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The formerly enslaved lawmaker who warned about rewriting Black history
Washington Post· 2 days agoBorn into slavery on a plantation in Louisiana, he was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 day agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 5 days agoOver forty years of neoliberal economic policy have profoundly exacerbated income and wealth inequality especially across racial lines. The crisis of the...
I SEE U, Episode 116: America’s Legalized Corruption with Legal Scholar Mehrsa Baradaran | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 2 days agoFast-forward more than 160 years to today, Black households currently have a total wealth of just...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby atop Aristides. His story doesn't end there
The Courier Journal via Yahoo Sports· 7 days agoOn Jan. 1, 1863, when Lewis was 6, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing...
Detroit's Civil War history, uncovered - WDET 101.9 FM
WDET-FM Detroit· 2 days agoIn 1863, as the Civil War raged on, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation ...
Correcting the record on reparations with Trymaine Lee
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHe wanted to free enslaved people in the District [Washington, D.C.]. This was a year before the ...
Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose.
Washington Post· 6 days agoAlabama state Rep. Juandalynn Givan and other Black lawmakers have lobbied for years to have the...
Juneteenth icon Opal Lee to receive honorary doctorate from SMU
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth· 6 days agoThe degree will be presented at SMU’s commencement ceremony, May 11. DALLAS — Opal Lee, best known...