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The 20 Best Documentaries on Netflix
Vulture· 5 days agoWhen we fire up Netflix, we do it to learn about the impossible, exceptional, traumatizing, and historical real world as much as to experience fictional...
How Fates Diverged in Hispaniola
Foreign Policy Magazine· 3 days agoThe highlights this week: The Dominican Republic reelects its popular president while neighboring Haiti prepares for a U.N.-backed security intervention,...
Government compensation for slavery? NJ may lead in answering that question
WPIX New York City, NY via Yahoo News· 7 days agoNEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — In just over a month, on Juneteenth, a preliminary report will release one of...
Juneteenth: What's open & what's closed on America’s newest federal holiday
TheStreet.com· 5 hours agoJuneteenth commemorates the end of slavery after the U.S. Civil War, and while government buildings and the NYSE are closed, most retail stores are open. Banks, federal offices ...
What Hamas Called Its Female Captives, and Why It Matters
The Atlantic· 2 days agoThis week, Israel released an appalling video featuring five female Israeli soldiers taken captive...
A new task force is studying what reparations would look like in Philadelphia. Here’s what to know
Philly.com· 6 days agoThe Philadelphia Reparations Task Force has officially launched. The 10-member committee, which is...
12 Historic Facts That'll Blow Your Sense of Time Out of the Water
MediaFeed via AOL· 3 days agoHave you ever stumbled across a couple of historical facts and related them to one another, only to...
Culpeper NAACP to host Juneteenth celebration
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star· 6 days agoThe Culpeper NAACP will hold a Juneteenth celebration at Yowell Meadow Park on June 15, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The organization will celebrate the federal holiday, marking the end of
While celebrating Haitian heritage, don’t forget Haiti is in crisis thanks to American guns |...
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt’s also a Miami problem. May is Haitian Heritage Month and rightfully highlights our beautiful...
Juneteenth proclaimed state holiday again in Alabama, after bill to make it permanent falters
San Antonio Express-News· 7 days agoAlabama Gov. Kay Ivey has again authorized Juneteenth— the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — as a state holiday, while legislative efforts to make ...
