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Correcting the record on reparations with Trymaine Lee
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoThis country did pay reparations once, before in 1862, but it was reparations for white enslavers....
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 18 hours 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...
Opinion: Republicans have become 'de facto White Party' by rejecting multiracial democracy
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe Republican Party, under Abraham Lincoln, brought about the new beginning caused by the Civil...
Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose.
Washington Post· 2 days agoAlabama state Rep. Juandalynn Givan and other Black lawmakers have lobbied for years to have the...
Opinion: Lincoln saw a future that threatened all that had come before
Hartford Courant· 3 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· 2 days agoOn Feb. 26, 1865, when Lewis was 8, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing...
Johnson: We banned ‘divisive concepts.’ So, why do we still have Confederate holidays?
Birmingham News· 19 hours agoHow did you commemorate Confederate Memorial Day? Did you invite a few family and friends over, sing...
Finding home: The little-known story of a Black orphanage in southern Colorado
Colorado Springs Gazette· 3 days agoPUEBLO • Black history hides in a dark, dusty bunker on the tumbleweed plains of southeast Colorado...
Historian highlights effects of Civil War on modern American democracy
Colorado State Collegian· 7 days ago“When thinking about history, I like to think about archaeology,” Suri said.
Bill adding social studies, civics requirements for Iowa schools headed to governor
Quad-City Times· 7 days agoA bill requiring Iowa schools to adopt new social studies and civics education standards with a...
