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‘Intersexual Feminist’ Club Plans ‘Equality’ Day at Bridgewater-Raynham

Matthew McDonald

Gender issues and media portrayal of women are among the topics at a daylong event at Bridgewater-Raynham High School sponsored by the school's Equality, Values, and Empowerment club.

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Activists on War Path Over Post Office Mural That Depicts Indian Raid

Matthew McDonald

"Cruel Adversity" depicts an Abenaki man about to torch an English settler's house in present-day Durham, New Hampshire in a 1694 raid that killed 104 inhabitants of the English settlement. Activists want the Durham post office to remove mural, which was commissioned in 1959, but so far the post office isn't budging.

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