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This wealthy white enclave was once home to newly freed Black Americans
Mother Jones· 4 hours ago40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly...
Evidence of Iran and UAE drones used in Sudan war
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoLike most of the city, the building had fallen into the hands of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the start of the civil war</ ...
Southern Baptist Convention disdains female ministers, but merit should eclipse misogyny
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoFrom the Civil War to the 19th Amendment to the Civil Rights Movement, the arc of history has always...
Finally, a specific accounting of land stolen from the formerly enslaved
Mother Jones· 4 hours ago40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly...
Number of people fleeing violence hits new peak
BBC via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoMore than nine million people have left their homes in Sudan during the civil war [Reuters] A record-breaking 120 million people have ...
Reconstruction-era records reveal how formerly enslaved people were stripped of land
NPR· 2 hours agoJournalist Alexia Fernández Campbell says some freed men and women were given titles to land following the Civil War -- but after President Lincoln's death, the land was taken back.
Black History Collective of Henderson County to put on Juneteenth events
Gannett via AOL· 8 hours agoJuneteenth, observed every year on June 19, commemorates the emancipation of African Americans in...
What is Juneteenth? Here's why we celebrate the federal holiday in South Carolina
Greenville News via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoWhat is Juneteenth? Juneteenth commemorates the final end of slavery in Confederate states just...
Juneteenth events begin this weekend
Shreveport Times | The Times via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoOn June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the Civil War was over and slavery abolished, more than two ...
American history turned upside down — and that’s the point - Roll Call
CQ Politics· 7 hours agoIt turns out Nikki Haley stumbling over the cause of the Civil War was not a one-off. The...
