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Inside Orioles owner David Rubenstein's business ventures with $3.9b net worth
The US Sun· 4 days agoBILLIONAIRE businessman David Rubenstein owns the Magna Carta, the Emancipation Proclamation - and...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoOver forty years of neoliberal economic policy have profoundly exacerbated income and wealth inequality especially across racial lines. The crisis of the...
Iowa politicians are still trying to teach history to your children
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoRepublicans in the Iowa Legislature are determined to meddle in your kid’s classroom. The House and...
Correcting the record on reparations with Trymaine Lee
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHe wanted to free enslaved people in the District [Washington, D.C.]. This was a year before the ...
Opinion: Republicans have become 'de facto White Party' by rejecting multiracial democracy
Asheville Citizen-Times· 5 days agoThrough it I came to realize that America has experienced not one, but a series, of separate...
For some, voting is more than a civic duty — it’s continuing the fight of their ancestors
Philly.com· 1 day agoLelia G. Johnson, 65, was finished with her primary day duty by 8 a.m. She didn’t actually have to...
Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby atop Aristides. His story doesn't end there
The Courier Journal via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoOn Jan. 1, 1863, when Lewis was 6, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing...
The Bizarre Story Behind How Franklin Pierce Was Accused of Treason
Mentalfloss· 1 day agoIn the fall of 1861, former President Franklin Pierce headed to the Midwest, where he intended to...
Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose.
Washington Post· 3 days agoAlabama state Rep. Juandalynn Givan and other Black lawmakers have lobbied for years to have the...
Juneteenth icon Opal Lee to receive honorary doctorate from SMU
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth· 3 days agoThe degree will be presented at SMU’s commencement ceremony, May 11. DALLAS — Opal Lee, best known...