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Juneteenth Has Gone Mainstream. Should Everyone Be Celebrating?
Capital B via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThis story was originally published in 2022 and has been updated. Juneteenth has been celebrated for...
Juneteenth 2024: How Oklahoma's unique history still affects residents today
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoAfrican American slavery was established in the...
Railway museum in Zambia offers a clue to the African country’s rich Jewish history
Sun-Sentinel· 1 day ago“A tiny population influential beyond its numbers,” is how Oxford historian Hugh Macmillan described...
The history and significance of Juneteenth
WAVY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJuneteenth—also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, or the country's second Independence Day—stands as an enduring symbol of Black American freedom.
Why I Celebrate Juneteenth - And Response
The Chattanoogan· 2 days agoThroughout history slavery has existed. On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued by executive order the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, to become effective ...
Step Afrika! Pays Swaggering Tribute to Jacob Lawrence (Review)
Metro Weekly· 4 days agoThe Migration panels capture resonant...at chronicling African American life and history in his art,...
National historian, Maine leaders discuss need to better understand our ‘hard histories’
Maine Morning Star via Yahoo News· 3 days agoCivil rights historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries said Americans love nostalgia, not history. Nostalgia is...
State to honor Lumbee Tribe with Historical Marker | Robesonian
The Robesonian· 4 days agoThe Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is one of the largest American Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River. Located in southeastern North Carolina, along the Lumber River, tribal ...
Leadership: Plan B From Hell
Strategy Page· 6 days agoJuly 4, 2019: One thing the leadership of ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) and its predecessor, the Iraq branch of al Qaeda, had in common was the skill and professionalism of its ...
The extraordinary lives of New England’s Black whaling captains - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 3 days agoThe first known sea captain of color, he opened the door for others like him who freely worked the...
