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Ben Salomon, a Jewish Army Captain from Milwaukee, was on the strategically important island of Saipan near the village of Tanapag on July 7, 1944, for the 2nd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. Taking the island put them in range of mainland Japan. We Are the Mighty gives a detailed report about what happened and what was discovered by American forces who had retaken the position: “Contact with Salomon was lost for 15 hours as the American force conducted a withdrawal and then slowly took the territory back. When they found Salomon, he was laying on a machine...

When a white Democratic congressman declared in an email to supporters that racism "is deeply ingrained" in America's institutions and "everyday lives," he might not have expected a thorough rebuttal from his black Republican opponent in this fall's election. The Democrat, Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, also posted a "resource guide" on his website for "racial justice allyship" to "understand our nation's" black experience and combat "systemic racism" in America. But Kendall Qualls, the Republican nominee running against Phillips, took issue with Phillips' "attempt to convey the Black experience and redefine America in the process." In a guest piece for...

This is footage of a white dove perched on a branch and children singing the song, Kum Ba Yah, Come By Here.

TELEVISION It's not pretty, but 'Animal House' defines a generation BY GLEN GARVIN ggarvin@herald.com LOS ANGELES -- Dean Wormer: Who dumped a whole truckload of Fizzies into the swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween the trees are filled with underwear; every spring the toilets explode. Marmalard: You're talking about Delta, sir. Nobody had ever seen anything like it. It was rebellious, it was anarchic, it was gross. It had kids getting wasted and puking and being promiscuous, sometimes all at once. Its heroes were drunks and slobs and Peeping Toms; its villains...

The Inter-Fraternity Council at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, voted Monday to accept the Alpha Psi chapter of national gay fraternity Delta Lambda Phi, according to a press release from Delta Lambda Phi. The Kent State chapter of Delta Lambda Phi met with resistance in the spring when the chapter first petitioned for membership on the council, even though the group had been on campus since February 2000. "We're very pleased with the IFC's decision," said Joshua Dudeck, president of the Alpha Psi Chapter. "I wasn't sure how the vote was going to go, to be honest. This is...