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On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
Detroit's Civil War history, uncovered - WDET 101.9 FM
WDET-FM Detroit· 19 hours agoIn 1863, as the Civil War raged on, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation ...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 4 days agoA white family in Atlanta, Georgia today has 46 times as much wealth as a Black family; a racial wealth gap that is exactly the same as it was nationally...
Correcting the record on reparations with Trymaine Lee
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThis country did pay reparations once, before in 1862, but it was reparations for white enslavers....
Opinion: Republicans have become 'de facto White Party' by rejecting multiracial democracy
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Republican Party, under Abraham Lincoln, brought about the new beginning caused by the Civil...
The Bizarre Story Behind How Franklin Pierce Was Accused of Treason
Mentalfloss· 3 days agoIn the fall of 1861, former President Franklin Pierce headed to the Midwest, where he intended to...
Opinion: Lincoln saw a future that threatened all that had come before
Hartford Courant· 6 days agoWhen 28-year-old Illinois state representative Abraham Lincoln felt the need to issue this stern...
Finding home: The little-known story of a Black orphanage in southern Colorado
Colorado Springs Gazette· 6 days agoPUEBLO • Black history hides in a dark, dusty bunker on the tumbleweed plains of southeast Colorado...
Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby atop Aristides. His story doesn't end there
The Courier Journal via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoOn Jan. 1, 1863, when Lewis was 6, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing...