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What to know about Milwaukee's Hillside neighborhood
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoMilwaukee's Hillside neighborhood sits at the center of the city's vibrant and historic African-American community called Bronzeville. Today, Hillside is...
Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider
WJBF Augusta via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoThe controversy complicates the already-choppy efforts by the mostly white denomination to diversify...
Black D-Day combat medic’s long-denied medal laid on Omaha Beach
Army Times via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoA medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach...
Racial segregation, redlining in Louisville neighborhoods still hurts Black home buyers today
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoThe National Association of Real Estate Brokers, which operates in Louisville and in major cities...
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries slams GOP congressman who said Blacks were better off under Jim Crow ...
New York Daily News· 6 days agoRep. Hakeem Jeffries ripped a fellow congressman for suggesting that Black people were better off...
'A dignity that all Americans should have': The fight to save historically Black cemeteries
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days ago"Having access to a historic cemetery that's connected to one's family, and even more broadly to historical...
Evanston’s groundbreaking reparations program challenged by lawsuit from a conservative activist...
KOAM· 6 days agoThe lawsuit, filed last month, against the city of Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, alleges the program’s requirement that applicants state whether they and their ancestors identify ...
It might not be the time for reparations in KC, but we need to talk about our history | Opinion
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFrom business opportunities to life expectancy to traffic stops, the disparities between Black and...
Byron Donalds Cannot Stop Praising the Jim Crow Era
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIt’s gotten so bad, he’s even getting grief about it from Fox News...expanded Social Security benefits and Medicare and raised the minimum wage, among...
‘You have to know your history and build on it.’ Clay County kicks off Juneteenth celebration with...
KCTV 5 Kansas City· 4 days agoThe day commemorates the freedom of slaves in the United States and the Clay County African American...