Petula Dvorak
Columnist at The Washington Post
Columnist for The Washington Post, off-balance mother of two, forever searching for comfortable heels and really good tomato soup.
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washingtonpost.com | Petula Dvorak
Revolutionary War veterans fought for a nation, then had to fight for a pension (washingtonpost.com) Revolutionary War veterans fought for a nation, then had to fight for a pension By Petula Dvorak 2025061110000100 Ichabod Beckwith was a 24-year-old patriot who heard the call for revolution in 1775 and set off with a company of battle-ready Minutemen on a march toward Lexington. That's where Beckwith's record as one of America's first veterans begins.
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post-gazette.com | Petula Dvorak
The British called a king’s ability to pardon the “prerogative of mercy,” and the Founding Fathers granted that superpower to the president in the U.S. Constitution. But as President Donald Trump grants pardons to rappers, reality show stars, and Jan. 6 rioters, here’s a look at some other notable presidential pardons throughout history.
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spokesman.com | Petula Dvorak |DeNeen Brown
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 that will put dollars and actions toward redress.
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washingtonpost.com | Petula Dvorak |DeNeen Brown
Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre (washingtonpost.com) Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre By Petula Dvorak; DeNeen L. Brown 2025060315472200 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 that will put dollars and actions toward redress.
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flipboard.com | Petula Dvorak |DeNeen Brown
21 hours agoThe city of Tulsa, Oklahoma is preparing to award its black community a $105m (£73.8m) reparations package to address the harms caused by the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the largest and most violent racial attacks in US history. The plan, by Monroe Nichols, Tulsa's first black mayor, focuses …
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June 10, 1925 — The cruel efficiency of D.C.’s traffic cops was also ruthless #100yearsagotoday. Rear Admiral Nicholson, Civil War vet and former commander of the Asiatic fleet, got hit with a ticket for parking without burning a fender lamp, a law to illuminate a parked car. https://t.co/7FGu3Jhvou
Deportations have never been smooth in Los Angeles...Deportees died in a plane crash. Woody Guthrie wrote a song about it. https://t.co/dOrBk4NswV
June 8, 1925 - It was common for city parks to be filled with people - families, singles, kids, elders - sleeping to escape hot apartments at night #100yearsago. DC tried to ban this, fearing it would encourage “vagrants”. #retropolis https://t.co/AjgcPeO3cJ