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California considering reviving Freedmen's Bureau to deliver reparations
Revolt via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCalifornia Capitol In 2020, California became the first state in the nation to move toward...
Why an 1860s agency that helped newly freed Blacks might return in California
NBC Universal via AOL· 1 year agoDuring its most recent hearing, the California Reparations Task Force voted to recommend reviving a...
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoIn the past few years, the period in American history known as Reconstruction has become increasingly prominent in the public consciousness. The dominant...
Will the Supreme Court Uphold the 14th Amendment and Block an Oregon Law Criminalizing Homelessness?
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 months agoNearly 38 million Americans live in poverty. In some areas and among some populations, entrenched...
‘The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic’ Review: The Dream That Died
The Wall Street Journal· 3 months agoBOOKSHELF In 1872 John Lynch became the first African-American from Mississippi to be elected to the...
End financial segregation that harms HBCUs such as Tennessee State University | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe first Morrill Act was passed in 1862 by Abraham Lincoln providing federal land to states, in...
Righting the past: Rev. L. B. Croom, civil rights activist, dies at 73
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEditor's note: This is the second in a series of historical obituaries rewritten today to honor the...
College Hill School: First Black public school in Maury County celebrated
Columbia Daily Herald via Yahoo News· 4 months agoMore than 100 former students and residents gathered to celebrate the history of the College Hill...
What taking an AncestryDNA test revealed to me
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI decided to take the plunge. After years of watching upbeat, inspirational commercials and listening to long tales over the dinner […] The post What...
Efforts being made to preserve old Maryland segregated, all-Black schoolhouses
CBS News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe keys to unlocking the doors of Black history may not rest in the pages of school history books,...
