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Rumor Says Black People Couldn't Buy Vanilla Ice Cream Under Jim Crow. Here's the Truth
Snopes via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoAs to why Black people were denied this flavor specifically, social media users presented numerous...
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe reason for Reconstruction’s sudden popularity is obvious. The birth of the Black Lives Matter movement has demanded new assessments of the nation’s...
Granderson: Praising the Jim Crow era? That's a red flag
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 days agoRep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) is staking out some odd positions as he tries to woo Trumpists and win a...
Opinion | In Search of the Lost Fireflies
New York Times· 20 hours agoThere were no trees. There was no road. I was the trees, and I was the road. That darkness was like no darkness I’ve ever known.
Due South's summer book recommendations
WUNC Chapel Hill· 7 days agoCo-host Leoneda Inge chats with Flyleaf Books' Maggie Robe and The Bitter Southerner's Alison Law about their summer reading recommendations.
Floridians head north for abortions now that six-week ban in effect
USA Today· 15 hours agoWhen Florida became the only state in the Southeast without a total or near-total abortion ban, Mary...
It Wasn’t Just Napster That Tanked the Music Biz
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 7 days agoEvery music lover remembers how drastically the world shifted at the turn of the millennium with the introduction of the MP3; all of a sudden,...
Editorial: The history, and hypocrisy, of the upside-down American flag
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAn upside-down U.S. flag outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s home is the latest...
The Black Caddies Who Helped Shape Pinehurst No. 2
Time via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoCaddying was seen as unskilled and entirely subservient, which in the minds of white Southerners at the time, made it a job for Black people. Black...
Before Spotify And Netflix, A Black Man Was The King Of Access. He Went To Federal Prison.
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAmid concerns around film and concert ticket prices, a new docuseries examines the complex and still...