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ROOTS at the White House The White House hosted a day-long exploration of how we find our American stories along with a screening of History Channel’s “Roots”. The cast and producers from HISTORY’s event series “Roots” – including Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker, Tony Award® winner Anika Noni Rose, Malachi Kirby, Co-Executive Producer and original […]

NASA: New Horizons’ Best close-up of Pluto’s surface NASA Updated: May 27, 2016 This is the most detailed view of Pluto’s terrain you’ll see for a very long time. This mosaic strip – extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015 – now includes […]

President Obama signs bill modernizing racial language The federal government will no longer use the terms “Negro” and “Oriental” H.R.4238 was unanimously passed in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate earlier in 2016. President Barack Obama signed into law H.R. 4238 on May 20, 2016 which amends two federal acts from the […]

See Update: 2016 Cities and Towns Total Population Estimates -Release date May 25, 2017 https://dilemma-x.net/2017/05/25/2016-cities-and-towns-total-population-estimates/ 2015 Cities and Towns Total Population Estimates -Release date May 19, 2016 U.S. Census Bureau Georgetown, Texas, saw its population rise 7.8 percent between July 1, 2014, and July 1, 2015, making it the nation’s fastest-growing city with a population […]

United Kingdom: Sadiq Khan elected Mayor of London BBC News Referring to his council estate roots, Mr Khan, the city’s first Muslim mayor, said he wanted all Londoners to have the same opportunities he has had. It comes as Defence Secretary Michael Fallon defended Conservative Zac Goldsmith’s campaign, describing it as the “rough and tumble” […]