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Apr 26, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Faron Levesque |Sabrina B. Sholts |Harvey Klehr |John Haynes

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Coppery like a penny, thick like bad molasses, even a little gamey like a possum. The white conductor’s blood in her mouth probably didn’t taste good, but it probably didn’t taste bad either. Ida B. Wells sat firmly while the Memphis streetcar man gripped her body, tried to forcibly remove her from the “First class ladies car” on a train from the Poplar Station to Northern Shelby County.

Apr 23, 2024 | popsci.com | Sabrina B. Sholts

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Apr 22, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Sabrina B. Sholts |Faron Levesque |Harvey Klehr |John Haynes

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Mar 12, 2024 | smithsonianmag.com | Sabrina B. Sholts

“There is no act of life so dangerous to others,” fumed physician Robert Eccles in 1909, “as carelessness concerning the condition of our hands.”He really meant it. In a seven-page rant titled “Dirty Hands,” published in the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazetteof New York City, Eccles blamed filthy fingers for the deadliest crimes of the age.