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Carver National Monument celebrates historic Jesup Agricultural Wagon
KSNF Joplin via Yahoo News· 1 day agoDIAMOND, Mo. — One local national park is ensuring a piece of agricultural history is recognized...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 6 days agoIn 1952 my grandfather built a house for his wife and six children in a small South Carolina town. The house had four bedrooms, one bathroom, a dining room and a living room you could enter ...
$4.25M grant to go to restoration of segregation-era school building on South Carolina campus
WLTX-TV Columbia· 4 days agoThe Florence C. Benson Elementary School buildings at 226 Bull Street in Columbia will soon undergo...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 6 days agoOn Wednesday (August 16), educators, students and labor leaders marched to the School Board of Miami-Dade County to protest Florida’s new standards for teaching Black history in public schools ...
Sandites have impressive showing in Kelley summer basketball league
Tulsa World· 6 days agoThe Sandites dropped their first two games to Owasso and Union but went on to win out the rest of...
Juneteenth events across our hometowns
WDBJ 7 Roanoke· 5 days agoTake a look at some events across our hometowns celebrating this holiday.
Mayor displeased by defacing of cultural street painting
The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Ind. via Yahoo News· 6 days agoHaute Mayor Brandon Sakbun was not pleased when a vandal defaced a street painting celebrating Juneteenth over the weekend. A motorist squealed his tires over the image just outside the < ...
On Juneteenth, remember the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Chicago Sun-Times· 5 days agoWhen Terence Crutcher, a father of four who sang in his church choir, was shot and killed by police in 2016 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his twin sister, Dr. Tiffany Crutcher, saw history repeating itself ...
Especially Texan: Juneteenth
The Gilmer Mirror· 7 days agoLegacy of Texas is the official store of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). Especially Texan is a weekly dive into historical topics that make up the tapestry of Texas history. On ...
'Celebration of freedom' | The history of Juneteenth at Indy's Crown Hill Cemetery
WTHR Indianapolis· 5 days agoAs we celebrate Juneteenth, we are taking a closer look at several Hoosiers who played a pivotal...