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Mayor declares Staten Island has new landmark: ‘It opened its doors when others turned Black New...
Staten Island Advance· 2 days agoA longtime piece of Oakwood and a special place for New York City’s Black community earned landmark...
Freeing the last slaves: Juneteenth celebrations on Cape Cod include music, food, history
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 6 days agoPeople will have a chance to celebrate Juneteenth at Aptuxcet Trading Post Museum in Bourne with a ...
Opinion | What Frederick Douglass Learned From an Irish Activist
Mississippi Free Press· 2 days agoAs many as 30 Black abolitionists and activists also traveled to Ireland between 1790 and 1860....
How Harriet Tubman relied on nature to bring the enslaved to freedom
Washington Post· 5 days agoCopyright (C) 2024 by Tiya Miles. Of all the abolitionist praise collected and printed as...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSeveral years before Granger made his declaration in Galveston, famed American orator Frederick Douglass, himself a former enslaved man, spoke to an...
Juneteenth: Son of former slave joined Winchester’s Black community
Homenewshere.com· 59 minutes agoIn 1850 in Charleston, S.C., John H. Schmidt purchased a slave named Billy for $300. Three months...
Venciedora H. ‘Vence’ Kane, Baltimore City Schools teacher for more than 50 years, dies
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 2 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 ...
Netflix (NFLX) & Higher Grounds' Partner to Aid Bright Prospects
Zacks via Yahoo Finance· 4 days agoThese include the adaptation of S.A. Cosby’s crime thriller, All the Sinners Bleed, the family drama...
These States Have the Best Crime & Corrections Outcomes
US News & World Report· 4 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 ...
A Juneteenth history lesson, remembrance at Civil War soldier's grave site in Riverhead
Newsday· 5 days agoAmid a bloody Civil War in which the freedom of millions of enslaved people likely hung in the...
