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Harriet Tubman led a raid that freed more than 700 enslaved people. A South Carolina church has...
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJust before midnight on June 1, 1863 – around two years into theCivil War – Tubman and Col. James...
Fate of Capital City’s Andrew Jackson Statue Still Undecided
Mississippi Free Press· 4 days agoJACKSON, Miss.—Andrew Jackson still stands outside City Hall in Jackson, Miss., nearly four years...
Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 3 days agoRepublican majorities in the state House and Senate have different opinions on whether Mississippi should change the way it decides whether people...
Willie Mays, Entertaining Icon of Baseball, Dies at 93
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoWillie Mays, the incandescent center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants whose...
On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil War
Houston Chronicle· 4 days agoMy great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in...
How Willie Mays, and my first visit to the ballpark with my dad, changed my life | Opinion
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 3 days agoBy early Wednesday, the day after he died, the statue had become a memorial shrine to Mays. The...
A journalist traces his family tree back to ancestor who served in Black regiment in Civil War -...
ABC 7 El Paso· 4 days agoMy great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in 1820, was one of the more than 200,000 names listed on the African American Civil& ...
Opinion | What They Didn’t Teach Me in Philadelphia, Miss.
Mississippi Free Press· 2 days agoFlorence Mars, a white native of Philadelphia, Miss., wrote in 1977 that “society will act against...
On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil War
The News-Times· 4 days agoMy great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in...
Remembering Willie Mays' fight with housing discrimination
CBS News· 3 days agoThis week, San Francisco is united in honoring the memory of the late, great Willie Mays. "The...