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How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoSeveral years before Granger made his declaration in Galveston, famed American orator Frederick Douglass, himself a former enslaved man, spoke to an...
What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBorn into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of the leading abolitionists in America....
Need a 4th of July caption? 30 patriotic quotes to honor America and its history
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoIt means looking out for yourself by looking out for...
5 Black History Landmarks in the U.S. You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
AFAR· 2 days agoMuseums like Nashville’s National Museum of African American Music and the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, are some of the best places to learn about Black ...
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Raw Story· 25 minutes agoI’d like to use as a subject from which to speak this afternoon, the other America. One America is beautiful for our situation. This America is the habitat of millions of people who have food ...
Queen City: The lost Black community swallowed up by The Pentagon
BBC News· 6 hours agoA thriving all-Black community flourished just outside Washington DC until its nearly 1,000...
Red states strike deals to show controversial conservative videos in schools
New Hampshire Union Leader· 3 days agoA privately funded effort to use disputed videos to teach conservative values in public schools is...
Harrisburg’s William Howard Day made mark as pioneering civil rights leader | Column
The Patriot-News· 4 days agoWilliam Howard Day was a significant 19th-century Black civil rights figure who made his mark in...
Review | Nell Irvin Painter’s understanding of America is beautiful and bracing. We should listen.
Washington Post· 7 days agoIt’s no small thing that in an era filled with grievances based on injuries that are sometimes...
For Juneteenth, first Black U.S. astronaut recalls death threats — and lessons learned
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAfrican American history and culture has been his key preoccupation. He's done upward of 18,000...