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Column: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoAbortion rights supporters march to the White House to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision to...
6 Massachusetts teens charged in racial bullying incident with mock slave auction on Snapchat
NBC Universal via AOL· 1 month agoSix juveniles in Massachusetts were charged in a racial online bullying incident that involved...
Benefited from slavery? Critics say some of the state’s examples were never even slaves.
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Florida Department of Education faced angry reaction from across the nation this week to new...
16 women abolitionists you may not know about
Stacker via AOL· 3 months agoLibrary of Congress // Getty Images; Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images It is an egregious fact that forced labor has long been a practice in...
Massachusetts unveils bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on...
47 landmark Supreme Court cases that changed American life as we knew it
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 10 months agoMembers of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate...
Juneteenth should be paid holiday in every state
McDonough County Voice via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSunday is Father’s Day, but the day also marks a more important reason to commemorate and celebrate. Sunday is also Juneteenth, a portmanteau word for...
What Is Juneteenth? Everything To Know About the Integral Day in Black History
Parade via Yahoo News· 10 months agoiStock June 19 marks Juneteenth, an extremely important day in Black history in the United...
The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA trade card with printed black type for the domestic slave traders Hill, Ware and Chrisp....
Efforts spotlight slave who inspired beach name, local tale
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn enslaved Black man, the tall tale he inspired and the beach that now bears his name are the focus...
