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The beautiful vision of Boston’s Freedom Schools
WBUR Boston· 1 day agoBoston Public Schools are in trouble. As an educator, when I look at the problems they are facing during the current school year, I see overcrowded and...
When Was the First Black Barbie Made? All About the Doll's History
People via Yahoo News· 2 days agoShe landed the job, becoming the first Black designer for Barbie in 1976 — and all six of the...
Civil Rights History: Remembering the Monson Motor Lodge Protest 60 years later
WJAX via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMartin Luther King Jr. and others lunch. The owner notoriously poured acid in the pool after the activists jumped in. Last year, on the 59th anniversary, Action News Jax talked ...
Martin Luther King Jr. on ‘The other America’
Minnesota Reformer via Yahoo News· 2 days agoEditor’s note: To commemorate Juneteenth, we share excerpts of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at Stanford University in April 1967. We hear...
LGBTQ Pride Month flags vandalized near Stonewall National Monument, police say
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“We love the LGBTQ+ community and celebrate them during Pride and all year round,” the mayor wrote...
Juneteenth 2024: How Oklahoma's unique history still affects residents today
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoWhy Oklahoma's history matters Today, descendants are still fighting for recognition from the...
10 Movies That Celebrate Black Joy to Stream on Juneteenth
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJuneteenth is a time to celebrate the joy of the Black experience as much as the struggle. And...
Knoxville depended more on enslaved people than history suggests | Know Your Knox
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoThough Knoxville has often been described as a more racially tolerant Southern city, its history of...
Sixty years ago, a photographer rolled with a biker gang. Now his life is a movie
Los Angeles Times· 2 days agoFor two days in the fall of 2022, Danny Lyon was transported back to his distant biker past. The...
Liberalism Has the Ideas–but Does It Have the Will to Impose Them?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe editors ask if today’s liberalism is equipped to win “this battle,” too sprawling a question...