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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...
At age 50, MD nonprofit's National History Day keeps pushing students to seek difficult truths -...
The Daily Record· 4 days agoBui, of Temple, Texas, is one of half a million young scholars taking part in this year’s National...
Willie Mays: Saying a final goodbye to baseball’s ‘Say hey kid’ - UPI.com
UPI· 2 days ago1 of 5 | In this file photo, Hall of Fame San Francisco Giants player Willie Mays doffs his cap...
Willie Mays remembered for breaking barriers on and off the field
KTVU via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAs we honor the legacy of Willie Mays' baseball career, we can’t forget the steps he took towards civil rights during the height of a controversial time in our history.
The US city throwing an epic party for Prince
BBC News· 22 hours 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,...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 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
Diane Oliver’s Fiction From Both Sides of the Color Line
The Nation· 4 days agoHow do you make art about racism? Neighbors, then, is that troublesome artifact: an artist’s...
Celebrate Juneteenth's history at your local library
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoAll too aware of the stories of cowboys, ranchers, and oilmen that have long dominated the lore of the Lone Star State, Gordon-Reed--herself a Texas native and the descendant of enslaved people ...
J.D. Vance for Trump’s VP? Here are the pros and cons of the 8 candidates on his shortlist
Politico via Yahoo News· 4 days agoHe also lacks the polish of some other VP contenders, recently drawing a firestorm for saying that Black families were “together” during the Jim Crow era ...
Opinion: Juneteenth, Haiti and the power of reinvention
CNN.com· 2 days agoAmerica’s Juneteenth story shares much with Haiti’s struggle for autonomy, writes Nadine Pinede, who...
