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Ben Greenberg

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As seen in: Medium, HuffPost, USA Today, Code Switch, NPR, The Times of Israel, HackerNoon, WNYC (New York, NY), DEV Community, Louder and
Covers:  racism, 1960s, new orleans, violence against women, ku klux klan, us congress, fbi, voting rights, louisiana, southwest mississippi, gulf coast, race, doj, human rights, mississippi, american south, 1950s, civil rights movement, civil rights, cold cases
Past: @AmExperiencePBS digital director, @frontlinepbs reporter #unresolved, founding reporter @reveal's Civil Rights Cold Case Project | @beng@newsie.social

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I am a founding member of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project—a collaborative project of the Center for Investigative Reporting and Paperny Films—bringing together the power of investigative reporting, narrative writing, documentary film making and interactive multimedia production to reveal the long-neglected truth behind unsolved civil rights murders, and to facilitate reconciliation and healing.

In 2006 I was a guest editor for the March/April Dollars & Sense Magazine, a special issue devoted…

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Decades after slaying, Mississippi family seeks justice

Decades after slaying, Mississippi family seeks justice

Despite its most vigorous efforts, the Justice Department has told Congress that the FBI has not been able to…

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A Father's Life Tugs His Son to Revisit Unsolved Crimes

A Father's Life Tugs His Son to Revisit Unsolved Crimes

I didn't set out to be a journalist. When I went on paternity leave from my doctoral program for the spring 2…

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Alabama Senate Apologizes to Recy Taylor for 1944 Rape Case

Alabama Senate Apologizes to Recy Taylor for 1944 Rape Case

The Alabama Senate joined the state House yesterday in passing a resolution for an official state apology to …

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Recy Taylor May Finally See Alabama Acknowledge Her 1944 Rape

Recy Taylor May Finally See Alabama Acknowledge Her 1944 Rape

Recy Taylor was abducted and raped at gunpoint by seven white men in Abbeville, Ala., on Sept. 3, 1944. Her a…

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Investigations Force Feds to Revisit Murders of Civil Rights Era

Investigations Force Feds to Revisit Murders of Civil Rights Era

On Dec. 10, 1964, a 51-year-old, black shoe-shop owner named Frank Morris was burned alive inside his store i…

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Belated Justice for Civil Rights Era Crimes

Belated Justice for Civil Rights Era Crimes

The horrific deaths of the two young men, and their families' years of suffering without remediation, illustr…

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An AI agent that pays for its own API calls on AWS

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By Ben Greenberg 
| DEV Community
I built a small AWS Bedrock AgentCore agent that pays for a paywalled API with real USDC on Arbitrum One. It asks for a report, gets back HTTP 402 Payment Required, settles the charge on its own, and retries. No API key, no card on file, no human clicking approve. The settlement lands on Arbitrum One mainnet, and the run prints an Arbiscan link to the transaction so you can read it yourself. There's a great walkthrough of the same idea on Base Sepolia by William Mendoza Gopar.
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I let a kosher lobster run my Shabbat automations

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By Ben Greenberg 
| DEV Community
What I built I run an Orthodox Jewish household. That means twenty-five hours a week, every week, the family doesn't touch electronics, doesn't cook, and doesn't adjust the thermostat without thinking about it. Multiply that by the Jewish holiday calendar, where a holiday can chain into Shabbat for two days straight, and you have a real scheduling problem. The fridge needs to be in Sabbath mode before candle lighting and back to normal at the conclusion of the day.
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Quick tip: canonical URLs prevent silent SEO damage

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By Ben Greenberg 
| DEV Community
Quick tip on SEO: If your site is accessible at both https://example.com and https://www.example.com, Google sees two different sites and splits your ranking signals between them. Fix: add a canonical tag to every page: <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/page" /> Check if yours is set correctly — the free audit tool at https://audit.hummusonrails.com/free checks canonical tags along with 4 other key issues.
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