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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· 2 days agoIn 1863, as the Civil War raged on, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation ...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 5 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· 5 days agoThis country did pay reparations once, before in 1862, but it was reparations for white enslavers....
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby atop Aristides. His story doesn't end there
The Courier Journal via Yahoo Sports· 6 days agoOn Jan. 1, 1863, when Lewis was 6, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing...
The Bizarre Story Behind How Franklin Pierce Was Accused of Treason
Mentalfloss· 4 days agoIn the fall of 1861, former President Franklin Pierce headed to the Midwest, where he intended to...
Military Book Review The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General,...
Strategy Page· 5 hours agoPulitzer-prize-winning journalist Dean Calbreath gives us a fine biography of Mohammed Ali ben Sa'id (1836-1882). Born into wealth and privilege in the ancient African kingdom of Borno, he might ...
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...
Johnson: We banned ‘divisive concepts.’ So, why do we still have Confederate holidays?
Birmingham News· 5 days agoHow did you commemorate Confederate Memorial Day? Did you invite a few family and friends over, sing...