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'Strength and resilience': Carver Museum launches Juneteenth exhibit ahead of holiday
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMany African Americans leaving the South left behind an oppressive reality, along with the humid...
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 ...
APPY LEAGUE: Bristol never got to say hey to Willie Mays as segregation prevented star from joining...
Bristol Herald Courier· 1 day agoLegendary sportswriter Gene “Pappy” Thompson recounted the story at least five times during his...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 3 days agoUsing the Cold Case Initiative, investigators are probing other killings suspected to be racially-motivated, including Black men killed by the police across the Jim
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...
The US city throwing an epic party for Prince
BBC News· 1 day 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,...
Chicago mayor announces reparations ‘task force’
Courthouse News Service· 4 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...
Opinion: James Lawson and the enduring lessons of nonviolence
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoJames M. Lawson Jr., who died last week, was a legendary hero of the civil rights movement; the...
Historically Black Coconut Grove in Miami nurtured young athletes. Now that legacy is under threat
theGrio via AOL· 5 days agoNichelle Haymore’s family hopes to preserve some of the old neighborhood by reopening the Ace...
Wes Moore and the politics of cannabis
Politico· 3 days agoIn the new documentary, “Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics,” filmmaker Andre Gaines explores how the 22-year-old athlete left the Jim Crow <...
