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humansofnewyork:

Not sure what’s in the stroller, but I hope it has a Jeter jersey.

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discoverynews:

Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman!

Love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others,
hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown,
or to any man or number of men,
go freely with powerful uneducated persons,
and with the young, and with the mothers or families,
re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,
and dismiss whatever insults your own soul;
and your very flesh shall be a great poem….
 
 
~ Walt Whitman ~
 
 (from the Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 edition)

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todaysdocument:

“Separate is not equal”
On May 17, 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that separate but equal public schools violated the 14th Amendment.  On May 31, 1955, Chief Justice Earl Warren issued this decree, ruling how desegregation was to be carried out. The plan directs that schools be desegregated under the control of Federal district judges “with all deliberate speed.”

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Novel Ideas

UChicago professors assign a little summer reading to the Chicago Maroon, and to you.

Read Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. It will remind you that the sense of justice is ineradicable.

— Thomas Pavel (Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literature)

I would recommend Half of a Yellow Sunby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This is a luminary, beautifully written, can’t-put-it-down-until-I-finish-it tale of love, war, and human endurance. A must-read!

— Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Assistant Professor of African History)

I recommend Dale Carpenter’s Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas. This is a fascinating and readable account of the ins and outs of how the Supreme Court of the United States came to hold unconstitutional the criminal punishment of homosexual sodomy.

— Geoffrey R. Stone (Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor
The University of Chicago Law School)

Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: a fascinating tale of University of Chicago professor of history and departmental chair William E. Dodd, who, by a strange twist of fortune, became the U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany in 1933. He was accompanied by his daughter Martha, who turned out to be no less fascinating than her father at this critical moment of 20th-century history.

— David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature)

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The Snake Charmer.

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