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San Antonio familyās story, relic to be displayed at Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Read full article: San Antonio familyās story, relic to be displayed at Smithsonian National Museum of American HistoryA rare 1932 Ford Model B is headed to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The story of the family that o is also part of the reason the vehicle tells a deeper story.
2nd Jacob Lawrence painting missing for 6 decades located
Read full article: 2nd Jacob Lawrence painting missing for 6 decades locatedThe locations of three other missing panels remain unknown. (The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Peabody Essex Museum via AP)SALEM, Mass. The Salem-based Peabody Essex Museum organized the exhibit. AdThe 12-inch-by-16-inch (30.5-centimeter-by-40.5-centimeter) panel was found in a New York City apartment, like another painting in the series, panel 16, that was rediscovered in a different home in October. The owner, who wants to remain anonymous, inherited the panel 28 from family, who ā like the figures depicted ā were immigrants.
Racial profiling by French police challenged in class action
Read full article: Racial profiling by French police challenged in class actionThe issue of racial profiling has festered for years. Prime Minister Jean Castex and Franceās interior and justice ministers were served formal legal notice of the demands in a 145-page document including witness accounts, studies, and demands to ensure there's no racial profiling in police checks. "No, police are not discriminating and no, the police don't do racial profiling,ā Gaudon added. Video of a recent incident posted online drew a response from President Emmanuel Macron, who called racial profiling āunbearable.āPolice representatives say officers themselves feel under attack when they show up in suburban housing projects. ___Follow all AP stories about racial profiling at https://apnews.com/Racialinjustice.
Iran strikes defiant tone at UN under crushing US sanctions
Read full article: Iran strikes defiant tone at UN under crushing US sanctionsThe sanctions effectively bar Iran from selling its oil globally. āThe United States can impose neither negotiations nor war on us,ā Rouhani said, adding: āLife is hard under sanctions. Because Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement, few U.N. member states believe the U.S. has the legal standing to restore the sanctions. Iran has steadily broken restrictions on the amount of uranium it can enrich in order to pressure countries to do more. It was his last speech to the U.N. assembly as president of Iran.
How and when to report racism at work
Read full article: How and when to report racism at workMany companies are committed to confronting racism in the workplace, however, racial discrimination still happens. 25 percent of all complaints filed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the past 10 years have come from Black American employees alleging racial discrimination. Racism at work can impact a personās performance, promotions, and paycheck. Specialist in Employment Law, Bertha Burruezo, said when experiencing racism at work, gathering evidence is key. First, identify a co-worker who does work similar to you, is racially different, and compare how they are treated at work.
IOC apologizes, deletes tweet about 1936 Berlin Olympics
Read full article: IOC apologizes, deletes tweet about 1936 Berlin OlympicsGENEVA The IOC apologized on Friday and deleted a Twitter message which some saw as celebrating Nazi Germanys hosting of the 1936 Olympics. We apologize to those who feel offended by the film of the Olympic Games Berlin 1936, the IOC wrote on Friday. The official museum at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp added its reply to the IOC in the message thread on Friday. Owens taught a resounding lesson to the Nazi regime, shattering its despicable fascist claims of racial superiority, the IOC wrote on Friday. Brundage, the IOC president for 20 years until 1972, has long been criticized for racist views and being a Nazi sympathizer at the Berlin Olympics where he led the United States team.