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Black Deer festival review: Newcomers hold their own against heavyweight headliners
The Independent US via AOL· 20 hours agoFamilies gather at the main stage at Black Deer festival (Caitlin Mogridge) Crow admires the British...
Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoFor the formerly enslaved Black people in Texas, Juneteenth meant more than freedom. It meant...
Black voters: Make clear choices, not false equivalencies
The Hill· 20 hours agoTo everyone trying to “both sides” the 2024 presidential election by claiming Joe Biden and Donald...
More Black and Latino Students Admitted to New York’s Elite High Schools
New York Times· 13 hours agoThe percentage of Black and Latino students in the eight schools increased modestly to 12 percent,...
Juneteenth: Black Congress members from Ohio discuss progress and problems since holiday’s...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer· 12 hours agoIt took more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation for...
Letters to the Editor: Did Byron Donalds really 'praise Jim Crow'?
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 3 days agoBruce Thompson, Huntington Beach .. To the editor: Thanks to Granderson for his excellent columns,...
Watson: The truth about Jim Crow
The Longview News-Journal· 7 days agoByron Donalds made the attention-grabbing assertion that Black families were stronger and more conservative under the Jim Crow era. “You see, during Jim...
Grants available for Black-owned businesses along Route 66 in Illinois
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo Finance· 1 day agoThe road from Chicago to California that runs through Springfield still operates and is coming up on its 100-year anniversary in 2026. The Black ...
Chicago mayor announces reparations ‘task force’
Courthouse News Service· 1 day agoJohnson’s office said the task force will study the ways Black Chicagoans continue to be impacted by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws. Working...
Blow: Juneteenth marked end to slavery; freedom’s taken longer | HeraldNet.com
Everett Herald· 34 minutes agoTo start, there is some debate over whether most of the estimated 250,000 enslaved people in Texas at the time didn’t know about the Emancipation Proclamation.