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I have decided: to be reborn as a hearty sapling, raised by a forest fam — into an excellent tree! She will be called Sylvi! In the canopy of whom, birds will nest, and in its penumbral shade, people will rest — inspired to write, compose, and sing songs — I am convinced. The se...

However, groundbreaking research by Corina Amor Vegas and her colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) suggests that the key to combating aging might lie within our own bodies, specifically in our immune cells. The team’s research revolves around a type of white blood cell known a...

When I was 5 my sister found me marking out all the black children in a Sears catalogue of playground equipment with a big red X. She told me later in life that in that moment she taught me this wasn’t something we did to people…X them out. I don’t remember that moment, ...

When you think about concentration camps, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Nazi Germany. But, America had a concentration camp of its own. And its story is so horrifying, it’s been erased from history. This is the Devil’s Punch Bowl, in Natchez, Mississippi. From abo...

The final departing words of Charles Caldwell. Charles Caldwell, a blacksmith born in Mississippi during the 1830s, became the first Black person to kill a White person and be found “not guilty” by the courts. When Caldwell was born, slavery was an integral part of the economic and so...

On June 6, the National Police located within the walls of a house in Torremolinos (Spain) the remains of Sibora Gagani, the 22-year-old girl of Italian nationality who had been missing since 2014. It is known that in 2011 the young woman moved with Marco, her boyfriend, to the coast of the s...

I gave you a clue on the title of this story. Starting tomorrow, I’ll be branding my curated lists because, let’s face it, ILLUMINATION’s curation game is strong — 50 collections in a jiffy! My audience adores these curated treasures, so in addition to my writing escapades, I...

When I was in my twenties, I collected objects I found on the sidewalks of Los Angeles. An early find was a hand-written letter from a mother to her incarcerated son explaining why she wouldn’t bail him out of jail. “I have the money,” she wrote. “But you need to learn a less...