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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...
Memphis residents blame environmental racism for pollution ‘cesspool'
Gannett via AOL· 3 hours agoCommunity Against the Pipeline, a group formed in 2020 to stop a crude oil pipeline that would have run through Boxtown, a neighborhood established by emancipated slaves and freedmen after the ...
April marks the beginning and end of the American Civil War
Daily Press· 48 minutes agoApril is a good time to explore local sites that focus on the American Civil War, which began on...
Correcting the record on reparations with Trymaine Lee
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 6 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· 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· 3 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
Gannett via AOL· 7 days agoOn Feb. 26, 1865, when Lewis was 8, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing...
Iowa politicians are still trying to teach history to your children
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe House and Senate passed a bill last week directing the state Department of Education to develop...
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...
I SEE U, Episode 116: America’s Legalized Corruption with Legal Scholar Mehrsa Baradaran | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 3 days agoFast-forward more than 160 years to today, Black households currently have a total wealth of just...