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EJI unveils statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery
Florida Phoenix via Yahoo News· 5 days agoQuality Journalism for Critical Times The Equal Justice Initiative has unveiled a statue of Martin ...
11 Inspiring Places Around the U.S. to Learn More About Black History
Veranda via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFrom museums to theaters, there's plenty to do in these storied destinations. Here, the best trips...
John Everett Benson, stone carver of memorials and monuments, dies at 84
Washington Post· 3 days agoJohn Everett Benson, a stone carver whose lapidary inscriptions mark the grave of President John F....
What Rollins, Blue Bamboo are proposing for old Winter Park library
WFTV 9 Orlando· 6 days agoRollins College and Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts have each submitted proposals for what happens...
On this day in history, June 19, 1865, the end of slavery is proclaimed in Texas
Fox News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, yet freedom truly arrived for many enslaved people...
Daywatch: A real-world ‘Sesame Street’ in Chicago
Chicago Tribune· 2 days agoWhat was once an empty lot at the southwest corner of Douglas Boulevard and Central Park Avenue has been reinvented as a space reminiscent of a...
John Everett Benson, who chiseled John F. Kennedy’s grave, has died - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 7 days agoThe art Benson practiced is mostly devoted to mortality, the brief span of a life, though it is designed for eternity or something close to it. Benson could spend a day carving a cross; a gravestone ...
GUIDE: Where to cool off to get out of Connecticut’s extreme heat
WTNH-TV New Haven· 6 days agoNEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Multiple Connecticut cities and towns are opening cooling centers as the...
Changes coming to Times-Dispatch publication schedule
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 4 days agoWhile this publication change allows those who publish and deliver the paper to get a day off, we...
Hammond praises local NAACP at Juneteenth celebration
The Times of Northwest Indiana· 4 days agoWith all that has happened in race relations in this country, work remains. That includes developing...