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Hear from author Michelle Duster about her great-grandmother Ida B. Wells’ lifelong fight for equality. Writer and activist ...

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Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

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The 2,000-year-old military general figurine is the tenth of its kind to be excavated from the emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb, ...