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Asheville Pushes Forward on Reparations as Similar Efforts Gain Momentum Across Country
The New York Sun· 11 hours agoAs Asheville, North Carolina, seeks to “make amends” for slavery and subsequent discrimination, the...
Virginia school board decides to rename schools after Confederate traitors, reversing 2020 decision
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 day agoBy a 5-1 vote, the school board reversed a 2020 decision to change the names of schools, which will...
It Is Claimed that Black Babies Were Used as Alligator Bait in the American South. The Evidence Is...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoA 2014 article in the Miami New Times agreed that these claims are supported by good research: It...
Jayne Anne Phillips’ novel ‘Night Watch,’ Eboni Booth’s drama ‘Primary Trust’ among Pulitzer winners
KTLA-TV Los Angeles· 5 days agoNEW YORK (AP) — Stories of race, slavery and the Civil War, real and invented, were winners this...
UK research reveals hand car wash sector is awash with exploitation
Phys.org· 1 day agoThe risk of slavery in hand car washes across the UK has been exposed by new data from Nottingham...
Pulitzer Prize: Winners of the 2024 arts categories address identity, race and war
Euronews via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSeveral stories tackling race, slavery and the US Civil War, both real and invented, were among the...
Sacramento inches closer to implementing reparations
Orange County Register· 7 days agoChattel slavery was a sinful impediment to human progress and a stain upon our nation. Almost two centuries after the institution of race-based slavery...
Virginia County Reinstates Confederate School Names 4 Years After Racial Reckoning Prompted Their...
People via Yahoo News· 1 day ago“I think it is unfair to me that restoring the name is up for discussion,” said student Aliyah Ogle,...
Doing Right Is Hard When Doing Wrong Is Profitable
Bloomberg· 17 hours agoThe 17th-century Dutch were quite aware that slavery was pernicious and dove in anyway. Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business,...
Review: Erik Larson puts the reader in the action during the lead-up to America’s deadliest conflict...
Chattanooga Times Free Press· 13 hours agoMost middle-school students are taught that the first shot of the Civil War was fired by Confederate...