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1929 interview with a 92-year-old man offers a remarkable glimpse into a bygone era

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In 1929, Galusha Marion Cole was interviewed in Pasadena, California, and claimed to be 103 years old at the time. Making it past the century mark was a very rare feat back then. It's even more remarkable when you consider he lived through the Civil War, the deadliest conflict in American history.

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Lessons we should have learned from the liberation of Auschwitz and other Nazi camps

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From 1940 to 1945, an estimated 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz, the largest complex of Nazi concentration camps. More than four out of five of those people—at least 1.1 million people—were murdered there.

On January 27, 1945, Soviet forces liberated the final prisoners from these camps—7,000 people, most of whom were sick or dying. Those of us with a decent public education are familiar with at least a few names of Nazi extermination facilities—Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen—but these are merely a few of the thousands (yes, thousands) of concentration camps, sub camps, and ghettos spread across Europe where Jews and other targets of Hitler's regime were persecuted, tortured, and killed by the millions.

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It's Black Breastfeeding Week. Wondering why? One gut-punching poem says it all.

"I wish I dried up..."

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It's Black Breastfeeding Week, a week set aside in the U.S. to celebrate and encourage black breastfeeding parents.

Some may wonder why such a week is necessary. After all, that's a pretty narrow niche, isn't it? Aren't black moms included in all breastfeeding awareness and education campaigns? Is there something special about black breastfeeding?

The answer is yes, there is something unique about black breastfeeding. Several somethings, actually. But one reason Black Breastfeeding Week exists is summed up in a gut-wrenching poem by feminist author Hess Love.

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