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How the Murder of a Black Grocery Store Owner and His Colleagues Galvanized Ida B. Wells'...
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoIda B. Wells sat firmly while the Memphis streetcar man gripped her body and tried to forcibly...
Opinion | Why Red Lobster’s downfall hits differently for Black communities
MSNBC· 6 days agoBill Darden opened the first Red Lobster restaurant south of Orlando, Florida, in 1968 just a few...
5 things to know about Memorial Day, including its evolution and controversies
Olean Times Herald· 4 hours agoNORFOLK, Va. — Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members,...
Here’s where the site of a new Florida Black history museum may be
Tampa Bay Times· 3 days agoA state task force Tuesday backed a St. Johns County location for a Black history museum over...
Beshear makes Juneteenth a Kentucky holiday, protects natural hair in state workplaces
Kentucky Lantern via Yahoo News· 2 days agoGov. Andy Beshear on Thursday signed executive orders making Juneteenth an executive branch holiday...
At Southold nature preserve, a symphony of bird sounds - The Suffolk Times
The Suffolk Times· 1 day agoOn a sunny Tuesday morning last week, the Sound View Dunes Park in Southold was humming with an...
MLB Expands Aid Programs to Support Negro Leagues Players
Time via Yahoo Sports· 3 days agoWhile there were other Black-only leagues players participated in, the Negro National League was a...
Cornel West joins DC reparations protest against Wells Fargo Bank
Fox News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWest, a longtime professor of philosophy and other disciplines at Harvard and Princeton...
Can Medicare Money Protect Doctors From Abortion Crimes? It Worked Before, Desegregating Hospitals
US News & World Report· 3 days agoFor guidance, the justices can look to the very beginning of Medicare in the 1960s, when the promise of federal funding finally persuaded hospitals in the Jim Crow ...
Five Best: Books on Diasporas
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day ago1. The diaspora of André Aciman’s Sephardic Jewish family was not atypical: Escaping Spain in the 16th century, they landed in Italy, moved on to...