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Sacramento’s Juneteenth events feature The 1619 Project creator at Oak Park’s Guild Theater
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoHowever, in spite of the challenges, backlash and criticism Hannah-Jones was faced with in...
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· 11 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 ...
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....
Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight & More Bring a Joyous Celebration of Juneteenth to the White House
Billboard via Yahoo News· 7 days agoEdward Markey (D-Mass.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.)...
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...
The Blackburn Brothers, wayshowers of 230 years of Canadian Roots & Blues
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPLATTSBURGH — Sankofa. A Twi word and also a stylized bird of the Akan tribe in Ghana with its feet forward and its head turned backward holding a precious stone in its beak, which symbolizes ...
Review | Nell Irvin Painter’s understanding of America is beautiful and bracing. We should listen.
Washington Post· 6 days agoFrom the opening sentences of her new collection, “I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays,” historian...
