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It Is Claimed that Black Babies Were Used as Alligator Bait in the American South. The Evidence Is...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoThese white people were sick beyond belief. These alligator hunters needed to lure the larger bull...
Lee Hawkins: Tips and advice from his search through family history
MPR News· 5 days agoBoth projects explore my family's 400-year journey in America, shedding light on how we were impacted intergenerationally by America's history of enslavement and Jim
Robert Smalls will be memorialized outside Statehouse, a century after his death
South Carolina Daily Gazette via Yahoo News· 1 day agoCOLUMBIA — Legislators agreed unanimously to memorialize Robert Smalls on Statehouse grounds with a...
‘The Masked Singer’ Reveals Identity of the Poodle Moth: Here’s the Celebrity Under the Costume
Variety via AOL· 3 days agoSPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 11, Episode 10 of “The Masked...
Despite wide opposition, all-white Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate school names
United Press International via Yahoo News· 1 day agoGaylene Kanoyton, president of the Hampton NAACP, said in a statement, "Such actions only perpetuate...
Editorial: A race to the bottom in Florida teacher pay
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 days agoGive dunce caps to the Florida Legislature for flunking one of life’s most obvious lessons. It’s...
Duke Ellington, the Jazz Legend Who Became a Diplomat
Foreign Policy Magazine· 7 days agoThe bandleader and composer helped elevate jazz’s stature from a popular novelty to an art on par...
Cornell Keynotes podcast: The American South braces for a huge unionization push | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell News Service· 4 days agoWill auto industry unionization in Tennessee and Alabama galvanize a new labor movement in the South...
'Shame of Chicago' examined housing bias. Let's do the same for employment discrimination.
Chicago Sun-Times· 18 hours ago“Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation” not only provided a glaring and, at times, shocking account...
'Something Bigger than Yourself': Defense Secretary Austin Pitches Service to Historically Black...
Military.com via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOn Friday, Austin, who grew up in Thomasville, Georgia, during the South's Jim Crow era, said that...