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The Perplexing Geography of Abortion Opinion
TPM via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDeep South (pop. 43.5 million) Established by English Barbadian slave lords who championed classical republicanism modeled on slave states of the ancient...
Reconstruction era hero honored with historic marker | New Orleans' Multicultural News Source | The...
Louisiana Weekly· 17 hours agoOver 100 townspeople, elected officials, citizens, and media, a testament to the community’s deep respect for Reverend Arthur Tasker, gathered for a momentous dedication ceremony on May 16, ...
‘No Justice, No Streets’: 4 years after murder, George Floyd Square stands in protest
MPR News· 3 days ago“No one’s free until all free and before I be a slave, you’ll be buried in my grave,” Raycurt...
A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years
New York Times· 6 days agoJohn S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet...
On this day in history, May 23, 1900, Sgt. William H. Carney receives Medal of Honor
Fox News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoOn this day in history, Sgt. William Carney received the Congressional Medal of Honor — the first...
We Must Face Down the Expanding Anti-Reality Industry
Scientific American· 5 days agoBeyond the now-annual threat of smoke that last year blanketed the nation, a thickening haze of lies...
What Hamas Called Its Female Captives, and Why It Matters
The Atlantic· 3 days agoThis week, Israel released an appalling video featuring five female Israeli soldiers taken captive...
Pratt: We work toward peaceful solutions, but we never quite arrive
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via Yahoo News· 5 days agoOthers came on slave boats out of Africa, captured by rival tribes and sold in shiploads to go...
Shadow Drafting | Tiya Miles
New York Review of Books· 4 days ago“To the extent that national progress in the arts and sciences can be attributed to university breakthroughs of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and...
I’m an educator and grandson of Holocaust survivors, and I see public schools failing to give...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThere have been numerous efforts to limit students’ access to books and curricula about certain...