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Working-Class Women Built A Criminal Empire In Victorian London And Outsmarted Police For Decades

Between the 1870s and the 1950s, a gang of working-class women ran an organized shoplifting operation in south London. They ...

The real-life rise and fall of Griselda Blanco—cocaine ‘godmother’ of the ‘70s

How did a girl who grew up in poverty in Colombia become an international narcotics queenpin pushing $80 million a month in ...
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Q&A: How A West Englewood Program Helps Formerly Incarcerated People Heal Across Generations

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network’s Green ReEntry program brings younger people and elders together for mentorship and ...

50 Hard-To-Believe Facts About Life In The 1980s From People Who Lived Through It

Speaking of pocket knives and the '80s — a kid who was a little older made an 8-year-old me stand against a fence so he could throw his pocket knife at me, but "miss," like some kind of circus act. He ...

Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the ...