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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 5 days agoTheWrap offers a brief history lesson on Freedom Day, which commemorates the nation's full abolition of slavery and became a federal holiday just three...
In ‘Black Barbie,’ the 44-year-old doll reclaims her spotlight
TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"Black Barbie" director Lagueria Davis and Kitty Black Perkins, designer of the first Black Barbie,...
The beginner's guide to celebrating Juneteenth - WBBJ TV
WBBJ TV· 5 days agoFor generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of history’s darkest chapters with...
Reggie Jackson Speaks the Ugly Truth About Baseball’s Past
The Nation· 1 hour agoCommissioner Rob Manfred and the geniuses he employs thought that staging a feel-good game at...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"It is as important as the Fourth of July. In fact, I dream some day they celebrate from the 19th to the fourth, like they do Mardi Gras," Lee said in...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 7 days agoBlack History Month is finally here, and I for one couldn’t be happier. Per a press release sent to The Root, the experience will encompass ...
Fact check: Trump rewrites Wisconsin history in rally filled with false claims
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFormer President Donald Trump made more than two dozen false claims at his Tuesday campaign rally in...
Black sports history part of Juneteenth celebration in New Rochelle
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoStory continues after gallery. One...barbecued in between taking turns throwing horseshoes and perusing the sports history exhibit that lined the fence. "We are so friendly ...
I Was Told I Was Too Fat to Access Fertility Treatment
Time via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoThis makes a strong case that imposing BMI cutoffs also has the effect of being anti-Black and...
Even the Supreme Court’s conservative justices are polarized about the state of American politics
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoIts democracy has been tested by division and discord and has come through stronger in the end....
