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Alvin Pearsall played major role in Polk County high school basketball after integration
The Ledger via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoThe Jim Crow era was still very much a reality in the segregated South, with separate high schools...
Juneteenth: Burned crosses in Miami mark racist past
CBS News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAfter Juneteenth, Jim Crow laws sprang up along with the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate Black people, including right here...Juneteenth is about being free...
Built to maintain segregation, grants to help renovate some SC 'equalization schools'
The Post and Courier· 5 days agoIn some ways, the old Edgewood School is a memory of the Jim Crow regime that once oversaw education...
As Tyla States She’s ‘Never Denied Her Blackness,’ Please Stop Asking Her About It
Blavity via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSouth African singer Tyla, one of the biggest, new global music acts of the moment, did an interview...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 5 days agoUsing the Cold Case Initiative, investigators are probing other killings suspected to be racially-motivated, including Black men killed by the police across the Jim
Juneteenth: Burned crosses in Miami mark racist past
CBS News· 6 days agoJuneteenth (June 19th) marks the end of slavery in Texas and is the day the country commemorates the ending of slavery and freedom for African Americans....
Byron Donalds and the myth of the broken Black family | New Orleans' Multicultural News Source | The...
Louisiana Weekly· 3 days agoBlack Republican Byron Donalds has come under fire for saying that “during Jim Crow, the Black family was together.” The Florida congressman made the remarks ...
Marvel's Blade Reboot Was Developed as a Period Piece
Comic Book· 3 days agoMarvel Studios has a history of period pieces. 2011's pulpy Captain America: The First Avenger took...
At age 50, MD nonprofit's National History Day keeps pushing students to seek difficult truths -...
The Daily Record· 6 days agoBui, of Temple, Texas, is one of half a million young scholars taking part in this year’s National...
San Francisco Giants Legend Willie Mays Dies at 93
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSan Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays died at age 93 on Tuesday, his family announced.“My father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones,”...