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What is Juneteenth, and how did it become a state and federal holiday?
The Republican· 2 days agoApproaching this year’s Juneteenth holiday, MassLive asked readers and staff to identify Black...
Like Netflix’s popular Hit Man? Then watch these 5 great Glen Powell movies
Digital Trends via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoBut beyond that, the movie is an exploration of life in America during the late 1960s, as the...
Biden Loves to Tell Tall Tales. We Cut Them Down to Size.
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoWASHINGTON — In President Joe Biden’s telling, he was a teenage civil rights activist, a former...
Palm Springs history: Difficult times in the center of town
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoAbatement was a fancy word. In the 1960s in California and elsewhere, it often meant burning....
The upside-down American flag goes mainstream as a form of right-wing protest
WUSF 89.7· 7 days agoAfter former President Donald Trump’s historic felony conviction, many of his supporters protested...
What University Presidents Can Learn From Past Protests
Time via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIn contrast, we might look at another period of student unrest: the 1960s. During that tumultuous...
What’s on TV tonight: Putin vs Greenpeace, Soccer Aid, The Piano Final, and more
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoOn Thin Ice: Putin vs Greenpeace BBC Two, 9pm & 9.30pm In 2013, a Greenpeace ship called the Arctic...
Why Juneteenth, the U.S.'s Second Independence Day, Is a Federal Holiday
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoJuneteenth quickly gained traction across the country, with 59 percent of American adults reporting that they knew “a lot” or “some” about the holiday in 2022, up from 37 percent in 2021, according ...
Trump + Murdoch = Another Racially Toxic Presidential Campaign
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 days agoText messages released by Congresswoman Liz Cheney and the committee that investigated the...
America is again stuck in darkness. Queer people of color have always known the way out
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe idea came from the late Frank...lost but looked to the civil rights movement for how to keep...