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On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
Inside Orioles owner David Rubenstein's business ventures with $3.9b net worth
The US Sun· 5 days agoBILLIONAIRE businessman David Rubenstein owns the Magna Carta, the Emancipation Proclamation - and...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 3 days agoOver forty years of neoliberal economic policy have profoundly exacerbated income and wealth inequality especially across racial lines. The crisis of the...
Opinion: Republicans have become 'de facto White Party' by rejecting multiracial democracy
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHowever, we should recognize there have been other important “beginnings” since then. Certainly, an...
Iowa politicians are still trying to teach history to your children
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 day agoRepublicans in the Iowa Legislature are determined to meddle in your kid’s classroom. The House and...
Correcting the record on reparations with Trymaine Lee
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHe wanted to free enslaved people in the District [Washington, D.C.]. This was a year before the ...
Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby atop Aristides. His story doesn't end there
The Courier Journal via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoOn Jan. 1, 1863, when Lewis was 6, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing...
Education should help students understand government and their roles in it | Tom Campbell
Star News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBut the issue prompts a larger discussion over public education. The National ...
Juneteenth icon Opal Lee to receive honorary doctorate from SMU
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth· 4 days agoThe degree will be presented at SMU’s commencement ceremony, May 11. DALLAS — Opal Lee, best known...
Finding home: The little-known story of a Black orphanage in southern Colorado
Colorado Springs Gazette· 5 days agoPUEBLO • Black history hides in a dark, dusty bunker on the tumbleweed plains of southeast Colorado...