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The formerly enslaved lawmaker who warned about rewriting Black history
Washington Post· 1 day agoBorn into slavery on a plantation in Louisiana, he was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
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...
Iowa politicians are still trying to teach history to your children
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe House and Senate passed a bill last week directing the state Department of Education to develop...
Lara Trump Says RNC Poll Watchers Will ‘Physically Handle The Ballots,’ Which They Are Not Allowed...
Black America Web· 2 days agoThe plans were confirmed by the RNC, which announced that attorneys would be stationed at “every...
Finding home: The little-known story of a Black orphanage in southern Colorado
Colorado Springs Gazette· 7 days agoPUEBLO • Black history hides in a dark, dusty bunker on the tumbleweed plains of southeast Colorado...