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Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days
New Jersey Monitor via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoThe actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first...
22 Ida B. Wells Quotes About Injustice, Truth and Virtue
Parade via Yahoo News· 4 days ago"The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American." 16. "The alleged...
‘Trouble So Hard’ takes a musical journey through slavery to civil rights in Charlotte
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 1 day ago“It became an opportunity to teach how this too-commonplace suppression began and continues, and to...
Tennessee Speaker Cameron Sexton wants to turn Memphis red. He might succeed.
Gannett via AOL· 24 hours ago(MIT) Elections Performance Index. Will it be voter turnout, or suppression, that changes the tide?...
Canada hits Russia with new sanctions for Navalny's death, human rights violations
Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoThe new sanctions target high-level officials in Russia's investigative agency, penitentiary...
A study says Black people believe ‘racial conspiracy theories.’ Given this country’s history, can...
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 6 days agoOPINION: A Pew study found that most Black people are suspicious of government institutions. There...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoTo Sewell, voting rights aren’t just policy but personal as she was raised in Selma, the main hub where our civil rights heroes had organized. Now, as Alabama and other southern ...
Report details why wealthy people really oppose democracy
The Raw Story· 1 day agoWhy are America’s plutocrats funding efforts to weaken our democracy and replace it with plutocracy...
Far from making their last calls, LGBTQ+ bars evolve to imagine a new world
Stacker via AOL· 7 days agoStates, serving as spaces where communities could gather, political organizing could occur, and...
A Few Midwives Seek to Uphold Native Hawaiian Birth Traditions. Would a State Law Jeopardize Them?
US News & World Report· 4 days agoKi‘inaniokalani Kahoʻohanohano longed for a deeper connection to her Native Hawaiian ancestors and culture as she prepared to give birth to her first child at home on the north shore of Maui ...