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'Aiming for Freedom': Asheville honors Juneteenth with art, food, music in historic Block
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 1 day ago"Here, on the Block, because it holds the history and the legacy of Black resilience. You think...
Juneteenth: Burned crosses in Miami mark racist past - ABC17NEWS
ABC17 NEWS· 2 days agoAfter Juneteenth, Jim Crow laws sprang up along with the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate Black people, including right here...Juneteenth is about being free ...
100-year-old historically Black schoolhouse gets restored to its former glory
WJZY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe Siloam School was built around 1924 by the Black community in Mallard Creek for Black children....
APPY LEAGUE: Bristol never got to say hey to Willie Mays as segregation prevented star from joining...
Bristol Herald Courier· 24 hours agoLegendary sportswriter Gene “Pappy” Thompson recounted the story at least five times during his...
Reparations how? Mayor Johnson's task force is beside the point on what's needed to fix Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times· 23 hours agoSince then, there have been scores of national proposals to compensate the once-enslaved, or their descendants, and, as time passed, those who suffered under 20th century Jim
San Francisco Giants Legend Willie Mays Dies at 93
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSan Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays died at age 93 on Tuesday, his family announced.“My father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones,”...
Juneteenth: Burned crosses in Miami mark racist past
CBS News· 4 days agoJuneteenth (June 19th) marks the end of slavery in Texas and is the day the country commemorates the ending of slavery and freedom for African Americans....
Willie Mays: Saying a final goodbye to baseball’s ‘Say hey kid’
United Press International via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoWillie Mays, who died Wednesday at age 93, was not only the greatest baseball player of the last 80...
Rickwood Field Was a Scene of Change for Jackie Robinson and Hank Aaron
Sports Illustrated· 20 hours agoThe small room will have to do. Rickwood Field was built in 1910, before electric traffic lights,...
20 books by Black authors you should read this Juneteenth
Fox News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoShe defended Martin Luther Kind, argued in Brown vs. The Board of Education, and helped eliminate ...