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Hidden History in Maywood: Discover local stop on the Underground Railroad
FOX News Chicago· 1 day agoHistory is often hidden in plain sight. Suburban Maywood is home to a stop on the Underground...
Indigenous painter Jeffrey Gibson takes the big stage
Santa Fe New Mexican· 6 days agoAs Americans debate downplaying historical racism and genocide in classroom lessons, a strikingly...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoDuring his now infamous appearance at a National Action Network event honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President Biden took aim at Republicans for not passing a Democratic policing reform ...
DAVID SHRIBMAN: America could use a hero right about now
Goshen News· 6 hours agoIs America losing its heroes? One of them, Robert Persichitti, 102, died en route to the...
Local leaders pushing to make Juneteenth a state-recognized holiday in Florida
ABC Action News Tampa Bay· 1 day agoJuneteenth is the celebration of the day the Union Army finally made it all the way to Galveston, Texas, on June 19th, 1865, to set free the remaining African American enslaved people. Since ...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoBlack News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoWhile most people agree that they have the right not to patronize people or entities with whom they disagree, I don’t support the party that attempted to cancel democracy, election integrity ...
On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil War
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoMy great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in...
David Oyelowo on playing justice seekers, peacekeepers and men on a mission
NPR· 1 day agoIt wasn't until many years later, actually, as I was digging into my research for Bass Reeves that I came to find out that 1 in 3 cowboys was Black. In fact, the word cowboy ...
7 Juneteenth shows and movies to check out with a VPN
TechRadar· 1 day agoJune 19th, or Juneteenth, marks the end of more than 200 years of slavery in the United States....
