Florida Today History is not about exceptionalism. It is about confronting the past to help inform the present. Individuals who only wish to espouse an exceptionalism narrative are ignoring a fundamental truth that must be shared: There are always victims as well as victors, and decisions have consequences. History also […]
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On the latest edition of the All Things Bama Podcast, host Tyler Martin is joined by former University of Alabama wide receiver Marquis Maze as the two dive into his career, winning two national championships, and what he expects from the team in 2020. Maze offers up a story about […]
Volunteers are accusing the National Trust of excluding deprived and minority ethnic schoolchildren from enjoying nature and visiting its properties with the planned sacking of the charity’s education officers. The number of protests and petitions are growing over the trust’s controversial “reset” involving the proposed loss of 1,200 jobs, including […]
Former first lady Michelle Obama delivered the keynote speech for the first night of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, highlighting former Vice President Joe Biden’s experience and empathy for others. “I know Joe. He is a profoundly decent man guided by faith. He was a terrific vice president,” Obama said. […]
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Former Vice President Joe Biden The Democratic National Convention is playing it safe this time around. Amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the gathering took shape unlike any in the past: It is now centered around virtual programming each night from, 9-11 ET, rather than […]
After Beijing enacted a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong, the city’s leader tried to allay fears of a broad crackdown on dissent by promising the measure would affect only a very small minority of people. But throughout July, the first full month under the new legislation, the measure […]
Educators gathered Monday in demonstrations across the country addressing twin concerns of a safe and equitable school environment amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide reckoning around racial justice after the killing of George Floyd. The demonstrations, held in dozens of cities, including Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, were […]
The National Trust is a charity that looks after places of historic interest and natural beauty The UK’s National Trust is among more than 80 organisations that have confirmed data breaches resulting from an attack on cloud computing provider Blackbaud. Others involved include homeless charities The Wallich and Crisis, the […]
The Republican National Convention will no longer hold events in Jacksonville, Fla., President Trump said Thursday, citing a coronavirus “flare-up” in the city. “I looked at my team and I said the timing for this event is not right,” he said Thursday during a White House coronavirus briefing. “With what’s […]
It’s being called a “tweet-tastrophe.” The Twitter accounts of some of the world’s biggest names were hacked Wednesday in a bitcoin scam. The FBI is investigating, and the Senate Intelligence Committee asked for a briefing. “Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened,” Jack Dorsey, the company’s […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the organization which presents the National Book Awards is joining the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation since 2016, has been named senior vice president of the Knopf imprints Pantheon and Schocken Books. “I love books, […]
(Bloomberg) — U.S. virus cases rose to 3.27 million with almost 56,000 new infections, less than the one-week average daily increase. Even so, Florida reported more than 15,000 cases, the biggest daily increase of any state since the coronavirus pandemic began. Florida’s count exceeded records in New York, California and […]
When the kids on the Winston Churchill Middle School Science Bowl team got started in October, a global pandemic wasn’t on the radar. Neither was a top spot in the national Science Bowl competition. Churchill’s team consisted of eighth-graders Elyas Nuh, Harish Premkumar, Benjamin Wang and Sky Yip, and seventh-grader […]