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How a ‘border ruffian’ who supported slavery got a monument honoring him in a KC park
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 42 minutes agoA reader asked about the history behind a memorial to Charles Carroll Spalding in Penn Valley Park....
Never forget: A senator was bludgeoned as tempers flared over slavery in Kansas 168 years ago
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoOn May 22, 1856 — 168 years ago — he suffered a beating at the hands of the unhinged South Carolina...
Court rejects NAACP claim Arizona's private prisons use is akin to slavery
Arizona Daily Star· 13 hours agoArizona’s use of private prisons does not violate the rights of inmates, a federal appeals court...
California Moves Closer to Formal Apology for Slavery After Unanimous Assembly Vote | VIDEO | EURweb
EURweb· 1 day ago*California is moving towards officially apologizing for the horrors African Americans endured...
CA Senate passes 3 bills that would create reparations agency, funding
ABC7 News· 12 hours agoThe California State Senate passed a trio of reparations bills Tuesday written with the intent to...
Government compensation for slavery? NJ may lead in answering that question
WPIX New York City, NY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoNEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — In just over a month, on Juneteenth, a preliminary report will release one of...
If anyone should be paying slavery reparations, it’s West Africa
Daily Telegraph· 2 days agoThe logic behind British reparations is deeply flawed. Responsibility for slavery cannot be reduced...
'Slavery' in Socorro? One of the last surviving participants in a U.S. program for migrant workers...
ABC 7 El Paso· 16 hours agoMemories of those first moments in America came rushing back for Corral this month during a...
Cornel West joins DC reparations protest against Wells Fargo Bank
Fox News via Yahoo News· 4 hours ago"It's been that way for 40 years, and we've had to keep track of all the financial institutions that...
Gov. Kay Ivey makes Juneteenth Alabama state holiday for 2024
Alabama Reflector via Yahoo News· 2 days agoKay Ivey sent to state department leaders on Monday The memo identifies the state holidays for the...