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MLB at Rickwood Field: Baseball's latest jewel event was an opportunity to honor the past, celebrate...
Yahoo Sports· 7 hours agoFor a young Mays, born and raised in nearby Fairfield, Alabama, Rickwood was the pinnacle of the...
Granderson: Praising the Jim Crow era? That’s a clear red flag
San Jose Mercury News· 7 days agoJim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B....
Yuen: Memories of the Jim Crow South haunted a Minnesota man. Then the nightmares terrorized his...
Tribune via AOL· 4 days agoNightmares afflicted the father of Lee Hawkins Jr. and awoke his son, then just a little boy growing up in the St. Paul suburb of Maplewood. His dad would jostle out of his sleep screaming, ...
'Aiming for Freedom': Asheville honors Juneteenth with art, food, music in historic Block
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoHarris painted a picture: standing on a plantation after hearing the news of freedom, his formerly...
Kimball Shinkoskey: A shameful parade of political servility
The Sun Chronicle· 2 days agoAmerica has experienced some embarrassingly cultic, racist, and repressive moments over the past couple hundred years: The Mormon polygamy experiment in the 19th century; Ku Klux Klan and < ...
Juneteenth: Burned crosses in Miami mark racist past
CBS News via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"The Ballad of Sam Solomon" by Langston Hughes Published in Jim Crow's Last Stand Atlanta: Negro Publication Society of America (1943)
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 7 days agoKnown as Juneteenth in Texas, Emancipation Days symbolized America’s attempt to free the enslaved...
APPY LEAGUE: Bristol never got to say hey to Willie Mays as segregation prevented star from joining...
Bristol Herald Courier· 2 days agoLegendary sportswriter Gene “Pappy” Thompson recounted the story at least five times during his...
Wes Moore and the politics of cannabis
Politico· 4 days agoIn the new documentary, “Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics,” filmmaker Andre Gaines explores how the 22-year-old athlete left the Jim Crow <...
'40 Acres and a Lie' details a broken promise of reparations to formerly enslaved people
WLRN Miami· 5 days agoA three-part series from Reveal and the Center for Public Integrity tells the history of “40 Acres...