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Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoFor the formerly enslaved Black people in Texas, Juneteenth meant more than freedom. It meant...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoKnown as Juneteenth in Texas, Emancipation Days symbolized America’s attempt to free the enslaved...
There may not be many of them. But these Southern lesbian bars are still finding ways to thrive
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoFor some customers, the LeSanes are the first lesbian couple...after previously not knowing any...
For Juneteenth, visit these sites to learn about Black history in Austin
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 days agoLater, the Robertson family enslaved people here. That heritage is now clearly interpreted for...
...Hair Braiding’s’ Jocelyn Bioh on Breaking Barriers for Black Woman Playwrights: ‘It’s for Every...
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 days agoApril 30 was a “great day” to be Jocelyn Bioh, playwright of the hit Broadway show “Jaja’s African...
Watch: Top 12 dance songs of the summer
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe 2013 track breathes new life into Teedra Mose’s 2004 single with the same name. A lot of Kaytranada’s songs make you get lost in a trance of beats,...
Not cool with Pride Month? Well, queer creator RaeShanda Lias-Lockhart thinks you should 'mind your...
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 5 days agoShe highlights the absurdity of those who go out of their way to express their disapproval of LGBTQ+...
Elwood Watson: Black Republican doesn’t know his Black history
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· 3 days agoThis month, during an event in Philadelphia supporting Donald Trump and the Republican...Florida...
There’s a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand theBlack experience by...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 days agoOnce ...literature. Griffin’s importance to this genealogy extends beyond middle-schoolers reading “...
"Do what's right": Black Hawk descendent demands Chicago Blackhawks change logo, name
CBS News· 5 days agopeople and wanting to do what's right," said April Holder, the descendant who's also an Indigenous...