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Mayor declares Staten Island has new landmark: ‘It opened its doors when others turned Black New...
Staten Island Advance· 5 days agoA longtime piece of Oakwood and a special place for New York City’s Black community earned landmark...
Opinion | What Frederick Douglass Learned From an Irish Activist
Mississippi Free Press· 5 days agoAs many as 30 Black abolitionists and activists also traveled to Ireland between 1790 and 1860....
Inside Project 2025's attack on reproductive rights: Mifepristone and alternative abortion pills
Media Matters· 27 minutes agoAt least 31 partner organizations of the Project 2025 initiative have published written content,...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSeveral years before Granger made his declaration in Galveston, famed American orator Frederick Douglass, himself a former enslaved man, spoke to an...
New York’s Judicial Elections Are a Lot Like the Subway
New York Magazine· 1 day agoAs we head into Primary Day, thousands of New Yorkers in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan will...
These States Have the Best Crime & Corrections Outcomes
US News & World Report· 7 days agoHome to the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland is known for its blue crabs and the city of Baltimore, a major historic trading port, baseball destination and birthplace of the national anthem. As one ...
Venciedora H. ‘Vence’ Kane, Baltimore City Schools teacher for more than 50 years, dies
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 5 days agoVenciedora H. “Vence” Kane, a retired Baltimore City Schools teacher active in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, died of respiratory failure June 4 at Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care Northwest ...
Opinion: Juneteenth has a particularly poignant history in Utah. It’s our responsibility to tell the...
The Salt Lake Tribune· 5 days agoThe Juneteenth holiday celebrates a crucial moment in the American struggle for freedom and justice....
Nathan Hare, scholar who led fight for Black studies, dies at 91
Washington Post· 2 days agoNathan Hare, a scholar and writer who helped shape Black empowerment movements in the 1960s,...
Our Fourth of July: Celebrating Emancipation in the Salt City
The Post-Standard· 6 days agoThe City of Syracuse hosted its 36th annual Juneteenth Celebration in Clinton Square on June 15th....