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Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
Inside Orioles owner David Rubenstein's business ventures with $3.9b net worth
The US Sun· 7 days agoBILLIONAIRE businessman David Rubenstein owns the Magna Carta, the Emancipation Proclamation - and...
The formerly enslaved lawmaker who warned about rewriting Black history
Washington Post· 17 hours agoBorn into slavery on a plantation in Louisiana, he was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in...
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...
I SEE U, Episode 116: America’s Legalized Corruption with Legal Scholar Mehrsa Baradaran | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 1 day agoFast-forward more than 160 years to today, Black households currently have a total wealth of just...
Detroit's Civil War history, uncovered - WDET 101.9 FM
WDET-FM Detroit· 1 day 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 agoOver forty years of neoliberal economic policy have profoundly exacerbated income and wealth inequality especially across racial lines. The crisis of the...
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...
Correcting the record on reparations with Trymaine Lee
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoHe wanted to free enslaved people in the District [Washington, D.C.]. This was a year before the ...
Tourist agency sponsoring Juneteenth speech contest
The Herald, Sharon, Pa. via Yahoo News· 1 day agoApr. 26—FARRELL — A $2,000 Mercer County Tourist Promotion Agency grant aims to motivate youngsters to speak up for Juneteenth celebrations. The grant was awarded to Farrell schools to host ...
