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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoTheWrap offers a brief history lesson on Freedom Day, which commemorates the nation's full abolition of slavery and became a federal holiday just three...
Juneteenth offers new ways to teach about slavery, Black perseverance and American history
Indiana Capital Chronicle via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoWhy, they ask, did I like learning about slavery given that it was so horrible and harsh? How could...
Students at a New York middle school learn history through comic books - KYMA
KYMA· 15 hours agoStudents in one school district are learning history and civics in a new way. The sixth graders at...
Fayetteville neighbors: Fay Block tidying up dust. But they have seen this movie before.
Gannett via AOL· 1 hour agoBut Charleston said the designation environmental racism does not apply to this...
A Miami-Dade man, 83, believes his father was among the last Americans born into slavery
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 day ago“I went into my pocket, and I came up with a $50 bill and handed it to him,” Bell said. “I told him:...
Juneteenth is a celebration of history many Americas tried to hide | Social views
The Patriot-News· 2 days agoJuneteenth celebrations are sprouting up all over Pennsylvania just like in the rest of the nation....
Indian River school board ban of book about book bans gains international notoriety. Good?
TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoWhen McCarthyism was gripping the country in the 1950s, people's careers and lives were destroyed...
At age 50, National History Day keeps pushing students to seek difficult truths through research
WDTN-TV 2 Dayton· 7 days agoCOLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — It wasn’t your typical trifold poster board display. High school freshman...
‘Lost cause’ of our nation’s brutal racism permeates society, distorting history along the way
Maine Morning Star via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFew images from the violent attacks on peacefully demonstrating teens from civil rights-era...
30-year Cy-Fair ISD teacher fights board’s removal of science textbook chapters
Community Impact· 6 days agoAlicia Royer, who has been teaching science at Cypress Falls High School for 30 years, said she was...