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5 things to know about Memorial Day, including its evolution and controversies
Houston Chronicle· 3 days agoMemorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But...
Native representation in the Wyoming legislature rests on Ivan Posey's shoulders
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 days agoTake blood quantum, a sort of inversion of the Jim Crow South's one-drop rule, which measures the...
Opinion: Representation matters for building generational wealth - Puget Sound Business Journal
The Business Journals· 16 hours agoOn 95th Street on the South Side of Chicago, just off the freeway and across from a Chicago Transit...
The night West Philly’s Arlington Henderson faced the legendary pitcher Satchel Paige
Philly.com· 3 days agoThe call came so late in the day that Arlington Henderson didn’t have time to tell his parents....
Government compensation for slavery? NJ may lead in answering that question
WPIX New York City, NY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoNEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — In just over a month, on Juneteenth, a preliminary report will release one of...
Brown v. Board of Education Fast Facts
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara· 5 days agoOliver Brown, an African American welder and assistant pastor, brings a case against the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his 9-year-old...
How the Murder of a Black Grocery Store Owner and His Colleagues Galvanized Ida B. Wells'...
Smithsonian Magazine· 3 days agoIda B. Wells sat firmly while the Memphis streetcar man gripped her body and tried to forcibly...
Crailo State Historic Site marks 100 years as part of state historic site system
Albany Times Union· 23 hours agoSaturday, June 1, with a free event that includes a parade down Riverside Avenue featuring the...
70 years after Brown v Board of Education, school funding is the new frontier in education equity
Pennsylvania Capital-Star via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAs the nation commemorates Brown v. Board of Education, Philadelphians are reflecting on their own...
74 Interview: Shep Melnick on Brown at 70 and Integration’s Failure in the North
The 74 via Yahoo News· 6 days agoFor 70 years, the U.S. government has worked to desegregate K–12 education, with Congress, federal...