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During his entire run in “Hamilton,” actor-writer-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda wasn’t only thinking about political leaders in 18th-century America. His mind was also on islanders in the South Pacific some 2,000 years ago.

Cynthia Gordy is the Washington reporter for The Root. President Barack Obama has frequently called education the most important civil rights issue of our generation. "There's a reason the story of the civil rights movement was written in our schools," he said at the 2009 NAACP convention, citing Brown v. Board of Education and the Little Rock Nine. "It's because there is no stronger weapon against inequality and no better path to opportunity than an education that can unlock a child's God-given potential.

Pro-Palestine supporters gather for a rally at the News Corp building near the Rockefeller tree lighting in New York, New York, on Wednesday. Photograph: David Dee Delgado/Getty ImagesPro-Palestine supporters gather for a rally at the News Corp building near the Rockefeller tree lighting in New York, New York, on Wednesday. Photograph: David Dee Delgado/Getty ImagesNew York This article is more than 1 month oldThis article is more than 1 month oldDemonstrators say they are using event as ‘educational moment for our fellow New Yorkers’

Play video content RUNNIN' FREE ON THE FREEWAY UPDATE 2:04 PM PT -- Dallas PD tells TMZ ... "We responded to SB Central Expressway in the area of Haskell around 4:40 pm on Friday for reports of a man naked in the roadway. The man was taken to a local hospital for evaluation. No charges filed." A buck-naked man gave drivers a free peep show on a Texas highway .

Play video content BARBIE BRAWL All that glitters must not be gold -- or pink, for that matter -- because a white-hot argument during a "Barbie" screening took a physical turn, and fast! The beef went down in Brazil as the credits were scrolling for the Margot Robbie-led film, ironically as Billie Eilish's moving "What Was I Made For?" was playing in the background. According to folks online, someone in the theater was letting their kid watch videos on a phone during the movie .

They've loved, they've lost, and they've even found new love! For the season 4 couples and singles from Love Is Blind, it's been more than a year since the results of their social experiment.  And while more couples than any past season found their happily ever afters, there was still plenty of heartbreak and lots of drama. With the season 5 premiere of Love Is Blind dropping on Netflix later this month and a fresh split in the news, look back at where the season 4 stars are today.

The sport of bodybuilding is famous for its mass monsters and insanely shredded physiques. The sport has evolved a lot over the years, with the standards of the game-changing every once in a few years. While there was a time back during the golden era when athletes used to be a little bit on the softer side, they also carried significantly smaller sizes compared to modern bodybuilders. However, now the sport consists of out-of-this-world athletes who are humongous and carry a single body fat percentage at the same time.

Redeem now A fight broke out in Montgomery, Alabama, after a group of white people punched a Black dock worker. Montgomery police have charged three people with assaulting the dock worker and another employee. A video of the incident that was shared on social media went viral and sparked a boatload of memes. The internet is ablaze after a Saturday brawl in Montgomery, Alabama, that began after an unnamed Black worker reportedly asked a group of white people to move their pontoon boat to make way for a large riverboat trying to dock.

Lindsay Lohan's letting it all hang out amid her busy globetrotting schedule—and we're not just talking about her wacko hide-and-seek table shenanigans. The beleaguered starlet managed to avoid a disastrous wardrobe malfunction in Brazil this past weekend as she stepped off a helicopter, barely sparing onlookers from a full-on glimpse of her breast. But the paps still got an eyeful: Wearing a gray maxi dress, the 26-year-old flashed some serious side boob while exiting the chopper on Saturday in Florianópolis, coming within a hair's breadth of all-out peekaboo.