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We must remember that White House history is Black history. This is some of that story.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.” First lady Michelle Obama’s 2016...
The lesser-known history of the Monroe Doctrine
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSmith's Plantation Library of Congress/Digiital Public Library of America Today marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, celebrated in history...
‘Will He Lynch?’ and the making of the white man
theGrio via AOL· 2 years agoOPINION: Perhaps the first viral digital hoax, we celebrate white Juneteenth with a long-overdue response to the (fake) Willie Lynch Letter explaining...
We need to talk about white America’s ‘victim mentality’
theGrio via AOL· 4 weeks agoOPINION: The outrage over Donald Trump’s conviction has reinvigorated interest in white America’s...
The Illiberalism at America’s Core
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFor much of the twentieth century, the American right was suspiciously absent from historians’ grand narratives of the United States. In the early Cold...
South Carolina’s Democratic Primary Is 400 Years in the Making
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/ReutersThe Democratic National Committee’s...
Black History/White Lies: 5 ways Black people built America
theGrio via AOL· 4 months agoOPINION: Part three of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores Black people’s contributions to...
How America’s Rich Legacy of Fear and Hatred Fuels the Conspiracy Theories of Today
TPM via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThis article was adapted from The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia....
Florida’s Black history standards are even worse than reported
theGrio via AOL· 11 months agoOPINION: While critics have singled out the part of Florida’s social studies standards referencing...
