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Morgan Freeman Talks ‘The Gray House,’ Rips Into Black History Month: ‘My History Is American...
Variety via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMorgan Freeman isn’t a fan of Black History Month. “I detest it. The mere idea of it. You are going...
Kansas, Missouri House Republicans voted to bring back pro-slavery, anti-US monument | Opinion
Wichita Eagle via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery is a tribute to an insurrection devoted to...
Boone County alum pressures her old high school to change Rebels nickname
Gannett via AOL· 23 hours agoThough slavery was legal in Kentucky until 1865, the state did not secede from the Union during the...
Opinion | What They Didn’t Teach Me in Philadelphia, Miss.
Mississippi Free Press· 8 hours agoFlorence Mars, a white native of Philadelphia, Miss., wrote in 1977 that “society will act against...
Local historian shares tales of St. Helena’s freed people during and after the Civil War
Hilton Head Island Packet via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJuneteenth celebrates the day the Union army reached Texas, the westernmost state of the Confederacy...
Arizona GOP reps vote to restore racist 'mammy' statue
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 4 days agoOther people simply refer to this monstrosity as the “mammy” statue. They're OK with a 'sanitized'...
How to battle the 2nd great insurrection
The Raw Story· 2 days agoHave you noticed how rarely Republicans talk about actual issues? — They rant about brown people pouring over the southern border but refuse to even...
Defend Liberalism? Let’s Fight for Democracy First
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoGiven the rather unliberal, albeit overdue, military means of statecraft, the old Confederacy cried foul on the “forced ratification” necessary for them...
Florida Republicans terrorized a teacher because of a Black Lives Matter flag. She hit back and won
Salon via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA crowd had pounced to keep the students of Robert E. Lee High School, 70% of whom are Black, from...
Ben Fields: West Virginia Day brings up old bone to pick (Opinion)
The Charleston Gazette· 2 days agoWest Virginia’s history, especially its founding, is very unique. As all good West Virginians know,...