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The FBI has released previously unpublished images of the devastation and grim aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon.

American Airlines Flight 77, commandeered by al-Qaeda terrorists, slammed into the side of the building, killing 184 people, including 59 passengers and crew and the five hijackers.

The plane hit between the first and second floors of the Pentagon.

The new photos show firefighters battling a huge fireball, on-scene FBI investigators, whose faces were blacked out for security reasons, and mangled debris and charred ruins. (Photos: FBI via epa)

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An extraordinary group of women who are on the front lines of the fight for bettering the lives for young black women and girls across the country gathered at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture this International Women’s Day to highlight the roles, needs, and contributions of black women and girls in the context of the Black Lives Matter Movement moment. Listen now.

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Photographer caption: Firewalking is the act of walking barefoot over burning charcoal. In Ha Giang, a mountain province in northern Vietnam bordered by China, the Pa Then ethnic group observes this practice to wish for prosperity in the new year.

Photo by Binh Duong (Hanoi, Vietnam); Ha Giang, Vietnam

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Modern medical science is absolutely amazing. We are learning so much these days and with ever-growing rapidity. The new information rushes at us like a speeding train. However, that said, our understanding of the brain is in its infancy. We are still in the stone age when it comes to understanding the brain and how it works. The late Carl Sagan once said that as far as we as a species know, the human brain may be the most complex thing in the universe.

Cosmos, episode 11, “The Persistence of Memory” (0:50:00)

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THE “ASSEMBLY CENTERS”

“We went to the stable, Tanforan Assembly Center. It was terrible. The government moved the horses out and put us in. The stable stunk awfully. I felt miserable, but I couldn’t do anything. It was like a prison, guards on duty all the time, and there was barbed wire all around us.”

-Osuke Takizawa

After they were removed from their communities, Japanese Americans were taken to one of 15 temporary holding facilities called “assembly centers.” These makeshift facilities were erected in requisitioned county fairgrounds, horse racetracks, and other large public spaces and operated by the army’s Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA). All were under military supervision—surrounded by barbed wire and armed sentries.

The “assembly centers” were crowded and uncomfortable. Some residents lived in hastily cleared and painted horse stalls and livestock pens, others in flimsy housing erected in parking lots and other open spaces. Entire families were crowded into single rooms. Each person was issued a mattress cover and instructed to fill it with straw to make their bedding. People stood in line three times a day to eat in mess halls and waited in other lines to use shower and toilet facilities.

The Japanese Americans remained in the “assembly centers” while permanent “relocation centers” were under construction inland. Eventually, they would be transferred to one of these ten permanent camps.

See these photographs and many more in our temporary exhibition IMAGES OF INTERNMENT: THE INCARCERATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WORLD WAR II on display in the Library’s William J. vanden Heuvel Gallery through December 31, 2017: https://fdrlibrary.org/exhibitions

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Mahershala, drawn in PS.

[Caption: A realistic digital painting of Mahershala Ali. Portrait is from the chest up in profile. Mahershala is wearing a dark tuxedo and bowtie with a patterned handkerchief. He has a mostly shaved head with black hair at the top. His face and body are cast in bluish light. The background is a gradient from pink to purple with bright colored amorphous shapes and squiggles.]

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HOW WILFRED LIMONIOUS BECAME JAMAICA’S MOST PROLIFIC ILLUSTRATOR.

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Roadtrip Nation’s newest season focuses on a pressing issue facing our country: the need for greater access to computer science education; especially among young women, minority youth, and youth from low income and rural communities.

Follow Natalie, Robin, and Zoed—computer science students who come from backgrounds underrepresented in the industry—as they seek out inspiring minorities who are dispelling tech stereotypes and shaping the future in unique ways.

Don’t miss the season premiere on September 1st!

Learn more

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Hidden Figures dir. Theodore Melfi

In the early 1960s a group of female African-American mathematicians at NASA who were America’s secret weapons in staying competitive in the Space Race.

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NEW YORK/BRUSSELS, MARCH 23, 2016 — Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has successfully tested 3-D printing and virtual reality technology to design hospitals that better meet the needs of patients.