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Two Tulsa researchers are working to preserve black history. 2 News Oklahoma’s Naomi Keitt learned their work, the Black ...

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Amid big budget cuts, Wyoming Legislature has tentatively earmarked $35,000 to helicopter a section of a historically ...

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A Texas man convicted of killing a pastor in his own church during a robbery, days after being released from a court-order anger-management program, is slated to be executed Wednesday. Steven ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...