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The formerly enslaved lawmaker who warned about rewriting Black history
Washington Post· 2 days agoBorn into slavery on a plantation in Louisiana, he was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in...
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...
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...
I SEE U, Episode 116: America’s Legalized Corruption with Legal Scholar Mehrsa Baradaran | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 2 days agoFast-forward more than 160 years to today, Black households currently have a total wealth of just...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 3 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 ...
Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby atop Aristides. His story doesn't end there
The Courier Journal via Yahoo Sports· 7 days agoOn Jan. 1, 1863, when Lewis was 6, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing...
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...
Correcting the record on reparations with Trymaine Lee
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHe wanted to free enslaved people in the District [Washington, D.C.]. This was a year before the ...
Juneteenth icon Opal Lee to receive honorary doctorate from SMU
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth· 7 days agoThe degree will be presented at SMU’s commencement ceremony, May 11. DALLAS — Opal Lee, best known...