
This ‘daughter of the Deep South’ is fighting for Black voting rights through storytelling
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — On the morning the U.S. Supreme Court all but finished gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Anneshia Hardy met with funders about investing in the Deep South in this majority-Black city, where physical reminders of the country’s brutal history of enslaveme
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UN-designated on the birthday of Anton Janša, a Slovenian beekeeper. Pollinators are responsible for a third of global food production — bees punch well above their weight.
National Strawberry Day
The garden strawberry is a hybrid first bred in Brittany, France in the 1750s by crossing a Chilean variety with a North American one. The resulting fruit spread across Europe and eventually produced the modern commercial strawberry. The US now grows 1.4 billion pounds per year, 90% of it in California.