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Gateway - The Root
The Root· 1 day agoIn a new case of white people who do not know how to mind their own business, a racist Karen takes centerstage. Over the weekend, a video was shared across ...
Queen City: The lost Black community swallowed up by The Pentagon
BBC News· 7 hours agoA thriving all-Black community flourished just outside Washington DC until its nearly 1,000...
Smith: Juneteenth must remind us of our shared humanity
Birmingham News· 2 hours agoRoughly 2,000 Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas on June 19, 1865, and declared that...
Brevard history lesson: Who were Harry and Harriette Moore, slain civil rights activists?
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoWhen were the Moores killed? The Moores were killed on the night of Dec. 25, 1951, when a bomb...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoThe problem with Donald Trump is that white people, (I know, not all white people, but a lot of y’all) love him. Are ...
Larry Tye: Louis Armstrong liberated himself and his music form in the Second City
Chicago Tribune· 9 hours agoIt’s fitting that today — on Juneteenth National Independence Day — we look back 99 years ago to the...
Why Juneteenth didn’t actually end slavery in Texas
Washington Post· 9 hours agoIn 1903, a Black man walked into an office in a small town in Texas, seeking any news about whether slavery had ended. The earnest inquiry from the man,...
Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. is unveiled in Montgomery
Nebraska Examiner via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoThe Equal Justice Initiative has unveiled a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Alabama,...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoMuch like cornrows, hips, lips, asses and black men who play basketball, white people love some Martin Luther King Jr. Once a year, they co-opt the holiday ...
Juneteenth 2024: Who is working? What is open?
WPIX New York City, NY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoHowever, this was not enforced in many places until the end of the Civil War, and, the Associated Press writes, white people who profited from unpaid...
