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97-Year-Old 'Grandmother of Juneteenth' Opal Lee to Receive 8th Honorary Doctorate
People via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoFive years later, on June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden formally signed it into law. "I have to say...
'Elevating Earth Day into a national holiday is not radical — it's practical'
The Week· 3 days ago'Earth Day should be a federal holiday. Earth Day should be a national holiday, says Ariella...
Going to a national park in Texas this summer? Here’s when families get in for free
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoFort Worth’s Opal Lee, 97, is the “grandmother of Juneteenth” and has been instrumental in having...
Trump’s claims of presidential immunity to be probed at U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday
Nebraska Examiner via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoSupreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday over former President Donald Trump’s pursuit of...
Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose.
Washington Post· 3 days agoAlabama state Rep. Juandalynn Givan and other Black lawmakers have lobbied for years to have the...
Pot inmates call out Biden for saying he’d free them ahead of another 4/20 in prison
New York Post· 6 days agoFormer President Donald Trump released some of the most harshly sentenced federal pot inmates on his...
New Jersey man charged with federal hate crime in Rutgers Islamic center vandalism
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCAIR tracked 8,061 complaints in 2023, shattering the previous high of just over 6,700 in 2021. Complaints include immigration and asylum cases, employment discrimination, ...
Eviction filings at 20-year high in Columbus, Franklin County and set to worsen. See why
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoFilings are cyclical, he said, with rises typical after the winter holidays in January and again in...
FBI on alert of possible threats to Jewish community ahead Passover
Fox local via AOL· 6 days agoAt the Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill, being on alert has...former Cherry Hill Police Chief. He was hired to run JFed Security in 2021. Operating from a 2nd floor ...
Johnson: We banned ‘divisive concepts.’ So, why do we still have Confederate holidays?
Birmingham News· 2 days agoHow did you commemorate Confederate Memorial Day? Did you invite a few family and friends over, sing...