorating the 1963 march have evoked memories of the relations between African Americans and Jews.
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In an opinion piece published by the Valley News, Professor Randall Balmer says the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington celebrates “the high-water mark of the civil rights movement” while pointing out how much remains to be done.
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Pope Francis drew huge crowds during his recent visit to Brazil, and then made headlines for saying he had no right to judge homosexuals, a remark he made during an 80-minute press conference aboard the flight back to Rome.
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It was while researching stories about the Buddha literally giving away his body parts to humans in need that Reiko Ohnuma began to think about motherhood.
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Susannah Heschel and Cleopatra Mathis are among 175 scholars in the United States and Canada who have been awarded 2013 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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