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Happy Valentine's Day! Here is a lovely photo collection of couples in the 1950s.

On Sunday, July 11, 1943, seventeen-year-old, Bernice Delatte (a recent graduate of McDonogh No. 35 and a resident of 2116 Law Street) found herself on her way to Lake Pontchartrain for a pleasant swim, accompanied by her sister, Doris Delatte, and friend, Evelyn Segue. As the bus they were riding approached Franklin Avenue and Gentilly, […]

“By taking down Dunn, they were able to reinforce notions of black inferiority in Louisiana.”

Traitors, hypocrites, cowards, liars… there are about a trillion different words for people who sell out their own kind, but there’s one we can all agree on: assholes. Here are 10 guys who betrayed their own communities, big time: 10Anthony Johnson Johnson was a plantation-owner who almost single-handedly introduced slavery to the Colony of Virginia;

They say that winners write history and the losers - poetry. But in this case - where the following women were absolute winners - they were unfairly left out of the pages of history books. Or just mentioned in a sentence or two, failing to provide them the credit that they deserved. As so many marvelous inventions and creations can be credited back to these amazing people, Bored Panda feels the need for these names to be heard. Because as history and the media shows us - the voices of black…

Minnie RUTH SOLOMON waiting at the train station for her fiance, Olympic champion Jesse Owens on the eve of their wedding - 1935, Cleveland, Ohio

You might spot Tom Cruise raving about energy spirits outside of Spago, but you'll never catch some beloved performer straight up worshiping the devil. Right? (Hint: Wrong.)

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