Jessica Stokes

It Was the Closest Race Yet, but Katie Ledecky Is Still the Queen of the 800 Freestyle, 13 Years and Counting The epic battle was one of the greatest races in history. In the end, the 28-year-old American captured her seventh world championship in the event.

And a column from yesterday on the greatest, fastest, most dramatic 800 freestyle ever competed: Katie Ledecky, bracketed by challengers who would not go away, had to stay calm and then dig deep to extend her reign. bit.ly/3JgNT0E

I was in 3rd grade. They had wheeled in the AV cart so we could watch the launch live in our classroom. The next year, we wrote “Man of the Year” reports on big events from 1986. At least half the class chose to write about Challenger. Every 3rd and 4th graders could converse about how O-rings work.

Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.

The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.

Trump executive order declaring only ‘two sexes’ gets the biology wrong, scientists say Trump executive order declaring two sexes defies decades of research into how human bodies grow and develop

QOTD: “A dramatic failure to understand biology.”
Neuroscientist Rachel Levin, who studies the development of sex, characterizes an executive order issued by US president Donald Trump that attempts to define biological sex.
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