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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· 1 day 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· 11 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· 7 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· 7 days agoWhen 28-year-old Illinois state representative Abraham Lincoln felt the need to issue this stern...
Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby atop Aristides. His story doesn't end there
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoOn Feb. 26, 1865, when Lewis was 8, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing...
Finding home: The little-known story of a Black orphanage in southern Colorado
Colorado Springs Gazette· 7 days agoPUEBLO • Black history hides in a dark, dusty bunker on the tumbleweed plains of southeast Colorado...