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What is Juneteenth, and how did it become a state and federal holiday?
The Republican· 18 hours ago...Juneteenth celebrates the date of June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger and soldiers...
Byron Donalds implied Black people were better off under Jim Crow. So we checked.
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoOPINION: We fact-checked Republican Byron Donalds' claims about Black families, conservative values...
A Black photographer added himself to places where history didn’t want him | CNN
CNN.com· 20 hours agoConceived by British photographer Lee Shulman and Senegalese self-portraitist Diop, the series sees...
Tuscaloosa's 'Bloody Tuesday' Changed the Course of History
Time via AOL· 1 day agoCredit - Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images...Tuscaloosa, Ala., begged city and state...
Stevie Wonder’s Ghanaian citizenship reflects long-standing links between African Americans and the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThis was also the era of the anti-apartheid movement, and African Americans were at the forefront of lobbying the US government for the ...
WS/FCS' pilot African-American studies class opened minds, started conversations on race, students...
Winston-Salem Journal· 3 days agoHairston, a senior who takes classes at Mount Tabor High School and the Career Center...North...
Sputnik Monroe, a wrestler in Tennessee during the Jim Crow era, advanced civil rights
Knoxville News Sentinel· 4 days agoThere were many heroes of the Civil Rights movement in Memphis − Martin Luther King Jr., of course...
55 vintage photos show what life looked like in the 1920s
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSegregation...
Blacks, youngest voters choose 'uncommitted' over Clinton
CNN.com· 6 hours agoThe racial disparity could be a bad sign for Clinton going into the South Carolina primary, where half of all Democratic voters are black. Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama -- along with their surrogates ...
Pensacola Juneteenth celebrations include festivals, concerts and 'family reunion.'
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMcIntosh, vice president of the Pensacola civil rights organization Movement for Change, referring to the country's embrace of Juneteenth...It was a point ...