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A number of Democratic lawmakers have reintroduced the CROWN Act, legislation that would ban discrimination based on one's hairstyle or hair texture. Here, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs Crown Act legislation on June 15, 2023 in Lansing, Mich. that will outlaw race-based hairstyle discrimination in workplaces and schools.
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Peloton hit the skids after its pandemic boom, struggling to figure out how to grow beyond sales of luxury fitness equipment.
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Rhaina Cohen and her husband live in a row house with another couple and their two children in Washington, D.C. Cohen says they wanted to share a home with people who they were excited to live with — and who they could depend on. From left to right: Cohen, her husband, her housemate's child and her housemate.
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Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants made its TV debut 25 years ago on May 1, 1999 before the official series launch in July 1999.
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"You think it will never happen to you," Paul Auster wrote about aging and mortality in his 2012 book Winter Journal. He'spictured above in New York in April 2007.
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The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse is one of two "middle-of-the-river" lighthouses left standing on the Hudson River.
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Students at the University of Birmingham take part in their degree congregations as they graduate on July 14, 2009 in Birmingham, England.
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