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W. E. B. Du Bois. For other people with similar names, see William DuBois. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( / djuːˈbɔɪs / dew-BOYSS; [1] [2] February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist . Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a ...
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755, or 1757 [a] – July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency . Born out of wedlock in Charlestown, Nevis, Hamilton was orphaned as a child and taken in by a prosperous ...
Torchy’s Tacos. The buzz: Torchy's started as a food truck in Austin, and while Food & Wine cautions that "they're not the best tacos in Texas," the irreverent, upscale feel has allowed the ...
Nikola Jokić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Јокић, pronounced [nǐkola jôkitɕ] ⓘ; born February 19, 1995) is a Serbian professional basketball player who is a center for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed " the Joker ", he is regarded as one of the greatest players and centers of all time, [1 ...
A U.S. Navy ship and several Army vessels involved in an American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip are offshore of the enclave and building out a floating platform for the ...
April 26, 2024 at 4:43 PM. The new Netflix series “Ripley,” based on the first of author Patricia Highsmith’s five books about Tom Ripley (1955’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley”), is a ...
Premise. Set in Entrevías, the poorest neighborhood in Madrid, the series follows Tirso Abantos, a former military man running a hardware store, whose monotonous daily routine is shaken when his unruly and rebellious adopted teenaged granddaughter Irene, of Vietnamese origin, along with her Colombian-immigrant boyfriend Nelson, agree to sell heroin from drug dealer Sandro.
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona met with teachers and borrowers in New York City on Monday to mark the announcement of a newly proposed student debt relief plan that could benefit more ...