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Trump Says We Should Have Negotiated Around the Civil War. Here’s What Would Have Happened.
Politico via Yahoo News· 5 months agoFormer President Donald Trump thinks history could have been different, if only Abraham Lincoln had...
We need to talk about white America’s ‘victim mentality’
theGrio via AOL· 3 weeks agoOPINION: The outrage over Donald Trump’s conviction has reinvigorated interest in white America’s...
Did the Confederates have a point, kind of? Here's a hint: not really
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 months agoRobert E Lee statue removal Eze Amos/Getty Images There’s no doubt that Australian law professor...
5 things white people need to hear on Juneteenth
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 3 days ago(Adobe Stock Images) OPINION: In the freedom-inspired spirit of Juneteenth, here are five pieces of advice for anyone truly interested in making America...
New documentary details how Ohioans rescued a formerly enslaved man from Kentucky in 1858
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 10 months agoOne hundred and sixty-five years ago — and about three years before the start of the Civil War — a...
Tyrone Anderson 'paved the way' for Black law enforcement officers
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Alabama Highway Patrol hired three Black men in 1972, the first Black troopers to work for the...
Slavery's legacy is written all over North Jersey, if you know where to look
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNew Jersey residents might like to think that, as Northerners, we don't share the South's brutal...
Politicians seek to control classroom discussions about slavery in the US
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA Texas law says slavery cannot be taught as part of the 'true founding' of the United States. Tamir...
'King of the Underground Railroad' Jermaine Wesley Loguen born in Maury Co.
Columbia Daily Herald via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe history of Maury County, Tennessee amazes me, in that it often reaches far beyond the bounds of...
U.S. laws created during slavery remain on the books. A scholar wants us to cite that history.
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAs the story of Juneteenth is told by modern-day historians, enslaved Black people were freed by...