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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...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 6 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...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days 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 agoHe wanted to free enslaved people in the District [Washington, D.C.]. This was a year before the ...
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...
Iowa politicians are still trying to teach history to your children
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoRepublicans in the Iowa Legislature are determined to meddle in your kid’s classroom. The House and...