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Louisiana town erects monument to pay homage to victims of bloody Colfax Massacre
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Colfax Massacre was the deadliest atrocity of the Reconstruction Era in the South. A new...
Bonded through atrocity, men set out to correct record of Louisiana's Colfax Massacre
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCOLFAX, La. – The shiny new black marble monument dedicated to the victims of the Colfax Massacre...
Colfax Massacre descendants talk about racial healing on both sides
The Town Talk via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe ancestors of the Rev. Avery Hamilton and Dean Woods were on opposite sides of the Colfax...
The Colfax Massacre: The mass shooting that made America
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOPINION: 150 years ago today, a white supremacist act of domestic terrorism set the stage for Black...
A deadly massacre of the post-slavery era finally gets a suitable memorial
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoExactly 150 years after a violent massacre left dozens of Black people dead, the small Louisiana...
On This Day, April 13: White supremacists kill dozens in Colfax massacre
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOn April 13, 1873, a mob of former Confederate soldiers and Ku Klux Klan members killed dozens of...
Voter intimidation in 2022 follows a long history of illegal, and racist, bullying
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDespite intimidation both current and historical, American voters turned out in near-record numbers...
A Republican whitesplaining Black history to Don Lemon shows why schools need more critical race...
theGrio via AOL· 1 year agoOPINION: GOP presidential Vivek Ramaswamy claims the Civil War was fought so Black people could own...