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“Jingle Bells” began life as “The One Horse Open Sleigh,” published by James Lord Pierpont in 1857 and first publicly performed in a minstrel show in Boston that September, not as a church carol . Loc...
The claim that “Jingle Bells” is racist rests not on the familiar melody or modern renditions but on documented evidence that the song’s earliest known public performance occurred in a 19th‑century bl...
Scholarly research shows “Jingle Bells” (originally “One Horse Open Sleigh”) was first published and performed in the 1850s and appears in minstrel-show programs in 1857, which means its early public ...
Researchers and commentators dispute whether “Jingle Bells” itself contains explicitly racist lyrics or whether its early performance context—an 1857 minstrel show—links the song to racist entertainme...
Research by Boston University theatre historian Kyna Hamill documents that "One Horse Open Sleigh" — the tune now known as "Jingle Bells" — was first publicly performed in a Boston minstrel show in Se...
Kyna Hamill’s 2017 research documents that the song first known as “The One‑Horse Open Sleigh” debuted in a Boston venue that staged minstrel shows and was performed in blackface . Hamill’s paper does...
“Jingle Bells” was written by James Lord Pierpont and first published in 1857 as “The One Horse Open Sleigh” (later reissued as “Jingle Bells”) — its earliest documented public performance appears on ...
Boston itself was not historically an island in the sense of being separated from the mainland by permanent open water, but parts of what is now the city and nearby land were once distinct islands or ...
Multiple news outlets report that a 22‑year‑old woman, identified as Nayra Guzmán, was arrested by ICE about 15 days after giving birth while her newborn remained hospitalized in a NICU; Guzmán was re...
Scholars and mainstream reporting credit James Lord Pierpont with writing the song first published in 1857 as “The One Horse Open Sleigh,” later retitled “Jingle Bells” . Newer archival work identifie...
Reports circulating on social media claim newly imported smartphones are “exploding” in Gaza; regional outlets and social posts say at least two phones detonated in people’s hands and that residents f...
Estimates from multiple secondary sources point to the New York metropolitan area as by far the largest Muslim population center in the United States in 2025, followed by several other major metros in...
The tune now called “Jingle Bells” was written as “One Horse Open Sleigh” by James Lord Pierpont and published in the late 1850s; its earliest known professional performances occurred in Boston minstr...
James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) was an American composer, organist and minstrel songwriter best known for publishing “The One Horse Open Sleigh” (later retitled “Jingle Bells”) in 1857; the song’s mel...
Scholarly research and multiple news outlets show that the song we now call “Jingle Bells” began life as “The One Horse Open Sleigh” and was performed on the minstrel stage in the mid-19th century — n...
As of the reporting in the supplied sources, large anti-ICE protests have occurred in many U.S. cities in 2025, including documented, continuing activity in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City and Nor...
The largest U.S. Jewish metropolitan community is the New York–Newark–Jersey City area, reported at roughly 2.1–2.18 million Jews, followed by major concentrations in Los Angeles, Miami and other metr...
Arrest figures for people "supporting Palestine" vary widely by country, protest and definition: reported UK arrests tied to support for the proscribed group Palestine Action total at least 2,489 as o...
Meghan Markle has showing a legal marriage to anyone named Joe (Joseph/Joseph Goldberg-) Giuliano; available reporting and public records show her only marriages were to Trevor Engelson and Prince Har...
Federal prosecutors have charged and convicted at least one person identified with Antifa in a high-profile federal arson case that resulted in a 19-year prison sentence, which officials and commentat...