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Navigating our reliance on maps

Correspondent Martha Teichner charts a course through the history of mapmaking, and the rise of road atlases, which, to our surprise, have not died out with the advent of GPS. Source

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Memories of the Tulsa Massacre

One hundred years ago, a White mob in Tulsa, Okla., killed 300 Black people and reduced the thriving Black community of Greenwood – also known as “Black Wall Street” – to ashes. New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow talks about one of the most notorious massacres in American history and those who witnessed it. Source

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Memories of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre

100 years ago, a White mob in Tulsa, Okla., killed 300 Black people and reduced a thriving Black community to ashes. New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow talks about one of the most notorious massacres in U.S. history and those who witnessed it. Source

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Taps Across America, reprised

Last year on Memorial Day, musicians from all 50 states played “Taps” in what turned out to be one of the largest musical tributes of all time. Taps Across America is back this year, and correspondent Steve Hartman talked with some of the musicians, young and old, who will be participating.
Go to cbsnews.com/taps for information on how to join. Source

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