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Granderson: Praising the Jim Crow era? That’s a clear red flag
San Jose Mercury News· 6 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· 3 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, ...
Kimball Shinkoskey: A shameful parade of political servility
The Sun Chronicle· 1 day 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 < ...
'40 Acres and a Lie' details a broken promise of reparations to formerly enslaved people
WLRN Miami· 4 days agoA three-part series from Reveal and the Center for Public Integrity tells the history of “40 Acres...
'Aiming for Freedom': Asheville honors Juneteenth with art, food, music in historic Block
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoHarris painted a picture: standing on a plantation after hearing the news of freedom, his formerly...
Celebrate Juneteenth's history at your local library
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoAll too aware of the stories of cowboys, ranchers, and oilmen that have long dominated the lore of the Lone Star State, Gordon-Reed--herself a Texas native and the descendant of enslaved people ...
Juneteenth: Burned crosses in Miami mark racist past
CBS News via Yahoo News· 4 days ago"The Ballad of Sam Solomon" by Langston Hughes Published in Jim Crow's Last Stand Atlanta: Negro Publication Society of America (1943)
APPY LEAGUE: Bristol never got to say hey to Willie Mays as segregation prevented star from joining...
Bristol Herald Courier· 23 hours agoLegendary sportswriter Gene “Pappy” Thompson recounted the story at least five times during his...
Jewish division over Israel has long history in America
United Press International via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoAmerican Jews have never been entirely unified in their support for Israel or in their visions of...
What Black history is taught in SC? Education department says it’s enough, others disagree
The State McClatchy via AOL· 7 days ago“Some have used this decision to promote a false narrative that South Carolina is avoiding the...
