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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· 7 hours agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 3 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· 3 days agoThis country did pay reparations once, before in 1862, but it was reparations for white enslavers....
The Bizarre Story Behind How Franklin Pierce Was Accused of Treason
Mentalfloss· 2 days agoIn the fall of 1861, former President Franklin Pierce headed to the Midwest, where he intended to...
Opinion: Republicans have become 'de facto White Party' by rejecting multiracial democracy
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe Republican Party, under Abraham Lincoln, brought about the new beginning caused by the Civil...
Opinion: Lincoln saw a future that threatened all that had come before
Hartford Courant· 5 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· 4 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· 5 days agoPUEBLO • Black history hides in a dark, dusty bunker on the tumbleweed plains of southeast Colorado...
Johnson: We banned ‘divisive concepts.’ So, why do we still have Confederate holidays?
Birmingham News· 3 days agoHow did you commemorate Confederate Memorial Day? Did you invite a few family and friends over, sing...
Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose.
Washington Post· 4 days agoAlabama state Rep. Juandalynn Givan and other Black lawmakers have lobbied for years to have the...