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Opinion: White nationalism is attacking racial equity. All who believe in liberty must act
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 10 months agoKevin McGruder is an associate professor of History at Antioch College. The era that we are...
The Perils and Promise of America's Third Reconstruction
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCredit - Illustration by Ajubel Studio for TIME W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps best known for introducing...
‘The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic’ Review: The Dream That Died
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoBOOKSHELF In 1872 John Lynch became the first African-American from Mississippi to be elected to the...
Historic black chapel and school in Sharpsburg designated National Historic Landmark
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSHARPSBURG — For most of the American Reconstruction period following the Civil War, a one-room...
Colfax Massacre descendants talk about racial healing on both sides
The Town Talk via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe ancestors of the Rev. Avery Hamilton and Dean Woods were on opposite sides of the Colfax...
Comparing Donald Trump to Jefferson Davis over insurrection and the presidency | Opinion
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBefore the U.S. Supreme Court is whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars certain persons...
When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 10 months agoDemonstrators hold Confederate flags near the monument for Confederacy President Jefferson Davis on...
Juneteenth's fellow emancipations, and what 'freedom' then meant
Kitsap Sun via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first...
Op-Ed: Dobbs isn't the first time the Supreme Court took away key rights
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Supreme Court's rollback of abortion rights echoes the court's 1883 decision to rule...
UT historian's new book on racial justice reckons with 'bitter and beautiful parts'
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor many, the night thousands thronged in Chicago’s Grant Park to celebrate Barack Obama’s win in the presidential election felt like a harbinger of a new phase for the United States. As University ...