Search results
What Is Juneteenth? Everything You Need to Know about This Important Piece of American History
Blavity via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAs of 2021, Juneteenth is officially celebrated nationally on June the 19th. However, this day of...
Military Book Review Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
Strategy Page· 8 hours agoIn this new volume, she gives us a ground-breaking, compelling, balanced, and altogether remarkable look at what she calls “the most remarkable political about-face in American history,” James ...
The Virginia NAACP Files Lawsuit Against School Board Ruling To Reinstate Confederate Leaders’ Names
Blavity via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe NAACP Virginia State Conference and others have filed a federal lawsuit against the decision to...
Virginia school board sued after reinstating Confederate leaders' names at two public high schools
Fox News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe Virginia NAACP and five students filed a lawsuit against a school board's decision to restore...
Adult education: How a Duval County teacher fought the state and won, but carries the battle scars
Florida Politics· 2 hours agoThen Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran changed the game and...
Texas lawmakers want to end state holiday commemorating Confederate veterans
KRGV Rio Grande Valley· 1 day agoJarvis Johnson, D-Houston, on Wednesday called for Texas to end its commemoration as a state...
Virginia NAACP files suit against school board that restored names of Confederate leaders
NBC Universal via AOL· 4 days agoConfederate names after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, fueling a national...
Parades, poetry and a free Scarface concert: 12 ways to observe Juneteenth in Austin
Austin American-Statesman· 3 days agoWith festivals, concerts, parades and lectures, Austin has plenty of events marking the federal...
Rights group sues Virginia school district over Confederate names
Reuters· 4 days agoThe move by Shenandoah County Public School sends a...accuses the school board of violating the First and 14th amendments of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the Civil Rights ...
‘Better than watching any movie’: Journalist Karen DeWitt reflects on storied career
Politico· 23 hours agoLatimer had two and half times as much cash on hand as Bowman: $2.5 million to $1 million. — Emily...