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On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
AOL· 3 days agoOn this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm ...
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...
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 ...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 day agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
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....
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· 10 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 ...
Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose.
Washington Post· 6 days agoAlabama state Rep. Juandalynn Givan and other Black lawmakers have lobbied for years to have the...
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...