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"Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us"
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMichael Harriot Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Fatima Michon As an '80s baby that carved...
It's Claimed that Only 1.6% of US Citizens Owned Slaves In 1860. We Ran the Numbers
Snopes via Yahoo News· 2 months agoTwitter/Wallace Moura/Getty Images On April 2, 2024, the claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned...
DeSantis appointee to Disney board taught seminar using discredited research claiming White people...
CNN via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAn appointee by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to an oversight board of Disney’s special tax district...
Historic sites are reckoning with New York's slave-owning past. Here's how
Poughkeepsie Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen New York's third governor, Morgan Lewis, would return to his estate in Hyde Park in the early...
My great-great-grandfather owned slaves in Kentucky. Here's what I'm doing about it.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt felt like a kick in the stomach. Exploring an ancestry website, I discovered an 1860 Slave...
In the 1800s, the American Colonization Society relocated thousands of freed Black Americans to West...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSlave-owning US presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and James Madison, as well as leaders...
Op-Ed: Why former slave states became the foundation for American gun culture
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA museum exhibit showing the coat worn by Confederate General Robert E. Lee when he surrendered to...
As Black History Month starts, can’t we resolve to be honest about Missouri’s past? | Opinion
Kansas City Star McClatchy Articles via AOL· 1 year agoOur nation heads into this Black History Month with nerves raw yet again. Last Friday, footage of...
Opinion/Stead: Juneteenth is a holiday for all of us
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe newer federal holiday of Juneteenth will have its official observance tomorrow. Just like any other holiday, some offices and businesses will be...
Jill Scott's remixed national anthem goes viral after performance at Essence Festival
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJill Scott performed her rewritten "Star-Spangled Banner" at the 2023 Essence Festival at the...