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Read about a new fight over evolution in Tennessee
...Jimmie would just get out of his car and go over and slap somebody one time, that would help. He can slap me. I don't care, but I'd just like to see these drivers get something going other than just going around. We need a fight...
...helping restore a parcel of land to Chinatown that had been claimed by the city and bulldozed 40 years earlier to pave a highway for the Big Dig. Yoon said that the scale of the campaign that ACDC mounted to reclaim the land led him to realize a fight for social change needed political backing in order to be truly efficacious. Boston’s Chinatown was founded in 1890, and it remains the only historically Asian neighborhood in New England. Despite a long-established presence in the city, Asian American representation in Boston politics has been nonexistent. Yao commented...
...200th birthday is being celebrated on Feb. 12 in hundreds of cities around the world. Darwin's treatise On the Origin of Species was instrumental to the town's famous 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted noted trial lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan against each other in a fight to determine whether evolution should be taught in Tennessee public schools. (Read TIME's original 1925 story on the Scopes "monkey trial...
Though Bryan and the creationists initially won this fight, the law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in public schools was eventually overturned in the 1960s. And while most people in this town of 7,000 have been content to move past history, a Wisconsin-based atheist group, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, rubbed it in by purchasing a 12-ft. by 25-ft. billboard on the southern side of town to remind them of Darwin's legacy - and his milestone birthday. "Praise Darwin," the billboard reads. "Evolve Beyond Belief." (Read the 1955 TIME review of the original production of Inherit...