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Alice Lovejoy’s “Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War” tells a story that connects the coal fields of the Belgian Congo and the cotton fields of the Carolinas to the Manhattan Project in Tennessee.
Since he emigrated from Ecuador two decades ago, Luis got married, started a family and built a business in Monroe County. Then, one day he was pulled over by three masked ICE agents—and his life here was turned upside down.
A half-century ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a case that arose in Penfield—a little-remembered decision that has had lasting impact on access to affordable housing and the broader structure of racial and socioeconomic segregation in the U.S.
Emily Clasper, who recently took the reins at the Monroe County Library System and the Rochester Public Library, is facing difficult issues that include looming federal funding cuts.
In the first two years of a three-year campaign, more than 4,000 street trees have been planted, many in disadvantaged neighborhoods. But under the Trump administration, money for urban forestry initiatives may be in jeopardy.
Spiritus Christi’s James Callan, who died Friday at 77, pushed for women in leadership and other progressive positions, leading to a schism that attracted national attention.
Gloria Winston Al-Sarag, who died Nov.11, was best known as a journalist and commentator in the city’s Black press.
After nearly half a century in the Neighborhood of the Arts, Visual Studies Workshop will move to the former Frederick Douglass Resource Center building on King Street.
A new book explores how the horticulture industry shaped the Flower City for generations to come.
For members of the Newspaper Guild of Rochester, whose contract with Gannett expired in 2019, the fight for adequate pay and protections is a righteous one.