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Rumor Says Black People Couldn't Buy Vanilla Ice Cream Under Jim Crow. Here's the Truth
Snopes via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBettmann/Getty Images A viral claim has made its way from literary and oral retellings to the...
MLB at Rickwood Field: Baseball's latest jewel event was an opportunity to honor the past, celebrate...
Yahoo Sports· 4 hours agoReturning to a place rooted in harrowing history that occurred in the not-so-distant past brings up...
At age 50, MD nonprofit's National History Day keeps pushing students to seek difficult truths -...
The Daily Record· 5 days agoBui, of Temple, Texas, is one of half a million young scholars taking part in this year’s National ...
Congress Rejects Republican Effort To Restore Confederate ‘Mammy’ Statue To Arlington National...
Blavity via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe U.S. House of Representatives narrowly voted to block a move to restore a controversial monument...
As Tyla States She’s ‘Never Denied Her Blackness,’ Please Stop Asking Her About It
Blavity via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSouth African singer Tyla, one of the biggest, new global music acts of the moment, did an interview...
'Aiming for Freedom': Asheville honors Juneteenth with art, food, music in historic Block
Gannett via AOL· 2 days ago"Here, on the Block, because it holds the history and the legacy of Black resilience. You think...
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, ...
After Willie Mays' death, Rickwood Field game takes on renewed significance
CBS News via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoWillie Mays began his professional baseball career with the Birmingham Black Barons, who barnstormed...
Knoxville depended more on enslaved people than history suggests | Know Your Knox
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBlack Americans gained some civil rights and political representation during Reconstruction, but...
100-year-old historically Black schoolhouse gets restored to its former glory
WJZY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe Siloam School was built around 1924 by the Black community in Mallard Creek for Black children....