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A memorial in Yiddish, Italian and English tells the stories of Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims − testament not only to tragedy but to immigrant women's fight to remake labor laws

The 10-story Brown Building, site of one of the deadliest workplace disasters in United States history, stands one block east of Washington Square Park in New York City. Despite three bronze plaques noting its significance, it has long been easy to pass by without further thought.

The Conversation

October babies: Birthdays of famous people born in October

October, the 10th month of the year, has witnessed the birth of several great personalities in the past. Leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche were born in October.

The Times of India

UN Human Rights Council Calls for Punishing Blasphemy (In This Instance, Quran Burning)

Jacob Mchangama (of Justitia, and now a Research Professor at Vanderbilt) has a detailed item about it; an excerpt: In 1950, Eleanor Roosevelt, serving as the first Chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, was involved in a bitter dispute about the limits of free speech. Stalin's Soviet…

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Joe Biden calls Rishi Sunak ‘president’ by mistake on PM’s first White House visit

The Prime Minister laughed awkwardly at the exchange

Evening Standard

Joe Biden accidentally calls UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ‘Mr President’

‘Well, Mr President ... I just demoted you, Mr Prime Minister,’ president says

The Independent UK

Joe Biden tells Rishi Sunak US has 'no closer ally' than UK - as PM cracks Churchill gag

The Prime Minister and the US President sat down for talks - where they joked and laughed - in the White House's Oval Office ahead of a formal press conference

Daily Mirror

Leaders reflect on Churchill’s early hours visits to Roosevelt

Rishi Sunak vowed not to bother Joe Biden in the way the UK’s wartime leader had pestered the then US president.

The Independent UK

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What to stream this week: Foo Fighters, 'The Idol,' LeBron James and 'American Gladiators' doc

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Foo Fighters and some lost songs by the late Kenny Rogers, a new gritty HBO series from “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson called “The Idol” starring Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd

The Independent UK

'Got polio?' messaging underscores a vaccine campaign's success but creates false sense of security as memories of the disease fade in US

“Got Polio? Me neither. Thanks, Science.”

The Conversation

Women's Day 2023: International Women's Day slogans, quotes, sayings and phrases

Not just one day but all days must belong to women. March 8th marks the International Women’s Day. The day began to be celebrated when 15,000 women marched through New York City calling for shorter hours, higher pay, and the opportunity to vote in 1908. A year later, the first…

The Times of India

Uniting America review: how FDR and the GOP beat fascism home and away

Charles Lindbergh casts a shadow over Peter Shinkle’s new book, which ends with a warning about Trump and his party

The Guardian - US

Review: Ken Burns issues a chilling warning with ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’

“The U.S. and the Holocaust,” the latest big PBS documentary from Ken Burns, is a different sort of film for him in that — unlike “Baseball” or “Jazz” or “Benjamin Franklin” — it seems very much a response to current events, made not just as a commemoration but as a…

Los Angeles Times

Who gets to tell the story of a historic civil rights site?

A fight is brewing in Tennessee over a legendary civil rights and labor organizing center whose alumni and supporters include Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt

The Independent UK

Iriana also plays roles: Indonesia's first lady diplomacy complements Jokowi's effort as G20 president

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo attracted global attention when he paid a visit to Ukraine and Russia last month. But fewer observers and public noticed that his wife, First Lady Iriana Widodo, also accompanied him on the trip – including to Kyiv, the city currently deemed as the world’s most…

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Daily Mirror

Actress Gillian Anderson hopes new TV roles will see her 'play some psychopaths'

Gillian Anderson talks about her life and career, from being a rebellious teenager taking drugs, to roles in cult hit the X Files and more recently in Sex Education and The Great

The Guardian - UK

I quit! The art of writing the great resignation letter

Oliver Dowden’s wounded farewell note last week was full of the kind of passive aggression found in classics of the genre

The Independent UK

The First Lady review: Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Viola Davis can’t save this confused period drama

Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama get the crusty, historical treatment in this plodding 10-part show

Los Angeles Times

Emmys 2022: Limited series race again offers too many choices, not enough slots

Here we are, six months into the year and the front-runners in the limited series categories remain the same shows we watched and loved from 2021 — HBO's sharp satire of entitlement, "The White Lotus" (which premiered nearly a year ago) and two series from October, Netflix's intimate drama "Maid"…

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The Guardian - UK

What links Eleanor Roosevelt and The Simpsons to James Callaghan’s daughter?

With the launch of TV drama The First Lady, we go down the rabbit hole with Michelle Pfeiffer, Nora Ephron and Bill Clinton

Daily Mirror

Inside the remarkable lives of America's first ladies in exciting new TV series

A new TV series called The First Lady will look at the lives of Michelle Obama, Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt – played by Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson

Salon

Jimmy Carter and disability rights

In 1977, people with disabilities occupied federal buildings across America. It was the beginning of something big

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: The toxic femininity of the Kardashian clan

To paraphrase Eleanor Roosevelt, no one can make you watch "The Kardashians" without your consent.

Salon

First Lady doesn't live up to its icons

Not even Viola Davis, Gillian Anderson and Michelle Pfeiffer can save this loose braid of slight biographical drama

The Independent UK

'First Lady' drama spotlights Roosevelt, Ford, Obama spouses

Showtime's series “The First Lady” dramatizes the lives of three presidential spouses during their time in and outside the White House

Chicago Tribune

‘The First Lady’ review: Famous actors take on roles of Michelle Obama, Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt in a series that needs to dig deeper

Would Showtime’s “The First Lady” work better if it hadn’t cast such famously recognizable actors to play Michelle Obama, Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt? Who’s to say, but I found it more difficult than usual to suspend my disbelief over the course of this 10-part series, which toggles between the…

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