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APPY LEAGUE: Bristol never got to say hey to Willie Mays as segregation prevented star from joining...
Bristol Herald Courier· 4 days agoLegendary sportswriter Gene “Pappy” Thompson recounted the story at least five times during his...
Step Afrika! Pays Swaggering Tribute to Jacob Lawrence (Review)
Metro Weekly· 6 days agoSouth to the industrial North after the outset of World War I. The Migration panels capture resonant...
Willie Mays remembered for breaking barriers on and off the field
KTVU· 4 days agoAs we honor the legacy of Willie Mays baseball career, we can’t forget the steps he took towards...
The US city throwing an epic party for Prince
BBC News· 4 days agoTo commemorate the 40th anniversary of Purple Rain, Prince's hometown is rolling out the purple carpet for fans in a four-day festival. On 27 July 1984,...
Florida to Pay Millions to Victims of Abuses at Notorious Reform School
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMIAMI — The horrors inflicted on hundreds of boys at a notorious reform school in the Florida...
The Origins of Juneteenth and Why It Falls on June 19th
Time via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“There are different ways to look at freedom,” says Berry...
Chicago mayor announces reparations ‘task force’
Courthouse News Service· 6 days 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...
Kimball Shinkoskey: A shameful parade of political servility
The Sun Chronicle· 4 days agoAmerica has experienced some embarrassingly cultic, racist, and repressive moments over the past couple hundred years: The Mormon polygamy experiment in the 19th century; Ku Klux Klan and < ...
Juneteenth is a second Independence Day for America
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBlack Codes hampered freed Americans’ right to conduct business, own property or move freely, thanks to so-called “vagrancy laws.” During the Jim Crow era ...
Opinion: Juneteenth, Haiti and the power of reinvention
CNN.com· 4 days agoAmerica’s Juneteenth story shares much with Haiti’s struggle for autonomy, writes Nadine Pinede, who...
