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13 selected to lead Tampa’s Racial Reconciliation Committee
WFLA via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoLuis Viera about it during WFLA’s Rooted in Progress Black History Month special. In 2020, the NAACP...
California reparations payouts on hold, but state moves toward apology for slavery
Fox News· 6 days agoThe California Senate held up plans to dole out reparations payouts to its citizens, but the...
Gov. Kay Ivey makes Juneteenth Alabama state holiday for 2024
Alabama Reflector via Yahoo News· 3 days agoKay Ivey sent to state department leaders on Monday The memo identifies the state holidays for the...
UK owes Caribbean nations £205bn in reparations, says Cambridge academic
Daily Telegraph· 4 days agoBritain owes Caribbean nations more than £200 billion in slavery reparations, a leading academic has...
How a ‘border ruffian’ who supported slavery got a monument honoring him in a KC park
The Kansas City Star· 2 days agoWhat's Your KCQ is a collaboration between The Star and the Kansas City Public Library series that answers your questions the history, people, places and culture that make Kansas City unique ...
Beshear makes Juneteenth a Kentucky holiday, protects natural hair in state workplaces
Kentucky Lantern via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoGov. Andy Beshear on Thursday signed executive orders making Juneteenth an executive branch holiday...
About America’s Black Holocaust Museum
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoAmerica’s Black Holocaust Museum is the first and only museum of its kind in the U.S. It’s an unflinching look at more than 400 years of slavery,...
A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years
New York Times· 17 hours agoJohn S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet...
'Slavery' in Socorro? One of the last surviving participants in a U.S. program for migrant workers...
ABC 7 El Paso· 2 days agoMemories of those first moments in America came rushing back for Corral this month during a...
Philadelphia launches reparations task force
Axios· 13 hours agoThe big picture: Philly joins a growing number of states and municipalities examining possible reparations — a once-fringe idea that's gone mainstream,...
