2015/5/13-–Residents in the small Arkansas tourist town Eureka Springs voted Tuesday to uphold an ordinance to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, rejecting an argument by opponents that the measure could harm tourism and force churches to …..
2015/5/13-Talk to some of the folks who lived through the bombing of 62nd and Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia 30 years ago, and you’ll notice that they refer to the event by its full date. May 13, 1985. That’s how …..
Editors’ note: On Tuesday, May 12, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is unveiling his “Progressive Agenda to Combat Income Inequality,” a 13-point plan framed as the political left’s answer to Republicans’ 1994 “Contract With America,” in a speech outside …..
2015/05/12 – May 12, 1898: Louisiana adopted a new constitution, which incorporated a “grandfather clause” into voting requirements. It stated that a person may only vote if their father or grandfather was eligible to vote on or before January 1, 1867, …..
A group that wants to kick Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill and replace him with a woman has, after months of collecting votes, chosen a successor: Harriet Tubman. 2015/5/12-Tubman, an abolitionist who is remembered most for her role as a conductor in the …..
