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Exhibit on emancipation at Williams College powerful, necessary
Albany Times Union· 18 hours agoThe anchor is the 1862 executive order by Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, which has...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 7 days agoOver forty years of neoliberal economic policy have profoundly exacerbated income and wealth inequality especially across racial lines. The crisis of the...
Memphis residents say environmental racism prompted pollution ‘cesspool,' wreaking havoc
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoThat campaign, which received public support from former Vice President Al Gore and actress-activist Jane Fonda, succeeded. After the ethylene oxide danger surfaced in 2022...
I SEE U, Episode 116: America’s Legalized Corruption with Legal Scholar Mehrsa Baradaran | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 3 days agoFast-forward more than 160 years to today, Black households currently have a total wealth of just...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
Detroit's Civil War history, uncovered - WDET 101.9 FM
WDET-FM Detroit· 3 days agoIn 1863, as the Civil War raged on, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation ...
April marks the beginning and end of the American Civil War
Daily Press· 18 hours agoApril is a good time to explore local sites that focus on the American Civil War, which began on...
Correcting the record on reparations with Trymaine Lee
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 7 days agoHe wanted to free enslaved people in the District [Washington, D.C.]. This was a year before the ...
ICIVICS AND THE WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION LAUNCH "BRIEF THE CHIEF," A NEW DIGITAL GAME...
WDTN-TV 2 Dayton· 13 hours agoDeveloped in consultation with top historians and educational games experts, Brief the Chief gives students insight into American history by teaching them how Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln ...