Reel Injun
Recommended THE FILM: Reel Injun is a film with a knotty, fascinating, and important story to tell about the intersection of Native American history with the medium--the cinema--that was born just as that history seemed to be coming to a tragic, ignobly inflicted end. Director Neil Diamond (no, not that Neil Diamond) is himself a Native American of the Cree tribe (which inhabits a far northern ...
Flags Thursday honor Centerville Marine
Between 250-300 people came to the Centerville Fire Department Thursday afternoon to take part in placing 2,200 American flags along the route the body of fallen Centerville Marine Master Sgt. Travis W. Riddick's body will travel.
Radnor native and NFL great Emlen Tunnell to be honored in his home town
Radnor Township will dedicate the flagpole and flags at Emlen Tunnell Park on Feb. 19 as part of its Black History Month celebration.
Activist sues over Mass. emblem
A local man has filed a $24 million lawsuit because he's upset over the Bay State's official seal, which depicts a sword hanging over a Native American's head.
Voice behind efforts for Md. Dream Act began activism as a teenage immigrant
That April 10 nearly six years ago was one of Jaime Contreras’s defining moments. People arrived on the Mall by the tens of thousands, waving American flags and chanting in Spanish, “Yes, we can!” Contreras, 37, still vividly remembers the vigor of more than a quarter of a million people demanding immigration reform. Read full article >>
Suit a seal of disapproval for Bay State's emblem
A Cambridge activist who says he's sick and tired of living in a state whose official seal depicts a sword hanging...
Two Afghanistan vets get Purple Heart at Palo Alto VA hospital
With family, friends and vets hoisting American flags encircling them, Geoffrey Quevedo and Semisi Tokailagi Quevedo both received the Purple Heart in a courtyard at Palo Alto's Veterans Administration hospital, where they are being treated for severe injuries suffered in Afghanistan last year. Despite debilitating wounds, the two men beamed with pride, refusing to complain about their plights.
Suit seeks retirement of Mass. state seal
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts man is suing to stop the state from using the official seal because it depicts an American Indian with a sword hanging over his head.
Kosovo native plotted Tampa bombings, feds say
A Florida man, arrested Saturday for allegedly plotted to bomb night clubs and the sheriff's headquarters in Tampa, Florida, faces a federal judge on a terror charge Monday afternoon, federal prosecutors said.
