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171 years ago today, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, was first published in the abolitionist periodical The National Era. In the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century following the Bible. A landmark in…

In Saskatchewan, Canada’s first free grocery store is set to open as a flourishing food bank continues to look for ways to support the community. Located at 1881 Broad St. in Regina, the Food Hub will be stocked like any old grocery store, and unlike similar projects that operate out of…

35 years ago today, in the first modern elections in Poland, Lech Walesa’s Solidarity Party of trade unionists won 160 out of 161 seats in the government, triggering the Revolutions of 1989, and quite simply, the fall of Communism, freeing Eastern Europe to pursue self-government and market capitalism. READ a bit…

A grandmother has defied her age and weight by becoming the first woman to swim from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands—a distance of darn near 30 miles. The former collegiate swimmer had not done any swimming for 24 years, but braved frigid waters, sharks, and jellyfish—all without…

Over the last five years, the Stop & Shop Food Pantry has provided $100,000 in healthy food donations to make sure students don’t come to school hungry. They’ve hit a home run against hunger—and the Boston Red Sox have stepped up to the plate to celebrate the victory. The baseball team’s…