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Sultan Zeshan reveals hidden African American connection to the Kentucky Derby
Rolling Out· 22 hours agoIt's almost time for the Kentucky Derby. Social elites will join horseracing fans for one of the...
Exhibit on emancipation at Williams College powerful, necessary
Albany Times Union· 2 days agoThe anchor is the 1862 executive order by Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation...be then,...
Woodlawn works to remember all who have lived on the historic site
The Fairfax County Times· 6 days ago“The reevaluation of expanding the narrative around Woodlawn stems from our mission to engage with...
Opinion: My family lost the Civil War. Last year they finally gave up this symbol of power
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAnd I’ve often asked myself how Black Americans felt about reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at a...
A Philadelphia Passover Seder, 100 years after the first
Philly.com· 5 days agoJulia and Leon Obermayer hosted their first seder in Philadelphia in 1924, soon after they were...
This Passover, college campuses like mine are caught in a very narrow place
The Forward· 4 days agoPassover, of course, is the holiday of freedom and memory, when we Jews celebrate our exodus from...
Slavery isn’t just a Southern story. The North benefited from stolen labor.
The Christian Science Monitor· 6 days agoIn the years leading up to the Civil War, some of the biggest enslavers in the United States were not Southern plantation owners, as one might expect, but Wall Street bankers. After the Panic ...
70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, Buffalo contemplates legacy of key local players in...
The Buffalo News· 1 day agoSeventy years to the month after the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka...
Southside Community Farm seeking voters for safety
The Blue Banner· 7 days agoAt 6 p.m. tonight, April 24, 2024, at 133 Livingston St, the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville will vote to potentially dismantle the Southside...