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Race relations task force in Burlington call its quits without funding or much support
The Journal Times· 2 days agoA task force on improving race relations in Burlington has voted to disband after a three-year...
Col. Lafayette Jones Jr. remembered as instrumental in preserving one of the earliest free Black...
Daily Press· 14 hours agoA cousin of Col. Lafayette Jones Jr. remembered him as a disruptor. Dozens of people attended a...
The Martha Graham School Will Host Teens Dance Graham Program This Month
Broadway World· 20 hours agoThe Teens Dance Graham program will feature some of Martha Graham's great modernist innovations in...
Lara Trump Says RNC Poll Watchers Will ‘Physically Handle The Ballots,’ Which They Are Not Allowed...
Black America Web· 5 days agoLast week, we reported that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said it plans to deploy more than...
Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to blockade Southern ports to state museum
Chicago Sun-Times· 1 day agoOne of the most fateful documents of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency — and in all of American history — will go on public display this week at the legendary Illinoisan’s namesake museum in Springfield ...
Iowa politicians are still trying to teach history to your children
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 days agoRepublicans in the Iowa Legislature are determined to meddle in your kid’s classroom. The House and...
Memphis residents say environmental racism prompted pollution ‘cesspool,' wreaking havoc
USA Today· 2 days agoClarification: This article was updated on May 1, 2024, to specify which substances leaked into the...
Memphis residents say environmental racism prompted pollution ‘cesspool,' wreaking havoc
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThat campaign, which received public support from former Vice President Al Gore and actress-activist Jane Fonda, succeeded. After the ethylene oxide danger surfaced in 2022...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
AOL· 6 days agoOn this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally ...
Military Book Review The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General,...
Strategy Page· 4 days agoPulitzer-prize-winning journalist Dean Calbreath gives us a fine biography of Mohammed Ali ben Sa'id (1836-1882). Born into wealth and privilege in the ancient African kingdom of Borno, he might ...