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Column: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoAbortion rights supporters march to the White House to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision to...
Free communities offered tenuous grip on safety in era of slavery
The Herald, Sharon, Pa. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 5—The law was passed in Washington D.C., but it set off tremors that shook the ground in Mercer County and destroyed a community. In Washington, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part ...
Adam, blacksmith and champion of freedom, dies without honor of last name | Righting the past
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 11 months agoEditor’s note: This is the thirteenth in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor...
Blue States Can’t Fix What the Supreme Court Broke
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 2 years agoColorado is only one of three states that allows abortion at any phase of pregnancy. It borders five states where the fate of abortion access remains...
Justice Alito's abortion opinion puts America on a path toward further division | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMany Americans may find it increasingly difficult to convince their international peers that the...
First U.S. woman undertaker helped people flee slavery in coffins. Meet Henrietta Duterte
Courier Post via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“I saw my mother raise a man from the dead.” Born enslaved, the man’s only way out of the American...
In the mountains of Northern Mexico, descendants of formerly enslaved people have celebrated...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA woman stands in El Nacimiento de los Negros.Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty...
Interstate abortion travel bans? We're supposed to be a free country, not East Germany.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTens of millions of Americans are too young to remember how repressive regimes clamp down on freedom...
Texas history museum dissects treaty that ended Mexican American War and changed the world
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBe honest: What do you really know about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? The accord that formally...
There's another War Between the States coming over abortion
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Supreme Court’s abortion ruling may set off disputes among states and the federal government...