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Sacramento’s Juneteenth events feature The 1619 Project creator at Oak Park’s Guild Theater
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoHowever, in spite of the challenges, backlash and criticism Hannah-Jones was faced with in...
Edward Robert McClelland: The Illinois debate that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure
Chicago Tribune· 2 days agoHere, McClelland takes us to Ottawa, Illinois, for the famed first senatorial debate between Lincoln...
85 years ago, a racist mob targeted Opal Lee’s home. Her new home is a symbol of community
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“Police told him, ‘If you bust a cap, we will let this mob have you.’ Our parents sent us to friends...
Trump resurrects Biden's 'devastating' 1994 crime bill as he courts Black Detroit voters: ‘Super...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 2 days ago"Never has it been more clear that Joe Biden’s reckless reversal...’s America First policies is the...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 17 hours agoJune 19, 1865, shortened to “Juneteenth,” was the day that enslaved African Americans in Texas were told that slavery had ended, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation ...
Yuen: Memories of the Jim Crow South haunted a Minnesota man. Then the nightmares terrorized his...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoNightmares afflicted the father of Lee Hawkins Jr. and awoke his son, then just a little boy growing up in the St. Paul suburb of Maplewood. His dad would jostle out of his sleep screaming, ...
Rumor Says Black People Couldn't Buy Vanilla Ice Cream Under Jim Crow. Here's the Truth
Snopes via Yahoo News· 1 day ago"I certainly would not want to refute those family histories, and I...widespread practice simply...
The Myth of the Argentine Yoga School Sex Cult
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 days agoComing Up in the Yoga School Case The case against Percowicz... also call the Times piece "a sensationalist attack" that parrots prosecutors' arguments....
‘The Blues Under the Skin’ Trailer: Restored Blues Doc Featuring B.B. King and Buddy Guy Finally...
indieWIRE· 6 hours agoB.B. King and Buddy Guy appear in the 1973 blues documentary 'The Blues Under the Skin.' Watch the...
A draft resister, a judge and the moment that still binds them after 54 years
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBob Zaugh was one of many young men who resisted the U.S. military draft during the Vietnam War. How...